sorry for being a little thick here but im looking to get the picons on the recordings info as above but i dont understand what i need to do with the above file to get it to work i initiall thought i just copied all the data in the XML into the skin_ViXBMC_1080_Common.xml file over the top of the old eventview section but that just put my box into a constant boot loop
The problem you had is typical if when the Skin .xml cannot parse - ViX will crash. The good news is that the E2 box will be still up, and you can FTP to it still and undo the change you made.
Anyway as @Willmoore said, any skin_user file must be placed in the
/etc/enigma2 folder, and the naming convention must be as per the Skin name - the file name should be exactly the name as posted, including upper and lower case.
With skin_user .xml files you can customise screens of the main skin - the skin_user file gets read last. In this case the code just changes some eventview references.
More good news is that @Rossi will be incorporating a fix for this issue shortly, so the skin_user will not be needed.
As @Willmoore also said, any/all skin file changes require a
GUI restart.
Finally, it is never a good idea to change the master skin files in usr/share/enigma2 as the files are overwritten each time you perform an update
Summary:
1. Make sure you are using the .xml file from post #7
2. Make sure you unzip the file and keep the same name exactly when you unzip
3. The fix is only for Confluence skin
4. The file must be placed in /etc/enigma2 folder
Good Luck, and I hope this helps