[bsoriano]

Hello all,

Just wanted to post some updates on the rewrite of the menu system with skinshortcuts.  As of right now, you can totally customize the menu and submenus, meaning adding, moving, deleting, renaming any menu option, as well as having an unlimited number of menu items.  You can disable menu options without deleting them, and you can choose a single image or multi-image for the background for each menu option.  You can also choose fanart from a video playlist as a multi-image background.

Also, since you can reorder the menu however you like, you can choose what menu option the skin starts in (it just needs to be the third menu option).

With these changes it is no longer necessary to have skin settings to enable/disable each menu option.  Also, if you want to go back to the default menu/submenu, you can do so as well.

My next big task is doing the shelves (widgets) with skinshortcuts.  This, for me is the most difficult.  It still might be a couple of weeks before I can actually get this done.

Given the difficulty, I have a question for you:

Would you be willing to trade having up to six shelves as we have right now for having up to two (the two could be shown at the same time, kind of like the Jarvis shelves), but totally customizable, like the menu/submenu?  Please let me know your thoughts on this.  Thanks.

Regards,

Bart