2011-11-11, 14:58
Most (all?) of these changes are easily available in mad-max's Horizontal Confluence Modded, but I like to do things manually so I can tweak the skin piece by piece. Here is a guide for anybody who also wants to make these changes on their own. I hope some or all of these changes will be incorporated into the final skin.
Reminder: If you make the changes to the skin.confluence folder in your XBMC folder, you will lose the changes when installing a new XBMC nightly! It is recommended to first copy skin.confluence to your addons folder, give it a new name, and make the changes there.
Restore shutdown menu icons
Basically you just need to reverse the changes that were made here: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/a339...cd97e25d85
Find DialogButtonMenu.xml in your skin.confluence/720p folder, and replace it with the one from Dharma: https://raw.github.com/xbmc/xbmc/bfb1eea...onMenu.xml
Then download each of the shutdown icons from https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/a339...d85#diff-2 and place them in your skin.confluence/media folder.
Remove XBMC Logo
The XBMC logo is in Home.xml under skin.confluence/720p, in the control beginning on line 34 (search for "LOGO", and it starts above there).
To remove it, change line 42 to "<visible>false</visible>".
(You can also just delete the control. But I prefer to change the visible tag so you can easily change it back.)
Lower the menu bar
The menu bar is in Home.xml under skin.confluence/720p, in the control beginning on line 438 (search for "HomeSubMenuCommonValues", and it starts above there).
To lower the menu bar, change the <posy> value on line 439. I use "<posy>550</posy>"
Remove the dark background when music is playing
The background is in Home.xml under skin.confluence/720p, in the control beginning on line 46 (search for HomeNowPlayingBack, and it starts above there).
To remove it, change line 53 to "<visible>false</visible>".
Remove the home screen controls when media is playing
The media controls are in Home.xml under skin.confluence/720p, in the control beginning on line 285 (search for "Controls for currently playing media", and it starts above there).
To remove it, change line 289 to "<visible>false</visible>".
Reminder: If you make the changes to the skin.confluence folder in your XBMC folder, you will lose the changes when installing a new XBMC nightly! It is recommended to first copy skin.confluence to your addons folder, give it a new name, and make the changes there.
Restore shutdown menu icons
Basically you just need to reverse the changes that were made here: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/a339...cd97e25d85
Find DialogButtonMenu.xml in your skin.confluence/720p folder, and replace it with the one from Dharma: https://raw.github.com/xbmc/xbmc/bfb1eea...onMenu.xml
Then download each of the shutdown icons from https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/a339...d85#diff-2 and place them in your skin.confluence/media folder.
Remove XBMC Logo
The XBMC logo is in Home.xml under skin.confluence/720p, in the control beginning on line 34 (search for "LOGO", and it starts above there).
To remove it, change line 42 to "<visible>false</visible>".
(You can also just delete the control. But I prefer to change the visible tag so you can easily change it back.)
Lower the menu bar
The menu bar is in Home.xml under skin.confluence/720p, in the control beginning on line 438 (search for "HomeSubMenuCommonValues", and it starts above there).
To lower the menu bar, change the <posy> value on line 439. I use "<posy>550</posy>"
Remove the dark background when music is playing
The background is in Home.xml under skin.confluence/720p, in the control beginning on line 46 (search for HomeNowPlayingBack, and it starts above there).
To remove it, change line 53 to "<visible>false</visible>".
Remove the home screen controls when media is playing
The media controls are in Home.xml under skin.confluence/720p, in the control beginning on line 285 (search for "Controls for currently playing media", and it starts above there).
To remove it, change line 289 to "<visible>false</visible>".