[Klojum]

Hi people,

Ever since I got a 21:9 ultrawide monitor in front of me, I knew that Kodi should have a 21:9 skin as well. Sadly, none of the other current Helix skins have support for ultrawide screens. So there is only one solution: do it yourself, which resulted in this topic. These are my first steps on the subject of skinning, so bear with me.

I have made a copy of all Confluence files (Helix 14.1, compiled 30 Jan 2015), and renamed it to Konfluence for now.
The default '720p' subfolder has been renamed to '21x9'

I adjusted part of the addon.xml file's default setting to this:

PHP Code:

<extension>
    point="xbmc.gui.skin"
    defaultthemename="textures.xbt"
    debugging="false"
    effectslowdown="0.75">
    <res width="2560" height="1080" aspect="21:9" default="true" folder="21x9" />
</extension> 


Furthermore, I have replaced all possible 1280x720 setting combinations in all the xml files with 2560x1080 settings, plus a few additional minor tweaks. And so, this is the current status:



My initial list of questions is as follows:

1- How to get the main menu bar to stretch fully to the right side of the screen
2- How to center all main menu items on the main bar, and also to stretch the items' widths a bit (due to space requirements when using other languages)
3- How to center the The top movie & tv show thumbnails to the width of the screen.
4- How to get all top movie & tv show thumbnails on display in one go, meaning all 8 thumbs without having to scroll
5- How to have all video addon shortcuts centered to the width of the screen (can I add/user more than 5 shortcuts?)

All secondary screens seem to work fine for now, although they are not optimized for the new screen size just yet.

So, can anyone help me out here?

[Mudislander]

It's more of what you've been doing eg: playing with all the <width>*****</width> tags. I'd suggest starting at the top of home.xml and work your way down looking into all the <include>*****</include> tags as you go along - It's a big job

[Klojum]

I already had a feeling it would be something like that. I just wondered if the main menu bar isn't a graphic with a fixed 1300px or so width, since that would complicate things a little bit.

So the main menu bar layout is only part of home.xml? Not something else as well?
Okay, deep breaths then. :-)

[pouipsch]

Hi Klojum,

I'm interested in trying this out if you're still working on it, is it available to download from somewhere ... also what hardware is your Kodi installed on?

Cheers!