[mikeSiLVO]

The weather background is whatever you set in the backgrounds section, so if it's prarie or multi, you choose Weather background for the main menu item.
It seemed easier to choose one weather background for everything...

Feel free to report anything. I'm touching so many files that I may easily miss something

[kurai]

he weather background is whatever you set in the backgrounds section, so if it's prarie or multi, you choose Weather background for the main menu item.
It seemed easier to choose one weather background for everything...

OK - I can live with having one selection for Home & window.
Can't seem to make Home-Weather follow the setting from SkinSettings->Backgrounds->Weather->Default however.

Tried the following:-
1.








2.






What am I getting wrong ? 

[mikeSiLVO]

I may have broken it when cleaning up the properties skin shortcuts adds when building the menu. I’ll have a look in a few hours or so.

If you revert the last cleanup change it should work.

[kurai]

I may have broken it when cleaning up the properties skin shortcuts adds when building the menu. I’ll have a look in a few hours or so.

If you revert the last cleanup change it should work.

No worries - I'll leave it at the current commit for the moment, and copy the diff over when you get around to it.

While I remember to say it - Oh   My   God.  Skin Shortcuts is *such* a fantastic customisation tool.  How did I not notice/use this with a compatible skin for the last 10 years ? 

[kurai]

@mikeSiLVO Fix home weather background: da56b3 did the trick.  Selectable & works as intended now. 

Also - found that tiny spacing thing I mentioned earlier:

In Customize Main Menu - selected item->Change action
First item in the subsequent dialogue malformed :-





Incidentally - what is supposed to populate the Smart shortcuts selection ?  It's always empty for me.

EDIT:
It's not just the first item - spacing is off for all the entries in sub-folders in that dialogue (e.g. Common, Video Library, Music Library etc.)

[mikeSiLVO]

Should be fixed with latest commit.

Nothing should populate that, it’s supposed to be disabled with the defaultwidgetsgetmore set to false in overrides.xml. Do you have skin helper installed?

EDIT: I’m half right, it is Skin Helper Service being installed but I can fix that showing by making menu groupings.

I’ll push a commit in a few minutes.

[kurai]

I do have script.skin.helper.service (1.1.43) installed, if that's the one you mean.
That empty Smart shortcuts selection appears whether the add-on is enabled or not.

[mikeSiLVO]

The skin shortcuts script doesn't use addonisenabled for displaying that. If installed, regardless of enabled/disabled, it will show that entry but I am providing all the shortcuts now in the overrides so it won't appear anymore with the latest changes.

[kurai]

Ah, OK. Is the Skin.helper.service now a defunct thing that should be uninstalled, or should I leave it place (for other skin usage, perhaps) and let this skin work around it's existence?

[Karellen]

Hi @mikeSiLVO,

Wondering if there is some duplication. It seems there are two locations to set the background images for menu items....

[kurai]

@Karellen
The top one is for within the window launched by the main menu button, the bottom one is for the Home screen when you have navigated to that button.

Example:-

Window background setting




Home screen menu item setting

[Karellen]

@Karellen
The top one is for within the window launched by the main menu button, the bottom one is for the Home screen when you have navigated to that button.

Oh, ok. I didn't notice.
Thanks.

[Mordred]

Loving the recent changes, plus the new Roboto font! Looking excellent. The Event Log Settings shortcut is kinda genius. Weather widget also is super useful.

I've got two remaining issues that I would love to see fixed if possible:

1. The Recently Added Movies widget playlist(?) sorts the movies alphabetically as opposed to by date added. I assumed it had stopped working and wasn't adding new movies from the library, but it was they're just at the bottom of the list. Changing this to sort by date added (most recent first) would be a big improvement. The TV show episodes added version does do this correctly, so always the most recent shows in the library are shown at the top.
   
2. I think Ronie might have broken this sometime between the version I was last using for Kodi 17, and whenever he stopped maintaining it, but pressing the shortcut for "next subtitle" while a movie was playing used to show a menu of all subtitles the film had and then you could easily scroll between them to select the one you want. Now next subtitle just goes to the next subtitle and it's impossible to tell if one is for SDH, forced, until you've selected it. This is kind of a big problem when you've got some film from a streaming site that has 25 different subtitle languages and you have to advance through each one because you hit the button to go from Forced to SDH because you couldn't understand a line of dialog.
   

I also mentioned previously that season fanart wasn't working properly. I might dig into Ronie's old codebase to see if I can figure out how to get that working again.

[kurai]

@mikeSiLVO When switching between regular Transparency & SS_edition I noticed a small customization I'd added and forgotten about - a handful of media flags for newer codecs etc.
Hope they are useful.

./media/flags/movies/audiocodec
opus.png


./media/flags/movies/resolution
8K.png


./media/flags/movies/videocodec
av1.png

vp9.png

vvc.png


And also a template for adding anything else that's missing or turns up in future (it was a PITA dealing with a colour and opacity gradient fill background, so now no-one else has to suffer modifying an existing filled image )
template.png


Bundled here: Google Drive share - flags.zip (30k)


EDIT:
Damnit - I happened to search the Git for media flag, looking for something else, and saw a reference to a pre-existing mediaflag.png that I must have skipped past it a hundred times in the file-tree without noticing.
This turns out to be @ronie 's original blank template frame and is, naturally, a much cleaner source.
*sigh*  That's an hour of my life wrestling with image editing software I'll never get back.  Aaaaaanyway ...
It's at ./media/mediaflag.png

[kurai]

Follow-up:
Here's the list of codecs from my Kodi library - if anyone has seen a peculiar and/or new media format, pipe up if you think it needs a flag.

Video codecs:
SELECT distinct(strVideoCodec) FROM streamdetails



av1

div3

dx50

flv

flv1

h264

hevc

mpeg1video

mpeg2video

mpeg4

mpeg-4 visual

msmpeg4

msmpeg4v2

msmpeg4v3

rv20

rv30

rv40

svq3

vc1

vp6f

vp8

vp9

wmv1

wmv2

wmv3

Audio codecs:
SELECT distinct(strAudioCodec) FROM streamdetails



aac

aac_latm

ac3

ac-3

adpcm_ima_qt

adpcm_ima_wav

adpcm_ms

adpcm_swf

cook

dca

eac3

flac

mp1

mp2

mp3

mp3float

mpeg audio

opus

pcm_alaw

pcm_s16be

pcm_s16le

pcm_u8

sipr

truehd

vorbis

wmapro

wmav1

wmav2

wmavoice