[the_other_guy]

Hi

I'm trying to setup an Anime Movies main menu item with the widgets displaying only items from that source.
I've messed around with Library Node and smart playlists.

I can create the item on the menu, and clicking it does as intented, titles of movies from the node.
The issue is when its selected, I want the categories and widgets to appear, but only for that node.

Preconfigured widgets > Movies, shows all the movies.

Personalize Categories widget doesn't work how I thought it would work.
Video Library > AnimeNode > Recently added. This shows all recently added to movies...

Is this possible to setup in Estuary Mod?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many of these requests follow a similar generic pattern.
Have your own main menu items, which when selected result in a set of "rows of icons" on the main screen, which when selected do some kind of search - which can be done via smarlists, node editor, or both.
Then you want to assign your own icons for these things.

The problems appear to be that you can only assign icons to nodes, not to playlists.
Also, if you add a playlist row, and it has 20 items, you will have 20 scrolling off the screen, instead of a 5x4 layout for example.

Nodes allow custom icons, you can set the hierarchy to match your navigation needs, you can get them to display the results of playlists etc...
So that seems to be the primary way one could do this.

However as it's not possible to navigate between rows on custom main menu items, I am stuck.

So, I believe, that's how to do it, and why it doesn't currently work.

Given the skin mods are done free in peoples' own time, it feels a bit churlish to push for fixes. (of course so is Kodi...)
However I do think the main menu customization elements could be incorporated into kodi - main
 

 the thing is that nodes need to be linked to full xml eg. mymovies.xml this mod can only link to mymovies

a work around is to change a widget
edit home.xml

<include content="WidgetListPoster" condition="Library.HasContent(movies) + !Skin.HasSetting(hide_recentlymovies)">
<param name="content_path" value="$VAR[HideWatchedMoviesFromRecentlyVar]"/>
<param name="widget_header" value="$LOCALIZE[20386]"/>
<param name="widget_header_focus" value="$INFO[Container(5100).ListItem.Title, | ]$INFO[Container(5100).ListItem.Year, (,)]"/>
<param name="widget_target" value="videos"/>
<param name="list_id" value="5100"/>
</include>

delete condition="Library.HasContent(movies) + !Skin.HasSetting(hide_recentlymovies)"
$VAR[HideWatchedMoviesFromRecentlyVar] change to library://video/movies/node.xml
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=344593 https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=345420