[jurialmunkey]

on the horizon skin im for example at the 50th movie in my libary and want to go to the 10th tv show in my libary widget. ive to scroll back the 50 movies, click left go one menu entry down and click right till im at the 10th tv show.

in titan i simply press down and im in the widget of the next menu point.

Can you try out latest github version. I've added an option to show all the widgets together - note, it will disable the categories widget and a few other options.

Skin Settings > Home > Display all widgets together (ungroup widgets)

[chrispe]

Can you try out latest github version. I've added an option to show all the widgets together - note, it will disable the categories widget and a few other options.

Skin Settings > Home > Display all widgets together (ungroup widgets)

Now that widgets are grouped the menus' column is not so important so you can try to hide it like the the submenus do

[Sheepish]

Also, you don't need to scroll back through all the widget items, you should be able to press back to return to the start

Hi Jurial,

I know I asked about this before and yes this is very handy, except I almost always have music playing in Kodi and pressing back goes straight to the now playing visualisation. Would it be possible to find a workaround somehow, just for me? Maybe "back" to visualisation could only work from first widget item, or even only when the sideblade is open? Or maybe an option to disable it entirely and I'd add a "Now Playing" item to the sideblade?

[jurialmunkey]

Can you try out latest github version. I've added an option to show all the widgets together - note, it will disable the categories widget and a few other options.

Skin Settings > Home > Display all widgets together (ungroup widgets)

Now that widgets are grouped the menus' column is not so important so you can try to hide it like the the submenus do

Sorry, I don't quite understand what you mean? Are you talking about Icon only mode, because that's still there (you just have to scroll down in Skin Settings > Home to see it now because the extra option pushed it off the page).

Also, you don't need to scroll back through all the widget items, you should be able to press back to return to the start

Hi Jurial,

I know I asked about this before and yes this is very handy, except I almost always have music playing in Kodi and pressing back goes straight to the now playing visualisation. Would it be possible to find a workaround somehow, just for me? Maybe "back" to visualisation could only work from first widget item, or even only when the sideblade is open? Or maybe an option to disable it entirely and I'd add a "Now Playing" item to the sideblade?

I really wish it was possible. I run into the exact same problem. Unfortunately, kodi overrides the back action on the home screen when something is playing, so I have no control over it in that instance. If I could, I would have it work exactly like you are describing (only go to visualisation when on the sideblade). The best I've been able to do is have back from the visualisation always open the side blade when returning home - that way you can press back twice to get back to the home menu (once to vis, and again to the home menu).

[chrispe]

i'm talking about the icons menu column. Displaying all widgets together we can navigate through the widgets without the need of the icons menu. So you can try to hide it like the submenus do and if someone wants to reappear the menu all that he  has to do is to navigate all the way to the left. I hope i was more explanatory now

[Joe23rep]

hi jurial, maybe you could help me customizing the skin a bit.

first off: font size. could you point me to the direction in which folder i can find the settings?

and second of:

i really love the skin and its pretty much my favorite skin i use on all my devices but theres one feature which lets me switch back to titan skin (netflix style). the posibiliy to scroll down threw the widgets.

on the horizon skin im for example at the 50th movie in my libary and want to go to the 10th tv show in my libary widget. ive to scroll back the 50 movies, click left go one menu entry down and click right till im at the 10th tv show.

in titan i simply press down and im in the widget of the next menu point.

is there an easy way for me to edit the code that ill get this "fluid" way to scroll threw widgets?

thanks in advance

Fonts are all defined in the Font.xml file in the 1080i folder of the skin.

The widgets work significantly differently from Titan so there isn't an easy way to edit the code and change it like this. I'll have a look and see if I can work something out which gives a type of "unified" widget view. EDIT: I've added an option on the latest github version. Skin Settings > Home > Display all widgets together.

You do realise that you can set multiple widgets per menu item though right? If you are using 8 or less widgets overall, then you can replicate the layout for every menu item (I know its a bit tedious to do, but you can do that if you want).

Also, you don't need to scroll back through all the widget items, you should be able to press back to return to the start

thanks man. Really appreciate all your efforts.

yeah- i knew that i can have 8 widgets per menu item. i usually have 2 to 6 per menu point.

the trick with clicking back was new to me though.

ill try out the lastest git right now. sounds awesome

edit: tried it. works great for me.

again - thanks for your effort

[jurialmunkey]

@chrispe - ah ok I see what you are saying now. Unfortunately that would pretty much require a complete redesign of the skin. All the spacing of elements is based upon the bar being there - way too much work for an option that isn't the default setting.

[Joe23rep]

ok- after testing it a bit i found a few things.

first of the icons now dont work.

ive 8 menu points with at least 2 widgets per menu.

so ive to scroll threw all widgets to get to the one i want.

and second: the layout of the widgets breaks down if u have different layouts (landscape, poster). instead of the screen showing one poster and one landscape it shows half poster, full landscape and half poster from the next menu entry.


you dont have too put in too much work now. in my stupid mind i thought u basically programmed a barrier at the end of the widgets and i thought u simply Show me how to remove that barrier.

but now i see it requires a lot so if u personally dont really want to have such a feature id totally understand if u dont want to put in hours of reworking the skin for a feature probably not many people would use anyways.

[jurialmunkey]

ok- after testing it a bit i found a few things.

first of the icons now dont work.

ive 8 menu points with at least 2 widgets per menu.

so ive to scroll threw all widgets to get to the one i want.

and second: the layout of the widgets breaks down if u have different layouts (landscape, poster). instead of the screen showing one poster and one landscape it shows half poster, full landscape and half poster from the next menu entry.

you dont have too put in too much work now. in my stupid mind i thought u basically programmed a barrier at the end of the widgets and i thought u simply Show me how to remove that barrier.

but now i see it requires a lot so if u personally dont really want to have such a feature id totally understand if u dont want to put in hours of reworking the skin for a feature probably not many people would use anyways.

No, I think it is a good feature to have, so I would like to iron out the bugs.

I can't reproduce the problem you are having with layouts. Mixing widget layouts works fine for me.
Can you PM me your script-skinshortcuts-includes.xml (from the 1080i folder in the skin) - this will let me see your exact layout and I can try reproduce the problem.
A screenshot of the issue would also be useful.

I'm not sure if moving the widgets based upon the menu position is going to be possible. I'm pretty sure in Titan it doesn't work like that either - you would have had to scroll through all the widgets there too. I'll have a look at this a bit later today and see if I can get something working for it.
EDIT: Actually, I just tried out a quick idea I had for changing the widget position based upon main menu position and surprisingly it actually works! On latest git version.

[Joe23rep]

icons now work.  

the layout mistake is still there.

i included a Screenshot and will pm you the folder.

[jurialmunkey]

@Joe23rep - oh I see what you mean now. This is intentional and has always been like this. It has nothing to do with widget aspect/layout. It's only to do with where you are in the widget group - if you aren't on the first or last widget in the list the positioning will be in the middle to show that you can scroll up and down. Sorry this won't change (and it involves rewriting the widgets completely to get the positioning to work differently - so way too much work to make optional)

[jdig4240]

I just gotta say the option to ungroup widgets is awesome! For whatever reason, the widgets seem to load MUCH faster like this. Instead of them loading each time I scroll down the main menu. They all load at once and is faster than ever. Good stuff!  So with that being said however the main menu items seem less useful, because when I scroll through the main menu items on the left it doesnt focus the widget group for that tab. Is it possible to focus that group of widgets for the main menu tabs if I decide to scroll through the main tabs on the left AND have the option of ungrouped widgets? Or am I being greedy now?, LOL. So, I love how I can just browse all the widgets at once, but would also be ideal to be able to jump to a main menu item and focus the widget for that group also. Or would that trigger the widget reloading like it does without ungrouped widgets. Anyways, love it.
Another thing I just wanted to point out if anybody else experienced this but I had a hard time figuring out why this skin was constantly crashing and closing Kodi for me on my Nvidia shield, I spent alot of time trying to diagnose the error logs and enabling and disabling addons to figure out the cause, but it seems I narrowed it down to to the TV Show Next aired addon. For whatever reason disabling this stopped all the issues I was having with force closing. Not sure why, but worked for me. 
Anyways, im diggin this skin, THANK YOU!

[jurialmunkey]

I just gotta say the option to ungroup widgets is awesome! For whatever reason, the widgets seem to load MUCH faster like this. Instead of them loading each time I scroll down the main menu. They all load at once and is faster than ever. Good stuff!  So with that being said however the main menu items seem less useful, because when I scroll through the main menu items on the left it doesnt focus the widget group for that tab. Is it possible to focus that group of widgets for the main menu tabs if I decide to scroll through the main tabs on the left AND have the option of ungrouped widgets? Or am I being greedy now?, LOL. So, I love how I can just browse all the widgets at once, but would also be ideal to be able to jump to a main menu item and focus the widget for that group also. Or would that trigger the widget reloading like it does without ungrouped widgets. Anyways, love it.
Another thing I just wanted to point out if anybody else experienced this but I had a hard time figuring out why this skin was constantly crashing and closing Kodi for me on my Nvidia shield, I spent alot of time trying to diagnose the error logs and enabling and disabling addons to figure out the cause, but it seems I narrowed it down to to the TV Show Next aired addon. For whatever reason disabling this stopped all the issues I was having with force closing. Not sure why, but worked for me. 
Anyways, im diggin this skin, THANK YOU!

Thanks. Glad you like it!

Yeah the widgets only load when they become visible -- when they are grouped, they only become visible when that particular main menu item is focused so that is why they all load at once when ungrouped.

Can you make sure you have the very latest git version, as I made a change late yesterday that should move the widgets focus depending on where you are in the main menu. Please download latest git and let me know if it is working properly -- also, note that the focus will have the widget centered on the screen for every menu item except the first.

Odd about the crashing being related to Next Aired. I haven't encountered this problem, but I guess my setup is different (LibreElec on an old small form factor pc running an Intel Core 2 Quad).

[jdig4240]

Thanks. Glad you like it!

Yeah the widgets only load when they become visible -- when they are grouped, they only become visible when that particular main menu item is focused so that is why they all load at once when ungrouped.

Can you make sure you have the very latest git version, as I made a change late yesterday that should move the widgets focus depending on where you are in the main menu. Please download latest git and let me know if it is working properly -- also, note that the focus will have the widget centered on the screen for every menu item except the first.

Odd about the crashing being related to Next Aired. I haven't encountered this problem, but I guess my setup is different (LibreElec on an old small form factor pc running an Intel Core 2 Quad).

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Ok, will do. About the Next aired, I think i take that back. Still getting crashes, cant pinpoint much from the logs. Another odd thing im noticing is when editing the skin shortcuts, widgets. I edit the names, etc, click save correctly, back out and changes are shown correctly on the home screen, but when I go back in to edit something else again, the old text before i edited the text is still showing, but it shows correctly on the home screen.

[jurialmunkey]

@jdig4240 - yeah I've seen the issue with the labels not changing in the customisation screen before. Its the skin shortcuts add-on which handles the dialog, so nothing much I can do about it I'm afraid. I'm not sure quite what conditions make it happen, but as long as the changes actually apply to the home screen then I'm not to concerned about it (I'm sure the bug will get addressed eventually, its just that the skin shortcuts author is currently very busy so it might take a while to see fixes for these more superficial bugs).