Improving widgets in OSMC skin

Feature Requests
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Hello,

I am not sure if this is related to OSMC or Kodi itself, but I figured I’d write this here.

I would like to make a small suggestion for the widget system. I use the OSMC skin on Kodi on Linux.

I have two movie sources - one for internet livestreams (.strm files), one for actual movie files. These are assigned to two different menu items in the main menu.

If I assign the widget for either menu item to display just that source (namely: Videos > Sources > Video source example > Use as widget), the only available option under Artwork in the widget menu becomes Icon. The result is the following and it doesn’t look very appealing - I normally use posters here.

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I suggest expanding the pool of available artwork for separate video sources to at least Poster and Fanart.

Thank you!

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The selectable artwork option is simply passing down what Kodi provides for that content. If the content isn’t scraped to the library or it isn’t selected via a path that’s a library path, everything falls back to icons in Kodi. The script responsible for our customization options, and thus for your own widgets, follows that logic AFAICT.

Maybe the switch to skin shortcuts script v3 (together with Kodi v22 on OSMC) will bring about some changes here, but I can’t tell at this point.

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Thank you for the reply!