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braz96 / skin.mimic

A Kodi skin with touches of reFocus and Aeon Nox.
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Request: allow widgets to be visible at all times #2

Closed spacecowboy closed 9 years ago

spacecowboy commented 9 years ago

Great skin, looks great on my new TV ;)

Would it be possible to allow the "recently added" and "recommended episodes" widgets to always be visible? Right now, one has to press "up" to make them visible.

If you don't want to include it, could you point me to the relevant file? Thanks.

stueeey666 commented 9 years ago

+1 (spacecowboy request) ...also wondered whether the 'in progress' widget can be edited to denote just the number of movies in progress?... currently if I have 2 movies in progress, it duplicates the movie posters several times in order to fill the width of the widget/window. I noticed that the 'Shift View' displays just the 2 posters as intended when viewing from a playlist - do u think this possible? let me know if I have not explained the issue. Thanks.

braz96 commented 9 years ago

spacecowboy -- I just tried adding a setting to always show the widgets. There are a couple issues, one which I couldn't resolve, so I removed the option. I couldn't figure out how to create a transition animation between the various widgets. Also, would need to create a way to show that the widget had focus after pressing up.

If you want to give it a try, the widgets are in IncludesHomeRecentlyAdded.xml. There is currently an animation that hides them when control 8000 doesn't have the focus.

stueeey666 -- That will involve changing the widgets to follow the horizontal list setting, ie allow a fixedlist. Allowing a fixed list would mean I would need to use Container(id).ListItemPosition(-1) to render the previous item for the wraplist. I tried this but couldn't get the animation right.

In both cases, I'm open to pull requests if you can figure out how to make it work well.

spacecowboy commented 9 years ago

@bryanbrazil Thanks for the info. I forked it and tweaked it so it looks good to me. Added some screenshots in the readme as well to demonstrate the changes: https://github.com/spacecowboy/skin.mimic

I won't make a pull request (unless you want me to) because I also disabled the autoscrolling which some might want to keep.

braz96 commented 9 years ago

I'll take a look tonight. If you were able to fix the transition from the music/addon widget to the video one, I'll try to add it. Thanks!

spacecowboy commented 9 years ago

Probably not. For example, there is a very noticeable delay going between TV-shows and Movies, where one has "Recommend episodes" and the other "Recent Movies". But the delay is only present in one direction (seems to be related to menu order?). Since this is also present in Aeon Nox which I used previously, I assumed this was a bug/limitation in Kodi and not in the skins.