11-29-2021, 05:12 AM
(11-28-2021, 04:39 AM)wibble Wrote: How easy is it to fork a kodi skin to add a back button? I've not tried, so for all I know there are gotchas along the way.Thanks, sadly I didnt see a way to insert a back/backspace into a customized skin.
https://kodi.wiki/view/Skinning_Manual#Button_Control
If it could be made configurable, or autodetect whether to show the button, an existing theme might accept a patch. Some themes have turned down similar requests as they consider it out of scope though ("We target remote controls. If you're using a mouse then pick a different theme." and similar)
I hate to follow down the android style route but maybe hacking together a custom keyboard map for multimedia remote controls as a KB option, but then there would be a way to easily control kodi.
There would still be the issue of using up most of the battery with a 1 hour video, same problem if I can coerce VLC to play a video; the stock Totem based Videos player in Mobian has never played a video for me so remains untested, but years ago Totem was one of the first apps I would uninstall. I suspect this is due to CPU vs GPU decoding of the stream.
