2019-04-04, 03:53
(2019-04-03, 16:23)Alanon Wrote: @rajones007 Yup, custom play-lists are the way to go for proper control of widgets. Regarding QuickNav, my initial intent was to add more shortcuts for mouse users to ease up the navigation process throughout the skin, because it really wasn't designed for use with a mouse. Then, since the menu had potential, I worked out a system to make it appear as intuitively as possible for remote (and hopefully touch) users as well.Thank you very very much. I really don't know what else to say. You've been very helpful and I appreciate how you spelled it out for me.
Bottom line is, the menu is hidden in various places, but not universally accessible. Homepage springs to mind. With a mouse it is always accessible if you move the cursor all the way up and loiter there for about half a second. If you're not a mouse user, the way you reach it is to call the regular library sub-menu (M should activate it on most keyboards, it does on mine), and then press (arrow) up from there.
If you don't have access to the sub-menu directly, through a remote or keyboard key-press (which is highly unlikely, since the sub-menu is a core Kodi feature), you can still navigate to it using some form of arrow or d-pad. For example, in most vertical, list-based views, pressing right (arrow) will call the sub-menu, and you go up from there. Most other views have some way of going through the motions and getting to the sub-menu manually.
However, this approach means that if you're in a window where the sub-menu is not accessible by default, then you won't be able to navigate to the QuickNav menu, even if it might still be available with a cursor call. It's a compromise, to be sure, but the best one I could work out in an already developed and well-cluttered interface.
I got the QuickNAV menu to show up finally, after playing around with it. The only way I can get to it is M and UP key, and it shows up in yellow. I couldn't move anywhere in it for a couple minutes (odd, it was like it was thinking), but eventually it let me move left and right with ease The pointer on my LG Magic Remote does not bring it up, even if I move the pointer to the top of the screen. Same with the touchpad on my Microsoft wireless keyboard. There's only certain screens where it's available though, and the homepage is not one of them.
It doesn't matter though Alanon, I don't want to take up any more of your time. I'm sure you have better things to do. I thought I was missing out on some wonderful feature, but after I toyed with it for a while I come to realize I have my KODI Eminence menus and such set up in an efficient manner and I've grown accustomed to it. So much so that I really don't have any need for QuickNAV. Using just my keyboard and remote I can whip around the menus like a bat out of hell.
Keep up the good work on this lovely skin. I periodically check out the other skins and they aren't even in the same ballpark as Eminence. Not one.