2017-04-19, 02:19
I'm running Kodi 17.1 under win10 in an Intel NUC to view local content on my TV. I'm not sure if Kodi is the right application for this, but it comes pretty darn close to want I want. I don't find the library features useful, so I just use kodi to navigate the file structure of my local content (using a bluetooth mouse, or the touchpad of my bluetooth keyboard).
I find the default skin (Estuary) quite pleasant. I only enable two main menu items (Video & Favorites) and I like how my four Media sources appear as soon as I hover over the "Videos" main menu item. My only complaint is that the font is so large I can see only about 13 items in a folder, but most of my folders have 40 to 80 items, so it gets kind of tiring need to scroll all the time.
I tried other skins, and found that they were all awful until I came to Transparency which has a nice simple look. The font is smaller which is good since now I can see about 23 items at once. But as I said, most of my folders are bigger than that, so I still need to do a lot of scrolling. The frustrating thing is that Transparency is only using 1/4 of the screen to display the folder items. The rest of the screen is pretty much blank. This seems like a shame to waste so much useful space. If I could get it to use 3 or 4 columns I would hardly ever need to scroll.
Is there a way to edit Transparency so that it can display more files or folders in the video section? If not, are there any other skins that can do what I want? Since what I want to do is relatively simple, perhaps there are windows applications other than Kodi that would be more suited to navigating and playing local content?
Any suggestions you have will be much appreciated, no matter how farfetched
Thanks.
~Paul
I find the default skin (Estuary) quite pleasant. I only enable two main menu items (Video & Favorites) and I like how my four Media sources appear as soon as I hover over the "Videos" main menu item. My only complaint is that the font is so large I can see only about 13 items in a folder, but most of my folders have 40 to 80 items, so it gets kind of tiring need to scroll all the time.
I tried other skins, and found that they were all awful until I came to Transparency which has a nice simple look. The font is smaller which is good since now I can see about 23 items at once. But as I said, most of my folders are bigger than that, so I still need to do a lot of scrolling. The frustrating thing is that Transparency is only using 1/4 of the screen to display the folder items. The rest of the screen is pretty much blank. This seems like a shame to waste so much useful space. If I could get it to use 3 or 4 columns I would hardly ever need to scroll.
Is there a way to edit Transparency so that it can display more files or folders in the video section? If not, are there any other skins that can do what I want? Since what I want to do is relatively simple, perhaps there are windows applications other than Kodi that would be more suited to navigating and playing local content?
Any suggestions you have will be much appreciated, no matter how farfetched
Thanks.
~Paul
