✨ Widgets that show for all categories

[RentreX]

Skin section

Home Widgets

Feature description

Having an option for a widget to be displayed at the end of category widgets once you set up the widget in the hub.

Why is this feature needed? Please justify and explain.

A widget like Recently Played TV shows currently needs to be added to each category.

Having a feature that would only need to be added once would make setting up the home screen a bit easier and quicker.

Screenshots and Additional Info

I think that it was possible in a past update that you could have a widget set in a hub that no matter which category you were in it would still show that widget at the bottom.

It was in the customise menu -> widgets. But now there is only a option for categories which means there is no way to have a widget to display on each category without added it multiple times.

Checklist

• I have made a separate issue for each feature I am requesting.
• I have searched the issues and this feature has not been requested.
• I am using the most recent skin version.

[rapteev]

Hi
I also find this feature very useful.
It would be nice if we could have this for all menu items. Much easier to setup.
Thank you

[jurialmunkey]

@rapteev @RentreX

I've been looking into this feature. There's not really a way to combine individual widgets with global ones in the same grouplist but I'm still keen to somewhat implement this feature.

There's basically two ways I could take it:

1. A group of widgets which adds its widgets to the end of every category individually.
2. A group of widgets which overrides the widgets in the category.

First is the more flexible and convenient approach in terms of setup but downside is loading performance because the "global" widgets in each category will actually be clones that each need to load individually.

Second approach is less flexible in terms of setup but will perform much better in terms of loading times since the widgets will actually be global and not just cloned into each category. I think it should still be possible to have adaptive submenu widgets with this approach but not certain yet.

What are your guys thoughts? Is the second approach enough? Because obviously loading performance is preferable but there's no point adding a feature if it isn't actually going to be useful too!

[rapteev]

Hi Jurialmunkey

Personally I think that performance is very important so I’d say the second approach.
If possible also have adaptive submenu widgets the better if not no problem.
I have to say it again, great great work on this skin Jurialmunkey. I can only imagine all the hard work you have so all of us can enjoy.
Thank you very much

[jurialmunkey]

Progress so far and still to do:

• Global widget group for home screen in classic mode
• Global widget group per hub for categories
• Adaptive widgets for submenus when global widget group is enabled