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yes that answers it. thanks!

Welcome  

sorry for my questions, but is there a home menu building settings within the skin settings? were you can entrances on the home menu and add widgets to the home menu? (similar to aura and arctic zephyr). so you can build your menus with the remote control from your shield tv.

or do you need to go in the backbone data files with a text editor to do so? 

You do this from within Kodi in the skin settings no need editing XML files
Steps
>Go to "Settings"
>"Skin"
>"Home Menu"
>"Customize main menu"
>You can add a new menu item for this addon (the one you want to create widgets for) and its widgets or use an existing menu. In my screenshot above I used an existing menu called progams.
>"Set type of widgets" for the menu item you added or selected above.
>"Widgets to personalize"
>Select "Lists (upto 8 items)" I find it better than "Vertical panel (1 item)
>Give it a name
>Click on "Select widget 1" just below the new name you created above
>Scroll down the list until you find "Add-on >"
>Choose from "Program>" or from  "Video add-on>" etc depending on what type of addon you want to create the widget for. The Youtube addon for example is a video addon so I selected Video add-on. If your addon is a music addon select Music add-on instead.
>You will find a list of addons you have installed, select the one you want to create widgets for
>You will find a list of possible widgets from this addon.
>To use all of them select click the plus sign "+ use as Widget".