2019-02-24, 15:46
@Althenwolf Hello and welcome! You're correct in that PVR features are the least-developed part of most third-party skins, including this mod. It's very difficult to add useful or new features to a segment that I don't use personally. The only thing at my disposal is a demo PVR client with very little options, that's always going to look ugly. Estuary, as the official skin, has been developed from the ground up by extremely talented people to be versatile and perfectly capable for all uses of Kodi, and will always hold this advantage. That being said, I'm not against adding new features or tweaking existing ones as long as they make sense from a functional and design perspective. By this point, both the original Eminence and this mod have design staples and quirks that I have to work around. Some things simply involve much more work than meets the eye, and oftentimes I risk having to overhaul several systems just to add one new option that at the surface level seems simple to implement.
This is a wider point, not aimed at you directly. I simply get many requests through PMs and by the folks in this thread for different kinds of feature adjustments that have far-reaching consequences for other parts of the skin, and risk breaking different things that I'd have to fix along the way. Most of the tweaks I've made to the PVR interface have been just that - small, cosmetic and functional additions to the existing interface that weren't going to break anything else. I don't mean to come off as an ass**le, only to adjust peoples' expectations. I do the best I can without resorting to a complete overhaul of the systems, simply because I lack the time necessary to tend to everything that my fumbling around might break. As I've said, this doesn't have anything t do with you personally, it just seemed like an appropriate place to express my view on the matter.
Now, from what you've mentioned in the thread, it seems to me that you've made exactly the kind of small, functional and practical tweaks that don't go against the skins' design or seem to impact anything else. If you like, send me a PM with some more information about your adjustments, and we'll continue the conversation from there.
This is a wider point, not aimed at you directly. I simply get many requests through PMs and by the folks in this thread for different kinds of feature adjustments that have far-reaching consequences for other parts of the skin, and risk breaking different things that I'd have to fix along the way. Most of the tweaks I've made to the PVR interface have been just that - small, cosmetic and functional additions to the existing interface that weren't going to break anything else. I don't mean to come off as an ass**le, only to adjust peoples' expectations. I do the best I can without resorting to a complete overhaul of the systems, simply because I lack the time necessary to tend to everything that my fumbling around might break. As I've said, this doesn't have anything t do with you personally, it just seemed like an appropriate place to express my view on the matter.
Now, from what you've mentioned in the thread, it seems to me that you've made exactly the kind of small, functional and practical tweaks that don't go against the skins' design or seem to impact anything else. If you like, send me a PM with some more information about your adjustments, and we'll continue the conversation from there.