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<blockquote data-quote="elliottmc" data-source="post: 862331" data-attributes="member: 14268">Well, right now, if you have colours in skinsettings.xml, these override the ones that the user has set. So in effect, you have defined the behaviour that different skins will have different genre colours.&nbsp;This becomes more of a problem if the user does not want the genre names that you have chosen. In that case, the names in skinsettings.xml will not relate to the genres in mediaportal.xml - maybe I am not understanding things if this is not correct.&nbsp;Your comment about the genre names being the same I guess applies to my server and all of my network clients. However, users in different countries may want to have genre names in their own language.&nbsp;Perhaps the simple solution is to have the defined genre names that you have now, and to not be able to add any more. Anyway, more genres than this would just be confusing for most people.&nbsp;At least this way, you could add these as strings in the various language files, so that they are automatically localised.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;My thought is that you could add a button in config to import the settings from the skin. This would then replace the colours in MediaPortal.xml. However, colours in MediaPortal.xml should always over-ride those in the skinsettings.xml. At least this way, if the user wants to use the skin colours, they can click on one button, and then they can edit things if needed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="elliottmc, post: 862331, member: 14268"] Well, right now, if you have colours in skinsettings.xml, these override the ones that the user has set. So in effect, you have defined the behaviour that different skins will have different genre colours. This becomes more of a problem if the user does not want the genre names that you have chosen. In that case, the names in skinsettings.xml will not relate to the genres in mediaportal.xml - maybe I am not understanding things if this is not correct. Your comment about the genre names being the same I guess applies to my server and all of my network clients. However, users in different countries may want to have genre names in their own language. Perhaps the simple solution is to have the defined genre names that you have now, and to not be able to add any more. Anyway, more genres than this would just be confusing for most people. At least this way, you could add these as strings in the various language files, so that they are automatically localised. My thought is that you could add a button in config to import the settings from the skin. This would then replace the colours in MediaPortal.xml. However, colours in MediaPortal.xml should always over-ride those in the skinsettings.xml. At least this way, if the user wants to use the skin colours, they can click on one button, and then they can edit things if needed. [/QUOTE]

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