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Custom views in Amber skin in 1.2.0
Posted: 19 Jan 2016, 14:18
by RealUser
Is it possible to edit the skin.xml via filebrowser to setup Ambers Custom-Items(Favourits, Playlists) in CustomPath node?
If yes, what is the the correct path-syntax for it?
Re: Custom views in Amber skin in 1.2.0
Posted: 19 Jan 2016, 14:29
by davilla
skin.xml is inside the app, read-only. it cannot be 'edited'
Re: Custom views in Amber skin in 1.2.0
Posted: 20 Jan 2016, 17:16
by RealUser
sorry, i mean
settings.xml in skin.amber.
special://profile/addon_data/skin.amber/settings.xml
in this, there are customPath nodes:
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<setting id="CustomHome.1.Background" type="string"></setting>
<setting id="CustomHome.1.Path" type="string"></setting>
<setting id="CustomHome.1.Label" type="string">Neu</setting>
Re: Custom views in Amber skin in 1.2.0
Posted: 17 Mar 2016, 20:18
by RealUser
Does anyone knows how to setup this?
Custom Views is the only thing for me, i'am missing in mrmc.
THX
Re: Custom views in Amber skin in 1.2.0
Posted: 18 Mar 2016, 03:31
by amet
We use slightly modified version of Amber, but I don't think that we removed these options if they were in skin settings.
Do you know where the settings are in original skin?
Re: Custom views in Amber skin in 1.2.0
Posted: 22 Mar 2016, 14:50
by RealUser
In Kodi they are in guisettings.xml
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<skinsettings>
<setting type="string" name="skin.amber.CustomHome.1.Label">CUSTOMTITLE</setting>
<setting type="string" name="skin.amber.CustomHome.1.Background"></setting>
<setting type="string" name="skin.amber.CustomHome.1.Path">PlayMedia("special://profile/playlists/video/neu-komplett.xsp",return)</setting>
...
</skinsettings>
In the settings there are menu-editing options in "home-menu" in the original amber-skin.
Unfortunately i can't find the special://profile/addon_data/skin.amber/settings.xml anymore in the current version of MRMC.
Re: Custom views in Amber skin in 1.2.0
Posted: 22 Mar 2016, 17:04
by amet
that was removed as we do not support any Addons and rest relies on python(I think)
Re: Custom views in Amber skin in 1.2.0
Posted: 25 Mar 2016, 13:10
by RealUser
This has nothing to do with addons.
In these settings you can place favourites. For me it's important to get my playlists (favourites) to the mainmenu.
That's possible with original amber. I need this for my kids. they should se a menuentry for animation-movies.
You can disable or remove the addon-entry. But please let us customize the mainmenu with our favourites.
thx
Re: Custom views in Amber skin in 1.2.0
Posted: 25 Mar 2016, 14:41
by davilla
RealUser wrote:This has nothing to do with addons.
In these settings you can place favourites. For me it's important to get my playlists (favourites) to the mainmenu.
That's possible with original amber. I need this for my kids. they should se a menuentry for animation-movies.
You can disable or remove the addon-entry. But please let us customize the mainmenu with our favourites.
thx
it has everything to do with addons, you might not realize but skins can leverage python addons to do things and fetch information. The addon.xml in the skin shows these very things.
https://github.com/jester-xbmc/skin.amb ... /addon.xml
addon="script.favourites"
addon="service.skin.widgets"
those are python based.
Re: Custom views in Amber skin in 1.2.0
Posted: 25 Mar 2016, 21:55
by RealUser
You're absolutely right, i don't realize this. I thought, Amet means the "Add-Ons"-entry in the screenshot.
If it's impossible to customize (favs/playlists) the mainmenu in amber, perhaps there's another skin without the need auf python, to set up something like this.
thx