Remove/Hide Add-ons-button

The skin will probably change between now and the Eden release. Post when Eden is released and I'll give you instructions for modifying the skin. It's a two minute job!

JR

(2012-02-26 19:28)Silver Fang Wrote:  Is there any way to remove the "add-on" below the picture-video-music on the mainscreen of the confluence skin ??

Thanks

(2012-02-26 20:08)jhsrennie Wrote:  The skin will probably change between now and the Eden release. Post when Eden is released and I'll give you instructions for modifying the skin. It's a two minute job!

JR

Hi again,
Can someone please help me to remove the add-on button ??
Thanks

Assuming you've installed XBMC in the default location you need to look in the directory "C:\Program Files\XBMC\addons\skin.confluence\720p" for a file called IncludesHomeMenuItems.xml. make a backup of this file. Now go to http://swarchive.ratsauce.co.uk/xbmc/, right click the IncludesHomeMenuItems.xml link, choose "Save as" and save it over the top of the old IncludesHomeMenuItems.xml. Run XBMC and you should find the add-ons links are gone.

If you're curious to see how this is done open the file in Notepad and search for <!--. This is the XML comment tag and you'll find it where I've commented out the code that adds the add-ons menu items.

JR

Thanks alot.

Now my last thing i want to remove,
the icon on the left side of the power-button, the favourite-icon, is that possible, then how ??

Thanks for all the help

To remove the Favourites button you need to modify Home.xml. I've placed a modified version of this on http://swarchive.ratsauce.co.uk/xbmc/.

Could you please remove the "Files" below Videos and Music on the mainscreen, like you did with "add-on" ??

I have looked at the .xml-file but cant edit it.

Thanks for the help

I've updated IncludesHomeMenuItems.xml on http://swarchive.ratsauce.co.uk/xbmc/ to remove the Files options.

JR

Thanks so much jhsrennie for all the help.
Now i got a simple, nice and clean xbmc.

I use "Confluence skin".
-Turned off the navigation sound.
-Turned off "RSS News Feeds".
-Turned off "Add Source-button in file lists", after first adding my internal hdd as source.
-Hide Programs.
-Hide Weather.
-Hide Weather Info.
-Removed "Files" and "Add-ons" in main-menu that shows under videos and music and "Favourite-icon" left of the power-button.
Replaced the Home.xml and IncludesHomeMenuItems.xml-files in xbmc-addons-skin.confluence-720p,
with the ones jhsrennie edited.
-Removed "Add-ons-button" that shows in music, videos and pictures menu, like this:
Press Windows-R and in the Run dialog type:
notepad "%APPDATA%\XBMC\userdata\advancedsettings.xml"
click OK and when Notepad prompts you to create a new file, answer "Yes".
Now copy and paste the following into Notepad:

<advancedsettings>
<virtualshares>false</virtualshares>
</advancedsettings>

Close Notepad and save the changes.
Now run XBMC and you should find the "Add-ons" link has gone.

Thanks

Cool, I'm glad you have everything looking the way you want. Note that if an update to the Confluence skin is released it will overwrite the changes to the skin files, so you should keep a copy of Home.xml and IncludesHomeMenuItems.xml somewhere safe.