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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1158573" data-attributes="member: 109222"><p>Hi.</p><p>With an external Editor (means by editing the "MediaPortal.UiComponents.BlueVision.Settings.MenuSettings.xml") you can remove a group completely from being shown. Only exception is the group "Others". This group always is visible and here are all items shown that are not part of any other group... So if you don't use TV inside MP2 the TV group easily can be removed by deleting those lines in "MediaPortal.UiComponents.BlueVision.Settings.MenuSettings.xml":</p><p>[CODE=XML] <GroupItemSetting></p><p> <Name>[Menu.TV]</Name></p><p> <Id>e32bbacf-56c6-406e-9576-ea68271f053c</Id></p><p> </GroupItemSetting></p><p>[/CODE]</p><p></p><p>but not the individual links like MultiEPG, Schedules,... that are defined by those lines:</p><p></p><p>[CODE=XML] <PairOfGuidGridPosition></p><p> <Key>7d68c459-ee9b-4eaa-ae2c-c2c365139aee</Key></p><p> <Value></p><p> <Row>3</Row></p><p> <RowSpan>3</RowSpan></p><p> <Column>11</Column></p><p> <ColumnSpan>5</ColumnSpan></p><p> </Value></p><p> </PairOfGuidGridPosition>[/CODE]</p><p></p><p>If you remove this Tag the corresponding entry will be shown in "Others" then...</p><p></p><p>I've successfully tried this for my personal setup already. E.G. I've removes the "Videos" Tile from the Mediahub Group as I prefer "Browse Media" a lot over "Videos". </p><p></p><p>What I don't tried yet is if it works to add a completely new group here. (Would be great if this works). And I also would like to have is an option to add views and/or filters directly to the group. E.G. I have created a group called "Series". In this group I like to have tiles "All", "Recently added", "Unwatched",... Each of those tiles leads directly to the corresponding view... It's nearly the same as the "Hyperlink Parameter" option available in MP1 Skin Engine. That is a great thing for an individual and flexible menu structure, something I really liked about MP1. </p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't see this as a waste of time. I'm absolutely sure I'm not the only one who likes complex configuration options in an external tool rather than in GUI. Imho one of the worst things on Kodi is the absence of an external configuration tool to bundle all the options easy usable at one place. Kodi is a configuration nightmare, and MP2 is heading into the same direction, if anything needs to be inside the GUI... Some options that are (more or less) used daily (like e.g. trigger a manual refresh of a share, change the skin or theme,...) are great to be done from inside the GUI. But others like entering the credentials to access the NAS or editing the database are better be done in an external tool. Generally spoken, if the work is done with a few clicks, it better can be done inside the GUI. But if it is a more complex work (like editing a menu structure or a database) this better can be done in an external tool with mouse/keyboard...</p><p></p><p>So in the long term I nevertheless want to write an external tool to configure MP2 from outside with mouse and keyboard... But before this we first need to have the HTTP server replaced by Owin so it's possible to edit the ML and settings without the need to fiddle with the Database files directly (as it is now), the main reason why MP2-Edit is not developed any further as it is now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1158573, member: 109222"] Hi. With an external Editor (means by editing the "MediaPortal.UiComponents.BlueVision.Settings.MenuSettings.xml") you can remove a group completely from being shown. Only exception is the group "Others". This group always is visible and here are all items shown that are not part of any other group... So if you don't use TV inside MP2 the TV group easily can be removed by deleting those lines in "MediaPortal.UiComponents.BlueVision.Settings.MenuSettings.xml": [CODE=XML] <GroupItemSetting> <Name>[Menu.TV]</Name> <Id>e32bbacf-56c6-406e-9576-ea68271f053c</Id> </GroupItemSetting> [/CODE] but not the individual links like MultiEPG, Schedules,... that are defined by those lines: [CODE=XML] <PairOfGuidGridPosition> <Key>7d68c459-ee9b-4eaa-ae2c-c2c365139aee</Key> <Value> <Row>3</Row> <RowSpan>3</RowSpan> <Column>11</Column> <ColumnSpan>5</ColumnSpan> </Value> </PairOfGuidGridPosition>[/CODE] If you remove this Tag the corresponding entry will be shown in "Others" then... I've successfully tried this for my personal setup already. E.G. I've removes the "Videos" Tile from the Mediahub Group as I prefer "Browse Media" a lot over "Videos". What I don't tried yet is if it works to add a completely new group here. (Would be great if this works). And I also would like to have is an option to add views and/or filters directly to the group. E.G. I have created a group called "Series". In this group I like to have tiles "All", "Recently added", "Unwatched",... Each of those tiles leads directly to the corresponding view... It's nearly the same as the "Hyperlink Parameter" option available in MP1 Skin Engine. That is a great thing for an individual and flexible menu structure, something I really liked about MP1. I don't see this as a waste of time. I'm absolutely sure I'm not the only one who likes complex configuration options in an external tool rather than in GUI. Imho one of the worst things on Kodi is the absence of an external configuration tool to bundle all the options easy usable at one place. Kodi is a configuration nightmare, and MP2 is heading into the same direction, if anything needs to be inside the GUI... Some options that are (more or less) used daily (like e.g. trigger a manual refresh of a share, change the skin or theme,...) are great to be done from inside the GUI. But others like entering the credentials to access the NAS or editing the database are better be done in an external tool. Generally spoken, if the work is done with a few clicks, it better can be done inside the GUI. But if it is a more complex work (like editing a menu structure or a database) this better can be done in an external tool with mouse/keyboard... So in the long term I nevertheless want to write an external tool to configure MP2 from outside with mouse and keyboard... But before this we first need to have the HTTP server replaced by Owin so it's possible to edit the ML and settings without the need to fiddle with the Database files directly (as it is now), the main reason why MP2-Edit is not developed any further as it is now. [/QUOTE]
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