2018-11-11, 13:42
(2018-11-11, 11:25)MM10 Wrote: Thanks. I think that would be an improvement if it could be applied to individual menu items. With regard to the filename displayed in the widget info is there a way to hide the file extension? I have file extensions turned off in Library/General but they still display here.
I'm not sure what you mean here. You can already set up any folder of images as a background for any individual menu, and it will return hi-res images in a slideshow. The backgrounds selected only need to be a set of images in a folder, there's no need for them to be scraped to the picture library. There are also settings that prefer those images to ordinary widget backgrounds. What I meant was that "fixing" the picture widget in the way I described will have a similar end result - a slideshow of images that you can't really control, and wondered if that renders the picture widget somewhat obsolete, because all you'd have in that case was a list of thumbnails that did not scroll in tandem with the backgrounds.
With regards to the extension, no dice, it seems. I've tried several different ListItem handles (Label, FileName, FileNameAndPath, Title, Label2, and a few others) to try to control the filename display. In all those cases, when the picture name actually showed up, the extension was also there, regardless of any Kodi setting. I took another look at some other skins, just in case I missed something obvious, it would seem that anything related to picture handling in Kodi is hardcoded to full filepath logic, and not Kodi library or any of its features. All of the implementations I looked at displayed the extension, when the image name was displayed at all, that is. All in all, it seems to be one of those quirks deeply embedded in Kodi.