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Might have found a bug:
Scrolling sideways on the "cast" and "more like this" widgets in the movie information and TV show information screens displays the circle in the lower left corner.
It only seems to happen when viewing the info screen in the library views, not on the home screen.
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Also related to the skin helper widget. It won't stop updating. Just ignore it. I will replace this widget with my own source anyway.
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Thanks for the detailed feedback and suggestions. See my replies below.
Top menu bar:
-> Not possible
Cast widget:
-> It's a issue of ExtendendInfo script. No to workarounds for bugs which aren't caused by a skin. I'm also annoyed by it, but I only have limited control about the busy spinner.
Kiosk mode:
-> Since the side panel is a navigation element and has nothing to do with settings -> Nope. That's a personal preference.
-> Same applies to the media info things
Movie info screen:
-> Would be no problem, but since Kodi only supports one set per movie I don't see any benefit of it. I'll think about it.
TV/Movie information screen:
-> Emby favourit tihng: Requires addon support. I'll talk to Angelblue.
Genres:
-> Already on my list, but will only work for Leia.
Widgets:
-> No to "see more" because of several technical reasons. And it's not possible for all things.
-> I have no control of the focus
Episode view:
-> Nope. Personal preference.
Theme:
-> Nope. Personal preference.
Favourits:
-> Nope. Personal preference.
Rating:
-> I have no Trakt rating access. I'm also thinking about dropping the skin helper rating support. The addon is not really maintained anymore and full of bugs.
Context menu:
-> Kodi and plugin handled. And personal prefence.
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Ooh trakt integration would be awesome.. at least just to be able to view user created watchlists would be a cool feature to see on the skin or even in the emby add-on when you talk to angelblue?
Hate the fact that some questionable 3rd party add ons seem to be the only way to do this within Kodi ATM. I remember the trakt.tv list add-on that used to work with extended info and worked really well with library content that was in a user watchlist.... but that's no longer working or being developed due to trakt changing their verification protocols. Last I checked it was on the back burner until someone could pick it up to develop.
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2018-09-20, 15:00
(This post was last modified: 2018-09-20, 15:00 by sualfred.)
The Emby addon is responsible for Emby. And the Trakt plugin for Emby is only able to sync the watched states. So this will never happen.
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Nope. That's the default behaviour of Kodi for addon sources.
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Possible breaking change:
During speed penalties and the unmaintained status of the skin.helper.widgets scripts I've decided to learn some Python and made my own little helper script (thx to Angelblue05 for helping me out)
The skin now requires the script script.embuary.helper, which should be automatically installed.
Another important thing is that I have removed the TOP250 widgets. That could cause issues with your existing widget configurations. If you are facing troubles please reset the widgets of the broken hubs.
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2018-09-25, 20:56
(This post was last modified: 2018-09-25, 20:57 by sualfred.)
Sortletter will never work outside of the media windows.
The similar widgets are based on a random item of the recently watched items. It takes two of the available genres (like action and drama) and gives you a random unwatched result of other items in the database which are having the same genres.
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That's all good, but will it ever be hidden on the other screens?
It's really helpful in the library view, but not really doing much in the information screens since it's just showing the first letter of the movie or episode/tv show when you scroll through the widgets.
Nice, I like it. Really impressive work.
Will you bring the "more like this" widget to TV shows as well, or will this be a movie only thing?