OSMC skin usability

[sam_nazarko]

@rjalex

I’m a little puzzled as to why some settings are under settings while others are under my OSMC, just as an example I’d love to have the network setting under the former and not the latter.

See

OSMC Release Candidate 2 is here

The reason is simply that the OSMC settings are written as a Kodi addon, and Kodi doesn’t provide any way for us to add an addon within the standard Kodi Settings menu. I think it is possible (I’m not a skin developer) to fake it by customising the skin, but this would only work for the OSMC skin and not for any other skin that the user might switch to, and is likely to break for future versions of Kodi and keep needing tweaking to keep it working with newer Kodi versions. (poor maintainabilit…

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