diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index f0895a1..4a86e9a 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -405,3 +405,18 @@ Version 0.6.2
 
 Version 0.6.3
 
+- implemented horizontal menus
+  For displaying horizontal menus with VDR <= 2.2.x a VDR 
+  patch is required (see /patches/vdr-2.2.0_horizontal_menu.patch 
+  in the plugin source directory). Without this patch the keys 
+  left/right and up/down are not toggled in horizontal menus. 
+  With VDR >= 2.3.1 this patch is not needed anymore.
+- added possibility to add conditions to <menuitems> elements
+- added possibility to define a viewelement several times with
+  different conditions
+- added "string" skin setup parameter with multiple options
+- added "valign" option in <drawtextbox>. If the box height is set
+  and the text does not need the complete height, with valign="center"
+  the text can be placed horizontally centered inside the box borders.
+- implemented optional horizontal main-, recordings- and 
+  weatherforecast menu in metrixhd
diff --git a/README b/README
index ddbb10b..99e5abd 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -34,8 +34,13 @@ Requirements
 
 - libcurl
 
-- for scaling the video picture to fit into the VDR menu window please use
-  softhddevice plugin revision 87c1c7be (2013-01-01) or newer.
+- softhddevice plugin revision ec58e456 (2015-06-13) or newer. With older
+  versions shifting does not work properly
+
+- For displaying horizontal menus with VDR <= 2.2.x a VDR patch is required 
+  (see /patches/vdr-2.2.0_horizontal_menu.patch in the plugin source directory)
+  Without this patch the keys left/right and up/down are not toggled in
+  horizontal menus. With VDR >= 2.3.1 this patch is not needed anymore.
 
 - epgsearch Git since commit ba7c6277 (2013-01-03) to correctly replace the
   schedules menu with epgsearch
diff --git a/displaymenu.c b/displaymenu.c
index ea589cb..2e78793 100644
--- a/displaymenu.c
+++ b/displaymenu.c
@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ void cSDDisplayMenu::SetMenuSortMode(eMenuSortMode MenuSortMode) {
     rootView->SetSortMode(MenuSortMode);
 }
 
+eMenuOrientation cSDDisplayMenu::MenuOrientation(void) {
+    if (!doOutput)
+        return moVertical;
+    return rootView->MenuOrientation();
+}
+
 void cSDDisplayMenu::SetPluginMenu(string name, int menu, int type, bool init) {
     pluginName = name;
     pluginMenu = menu;
diff --git a/displaymenu.h b/displaymenu.h
index 5b697b4..5aee6d1 100644
--- a/displaymenu.h
+++ b/displaymenu.h
@@ -4,6 +4,15 @@
 #include "libtemplate/template.h"
 #include "views/displaymenurootview.h"
 
+#if defined(APIVERSNUM) && APIVERSNUM < 20301
+#ifndef MENU_ORIENTATION_DEFINED
+enum eMenuOrientation {
+    moVertical = 0,
+    moHorizontal
+};
+#endif
+#endif
+
 enum eViewState {
     vsInit,
     vsMenuInit,
@@ -32,6 +41,7 @@ public:
     virtual void Clear(void);
     virtual void SetMenuCategory(eMenuCategory MenuCat);
     virtual void SetMenuSortMode(eMenuSortMode MenuSortMode);
+    virtual eMenuOrientation MenuOrientation(void);
     virtual void SetPluginMenu(string name, int menu, int type, bool init);
     virtual void SetTitle(const char *Title);
     virtual void SetButtons(const char *Red, const char *Green = NULL, const char *Yellow = NULL, const char *Blue = NULL);
diff --git a/dtd/displayaudiotracks.dtd b/dtd/displayaudiotracks.dtd
index b4b0c59..e4abd21 100644
--- a/dtd/displayaudiotracks.dtd
+++ b/dtd/displayaudiotracks.dtd
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
   align (left|top|center|bottom|right) #IMPLIED
   menuitemwidth CDATA #IMPLIED
   numlistelements CDATA #REQUIRED
-  orientation (horizontal|vertical) #REQUIRED
+  orientation CDATA #REQUIRED
 >
 
 <!ELEMENT listelement (areacontainer|area|areascroll)*>
diff --git a/dtd/displaymenu.dtd b/dtd/displaymenu.dtd
index 0569d42..ecbc374 100644
--- a/dtd/displaymenu.dtd
+++ b/dtd/displaymenu.dtd
@@ -418,7 +418,8 @@
   menuitemwidth CDATA #IMPLIED
   determinatefont CDATA #IMPLIED
   numlistelements CDATA #REQUIRED
-  orientation (horizontal|vertical) #REQUIRED
+  orientation CDATA #REQUIRED
+  condition CDATA #IMPLIED
 >
 
 <!ELEMENT listelement (areacontainer|area|areascroll)*>
diff --git a/dtd/displaymenuplugin.dtd b/dtd/displaymenuplugin.dtd
index 1f9560f..168d047 100644
--- a/dtd/displaymenuplugin.dtd
+++ b/dtd/displaymenuplugin.dtd
@@ -18,46 +18,55 @@
 
 <!ELEMENT background (areacontainer|area|areascroll)*>
 <!ATTLIST background
+  condition CDATA #IMPLIED
   debug CDATA #IMPLIED
 >
 
 <!ELEMENT header (areacontainer|area|areascroll)*>
 <!ATTLIST header
+  condition CDATA #IMPLIED
   debug CDATA #IMPLIED
 >
 
 <!ELEMENT datetime (areacontainer|area|areascroll)*>
 <!ATTLIST datetime
+  condition CDATA #IMPLIED
   debug CDATA #IMPLIED
 >
 
 <!ELEMENT message (areacontainer|area|areascroll)*>
 <!ATTLIST message
+  condition CDATA #IMPLIED
   debug CDATA #IMPLIED
 >
 
 <!ELEMENT colorbuttons (areacontainer|area|areascroll)*>
 <!ATTLIST colorbuttons
+  condition CDATA #IMPLIED
   debug CDATA #IMPLIED
 >
 
 <!ELEMENT scrollbar (areacontainer|area|areascroll)*>
 <!ATTLIST scrollbar
+  condition CDATA #IMPLIED
   debug CDATA #IMPLIED
 >
 
 <!ELEMENT detailheader (areacontainer|area|areascroll)*>
 <!ATTLIST detailheader
+  condition CDATA #IMPLIED
   debug CDATA #IMPLIED
 >
 
 <!ELEMENT tablabels (areacontainer|area|areascroll)*>
 <!ATTLIST tablabels
+  condition CDATA #IMPLIED
   debug CDATA #IMPLIED
 >
 
 <!ELEMENT menuitems (listelement,currentelement?)>
 <!ATTLIST menuitems
+  condition CDATA #IMPLIED
   x CDATA #REQUIRED
   y CDATA #REQUIRED
   width CDATA #REQUIRED
@@ -65,7 +74,7 @@
   align (left|top|center|bottom|right) #IMPLIED
   menuitemwidth CDATA #IMPLIED
   numlistelements CDATA #REQUIRED
-  orientation (horizontal|vertical) #REQUIRED
+  orientation CDATA #REQUIRED
 >
 
 <!ELEMENT listelement (areacontainer|area|areascroll)*>
@@ -75,6 +84,7 @@
 
 <!ELEMENT currentelement (areacontainer|area|areascroll)*>
 <!ATTLIST currentelement
+  condition CDATA #IMPLIED
   delay CDATA #REQUIRED
   fadetime CDATA #IMPLIED
   debug CDATA #IMPLIED
diff --git a/dtd/functions.dtd b/dtd/functions.dtd
index 85ef1f5..7b08437 100644
--- a/dtd/functions.dtd
+++ b/dtd/functions.dtd
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@
   width CDATA #REQUIRED
   height CDATA #IMPLIED
   align (left|center|right) #IMPLIED
+  valign (top|center|bottom) #IMPLIED
   maxlines CDATA #IMPLIED
   floatwidth CDATA #IMPLIED
   floatheight CDATA #IMPLIED
diff --git a/dtd/setup.dtd b/dtd/setup.dtd
index d56fc40..15f1928 100644
--- a/dtd/setup.dtd
+++ b/dtd/setup.dtd
@@ -13,10 +13,11 @@
 <!ELEMENT parameter (#PCDATA)>
 <!ATTLIST parameter
   name NMTOKEN #REQUIRED
-  type (int|bool) #REQUIRED
+  type (int|bool|string) #REQUIRED
   min NMTOKEN #IMPLIED
   max NMTOKEN #IMPLIED
   displaytext CDATA #REQUIRED
+  options CDATA #IMPLIED
   >
 
 <!ELEMENT token (trans)+>
diff --git a/libcore/skinsetup.c b/libcore/skinsetup.c
index e52ff41..c9ae7bd 100644
--- a/libcore/skinsetup.c
+++ b/libcore/skinsetup.c
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #include "skinsetup.h"
 #include "../config.h"
 #include "../libtemplate/xmlparser.h"
+#include "../libcore/helpers.h"
 
 // --- cSkinSetupParameter -----------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -10,7 +11,17 @@ cSkinSetupParameter::cSkinSetupParameter(void) {
     displayText = "";
     min = 0;
     max = 1000;
-    value = 0; 
+    value = 0;
+    options = NULL;
+    optionsTranslated = NULL;
+    numOptions = 0;
+}
+
+cSkinSetupParameter::~cSkinSetupParameter(void) {
+    if (numOptions > 0 && options && optionsTranslated) {
+        delete[] options;
+        delete[] optionsTranslated;
+    }
 }
 
 void cSkinSetupParameter::Debug(void) {
@@ -19,9 +30,16 @@ void cSkinSetupParameter::Debug(void) {
         sType = "bool";
     else if (type == sptInt)
         sType = "int";
-    dsyslog("skindesigner: name \"%s\", type %s, displayText \"%s\", Value %d", name.c_str(), sType.c_str(), displayText.c_str(), value);
+    else if (type == sptString)
+        sType = "string";
+    dsyslog("skindesigner: name \"%s\", type %s, displayText \"%s\", Value: %d", name.c_str(), sType.c_str(), displayText.c_str(), value);
     if (type == sptInt)
         dsyslog("skindesigner: min %d, max %d", min, max);
+    if (type == sptString && options) {
+        for (int i=0; i < numOptions; i++) {
+            dsyslog("skindesigner: option %d: %s, translated: %s", i+1, options[i], optionsTranslated[i]);
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 // --- cSkinSetupMenu -----------------------------------------------------------
@@ -88,7 +106,7 @@ void cSkinSetupMenu::InitIterators(void) {
     subMenuIt = subMenus.begin();
 }
 
-void cSkinSetupMenu::SetParameter(eSetupParameterType paramType, string name, string displayText, string min, string max, string value) {
+void cSkinSetupMenu::SetParameter(eSetupParameterType paramType, string name, string displayText, string min, string max, string value, string options) {
     cSkinSetupParameter *param = new cSkinSetupParameter();
     param->type = paramType;
     param->name = name;
@@ -100,8 +118,26 @@ void cSkinSetupMenu::SetParameter(eSetupParameterType paramType, string name, st
     if (max.size() && paramType == sptInt) {
         param->max = atoi(max.c_str());
     }
+
     param->value = atoi(value.c_str());
 
+    if (paramType == sptString) {
+        splitstring o(options.c_str());
+        vector<string> opts = o.split(',', 1);
+        int numOpts = opts.size();
+        if (numOpts > 0) {
+            param->numOptions = numOpts;
+            param->options = new const char*[numOpts];
+            int i=0;
+            for (vector<string>::iterator it = opts.begin(); it != opts.end(); it++) {
+                string option = trim(*it);
+                char *s = new char[option.size()];
+                strcpy(s, option.c_str());
+                param->options[i++] = s;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     parameters.push_back(param);
 }
 
@@ -185,7 +221,7 @@ void cSkinSetup::SubMenuDone(void) {
     }
 }
 
-void cSkinSetup::SetParameter(string type, string name, string displayText, string min, string max, string value) {
+void cSkinSetup::SetParameter(string type, string name, string displayText, string min, string max, string value, string options) {
     if (!type.size() || !name.size() || !displayText.size() || !value.size()) {
         esyslog("skindesigner: invalid setup parameter for skin %s", skin.c_str());
         return;
@@ -195,12 +231,14 @@ void cSkinSetup::SetParameter(string type, string name, string displayText, stri
         paramType = sptInt;
     } else if (!type.compare("bool")) {
         paramType = sptBool;
+    } else if (!type.compare("string")) {
+        paramType = sptString;
     }
     if (paramType == sptUnknown) {
         esyslog("skindesigner: invalid setup parameter for skin %s", skin.c_str());
         return;
     }
-    currentMenu->SetParameter(paramType, name, displayText, min, max, value);
+    currentMenu->SetParameter(paramType, name, displayText, min, max, value, options);
 }
 
 cSkinSetupParameter *cSkinSetup::GetNextParameter(void) {
@@ -221,7 +259,14 @@ void cSkinSetup::AddToGlobals(cGlobals *globals) {
     rootMenu->InitIterators();
     cSkinSetupParameter *param = NULL;
     while (param = rootMenu->GetNextParameter()) {
-		globals->AddInt(param->name, param->value);
+		if (param->type == sptString) {
+            string value = param->options[param->value];
+            globals->AddString(param->name, value);
+            string intName = "index" + param->name;
+            globals->AddInt(intName, param->value);
+        } else {
+            globals->AddInt(param->name, param->value);
+        }
     }
 }
 
@@ -233,6 +278,23 @@ void cSkinSetup::TranslateSetup(void) {
         if (Translate(param->displayText, transl)) {
             param->displayText = transl;
         }
+        if (param->type == sptString && param->numOptions > 0) {
+            param->optionsTranslated = new const char*[param->numOptions];
+            for (int i = 0; i < param->numOptions; i++) {
+                string option = param->options[i];
+                string optionTransToken = "{tr(" + option + ")}";
+                string optionTranslated = "";
+                if (Translate(optionTransToken, optionTranslated)) {
+                    char *s = new char[optionTranslated.size()];
+                    strcpy(s, optionTranslated.c_str());
+                    param->optionsTranslated[i] = s;
+                } else {
+                    char *s = new char[option.size()];
+                    strcpy(s, option.c_str());
+                    param->optionsTranslated[i] = s;
+                }
+            }
+        }
     }
 
     rootMenu->InitIterators();
diff --git a/libcore/skinsetup.h b/libcore/skinsetup.h
index 29649ed..a664ebc 100644
--- a/libcore/skinsetup.h
+++ b/libcore/skinsetup.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ using namespace std;
 enum eSetupParameterType {
     sptInt,
     sptBool,
+    sptString,
     sptUnknown
 };
 
@@ -24,13 +25,16 @@ class cSkinSetupParameter {
 private:
 public:
     cSkinSetupParameter(void);
-    virtual ~cSkinSetupParameter(void) {};
+    virtual ~cSkinSetupParameter(void);
     eSetupParameterType type;
     string name;
     string displayText;
     int min;
     int max;
-    int value; 
+    int value;
+    const char* *options;
+    const char* *optionsTranslated;
+    int numOptions;
     void Debug(void);
 };
 
@@ -55,7 +59,7 @@ public:
     void SetParent(cSkinSetupMenu *p) { parent = p; };
     cSkinSetupMenu *GetParent(void) { return parent; };
     void AddSubMenu(cSkinSetupMenu *sub) { subMenus.push_back(sub); };
-    void SetParameter(eSetupParameterType paramType, string name, string displayText, string min, string max, string value);
+    void SetParameter(eSetupParameterType paramType, string name, string displayText, string min, string max, string value, string options);
     void InitIterators(void);
     void InitParameterIterator(void) { paramIt = parameters.begin(); };
     cSkinSetupParameter *GetNextParameter(bool deep = true);
@@ -82,7 +86,7 @@ public:
     bool ReadFromXML(void);
     void SetSubMenu(string name, string displayText);
     void SubMenuDone(void);
-    void SetParameter(string type, string name, string displayText, string min, string max, string value);
+    void SetParameter(string type, string name, string displayText, string min, string max, string value, string options);
     void InitParameterIterator(void) { rootMenu->InitIterators(); };
     cSkinSetupParameter *GetNextParameter(void);
     cSkinSetupParameter *GetParameter(string name);
diff --git a/libtemplate/globals.c b/libtemplate/globals.c
index 822b993..3fd0705 100644
--- a/libtemplate/globals.c
+++ b/libtemplate/globals.c
@@ -149,6 +149,15 @@ void cGlobals::ReplaceStringVars(string &value) {
 
 }
 
+bool cGlobals::GetString(string &name, string &value) {
+    map<string,string>::iterator hit = stringVars.find(name);
+    if (hit == stringVars.end())
+        return false;
+    value = hit->second;
+    return true;
+}
+
+
 bool cGlobals::AddTranslation(string name,  map < string, string > transl) {
     translations.erase(name);
     translations.insert(pair<string, map < string, string > >(name, transl));
diff --git a/libtemplate/globals.h b/libtemplate/globals.h
index d566fac..12ee917 100644
--- a/libtemplate/globals.h
+++ b/libtemplate/globals.h
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ public:
     void ReplaceDoubleVars(string &value);
     void AddString(string &name, string &value);
     void ReplaceStringVars(string &value);
+    bool GetString(string &name, string &value);
     bool AddTranslation(string name,  map < string, string > transl);
     bool Translate(string text, string &translation);
     void AddCustomInt(string &name, int value);
diff --git a/libtemplate/parameter.c b/libtemplate/parameter.c
index 21e02e1..d76cb35 100644
--- a/libtemplate/parameter.c
+++ b/libtemplate/parameter.c
@@ -291,6 +291,14 @@ void cConditionalParameter::Evaluate(map < string, int > *intTokens, map < strin
                         tokenTrue = true;
                 }
             }
+            if (!tokenTrue) {
+                string value = "";
+                if (globals->GetString(cond->tokenName, value)) {
+                    if (!value.compare(cond->strCompareValue)) {
+                        tokenTrue = true;   
+                    }
+                }               
+            }
         } else if (cond->type == ctStringNotEquals) {
             if (stringTokens) {
                 map < string, string >::iterator hit = stringTokens->find(cond->tokenName);
@@ -313,6 +321,14 @@ void cConditionalParameter::Evaluate(map < string, int > *intTokens, map < strin
                         tokenTrue = true;
                 }
             }
+            if (!tokenTrue) {
+                string value = "";
+                if (globals->GetString(cond->tokenName, value)) {
+                    if (value.find(cond->strCompareValue) != string::npos) {
+                        tokenTrue = true;   
+                    }
+                }               
+            }
         } else if (cond->type == ctStringNotContains) {
             if (stringTokens) {
                 map < string, string >::iterator hit = stringTokens->find(cond->tokenName);
@@ -472,6 +488,6 @@ string cConditionalParameter::StripWhitespaces(string value) {
 void cConditionalParameter::Debug(void) {
     dsyslog("skindesigner: Condition %s, Type: %s, cond is %s", value.c_str(), (type == cpAnd)?"and combination":((type == cpOr)?"or combination":"single param") , isTrue?"true":"false");
     for (vector<sCondition>::iterator it = conditions.begin(); it != conditions.end(); it++) {
-        dsyslog("skindesigner: cond token %s, type: %d, compareValue %d, negated: %d", it->tokenName.c_str(), it->type, it->compareValue, it->isNegated);
+        dsyslog("skindesigner: cond token %s, type: %d, compareValue %d, negated: %d, strCompareValue %s", it->tokenName.c_str(), it->type, it->compareValue, it->isNegated, it->strCompareValue.c_str());
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/libtemplate/templateview.c b/libtemplate/templateview.c
index fcedee8..78d6fdf 100644
--- a/libtemplate/templateview.c
+++ b/libtemplate/templateview.c
@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@ cTemplateView::cTemplateView(void) {
 }
 
 cTemplateView::~cTemplateView() {
-    for (map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator it = viewElements.begin(); it != viewElements.end(); it++) {
+    for (multimap < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator it = viewElements.begin(); it != viewElements.end(); it++) {
         delete it->second;
     }
 
-    for (map < eViewList, cTemplateViewList* >::iterator it = viewLists.begin(); it != viewLists.end(); it++) {
+    for (multimap < eViewList, cTemplateViewList* >::iterator it = viewLists.begin(); it != viewLists.end(); it++) {
         delete it->second;
     }
 
@@ -64,11 +64,15 @@ void cTemplateView::SetContainer(int x, int y, int width, int height) {
 }
 
 cTemplateViewElement *cTemplateView::GetViewElement(eViewElement ve) {
-    map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator hit = viewElements.find(ve);
-    if (hit == viewElements.end()) {
-        return NULL;
+    pair<multimap< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator, multimap< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator> rangeViewElements;
+    rangeViewElements = viewElements.equal_range(ve);
+    for (multimap<eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement*>::iterator it = rangeViewElements.first; it!=rangeViewElements.second; ++it) {
+        cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = it->second;
+        if (viewElement->Execute()) {
+            return viewElement;
+        }
     }
-    return hit->second;
+    return NULL;
 }
 
 void cTemplateView::InitViewElementIterator(void) {
@@ -104,10 +108,21 @@ cTemplateViewGrid *cTemplateView::GetNextViewGrid(void) {
 }
 
 cTemplateViewList *cTemplateView::GetViewList(eViewList vl) {
-    map < eViewList, cTemplateViewList* >::iterator hit = viewLists.find(vl);
-    if (hit == viewLists.end())
-        return NULL;
-    return hit->second;
+    if (viewLists.size() == 1) {
+        multimap < eViewList, cTemplateViewList* >::iterator hit = viewLists.find(vl);
+        if (hit == viewLists.end())
+            return NULL;
+        return hit->second;
+    }
+    pair<multimap< eViewList, cTemplateViewList* >::iterator, multimap< eViewList, cTemplateViewList* >::iterator> rangeViewLists;
+    rangeViewLists = viewLists.equal_range(vl);
+    for (multimap<eViewList, cTemplateViewList*>::iterator it = rangeViewLists.first; it!=rangeViewLists.second; ++it) {
+        cTemplateViewList *viewList = it->second;
+        if (viewList->Execute()) {
+            return viewList;
+        }
+    }
+    return NULL;
 }
 
 void cTemplateView::InitViewListIterator(void) {
@@ -190,7 +205,7 @@ cRect cTemplateView::GetOsdSize(void) {
 
 int cTemplateView::GetNumPixmaps(void) {
     int numPixmaps = 0;
-    for (map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator it = viewElements.begin(); it != viewElements.end(); it++) {
+    for (multimap < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator it = viewElements.begin(); it != viewElements.end(); it++) {
         cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = it->second;
         numPixmaps += viewElement->GetNumPixmaps();
     }
@@ -198,10 +213,9 @@ int cTemplateView::GetNumPixmaps(void) {
 }
 
 int cTemplateView::GetNumPixmapsViewElement(eViewElement ve) {
-    map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator hit = viewElements.find(ve);
-    if (hit == viewElements.end())
+    cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = GetViewElement(ve);
+    if (!viewElement)
         return 0;
-    cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = hit->second; 
     return viewElement->GetNumPixmaps();
 }
 
@@ -248,15 +262,14 @@ tColor cTemplateView::DebugGridFontColor(void) {
 }
 
 bool cTemplateView::ExecuteView(eViewElement ve) {
-    map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator hit = viewElements.find(ve);
-    if (hit == viewElements.end())
+    cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = GetViewElement(ve);
+    if (!viewElement)
         return false;
-    cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = hit->second;
-    return viewElement->Execute();
+    return true;
 }
 
 bool cTemplateView::DetachViewElement(eViewElement ve) {
-    map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator hit = viewElements.find(ve);
+    multimap < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator hit = viewElements.find(ve);
     if (hit == viewElements.end())
         return false;
     cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = hit->second;
@@ -264,10 +277,9 @@ bool cTemplateView::DetachViewElement(eViewElement ve) {
 }
 
 string cTemplateView::GetViewElementMode(eViewElement ve) {
-    map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator hit = viewElements.find(ve);
-    if (hit == viewElements.end())
+    cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = GetViewElement(ve);
+    if (!viewElement)
         return "";
-    cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = hit->second;
     return viewElement->GetMode();    
 }
 
@@ -563,9 +575,8 @@ void cTemplateView::PreCache(bool isSubview) {
     int osdWidth = parameters->GetNumericParameter(ptWidth);
     int osdHeight = parameters->GetNumericParameter(ptHeight);
     int pixOffset = 0;
-
     //Cache ViewElements
-    for (map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator it = viewElements.begin(); it != viewElements.end(); it++) {
+    for (multimap < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator it = viewElements.begin(); it != viewElements.end(); it++) {
         cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = it->second;
         viewElement->SetGlobals(globals);
         if (!isSubview)
@@ -588,7 +599,7 @@ void cTemplateView::PreCache(bool isSubview) {
     }
 
     //Cache ViewLists
-    for (map < eViewList, cTemplateViewList* >::iterator it = viewLists.begin(); it != viewLists.end(); it++) {
+    for (multimap < eViewList, cTemplateViewList* >::iterator it = viewLists.begin(); it != viewLists.end(); it++) {
         cTemplateViewList *viewList = it->second;
         viewList->SetGlobals(globals);
         //viewlists in subviews need complete container information
@@ -632,13 +643,13 @@ void cTemplateView::Debug(void) {
     
     parameters->Debug();
 
-    for (map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator it = viewElements.begin(); it != viewElements.end(); it++) {
+    for (multimap < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator it = viewElements.begin(); it != viewElements.end(); it++) {
         esyslog("skindesigner: ++++++++ ViewElement: %s", GetViewElementName(it->first).c_str());
         cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = it->second;
         viewElement->Debug();
     }
 
-    for (map < eViewList, cTemplateViewList* >::iterator it = viewLists.begin(); it != viewLists.end(); it++) {
+    for (multimap < eViewList, cTemplateViewList* >::iterator it = viewLists.begin(); it != viewLists.end(); it++) {
         esyslog("skindesigner: ++++++++ ViewList: %s", GetViewListName(it->first).c_str());
         cTemplateViewList *viewList = it->second;
         viewList->Debug();
@@ -787,6 +798,7 @@ void cTemplateView::SetFunctionDefinitions(void) {
     attributes.insert("width");
     attributes.insert("height");
     attributes.insert("align");
+    attributes.insert("valign");
     attributes.insert("maxlines");  
     attributes.insert("font");
     attributes.insert("fontsize");
@@ -1008,7 +1020,7 @@ string cTemplateViewChannel::GetViewElementName(eViewElement ve) {
     return name;
 }
 
-void cTemplateViewChannel::AddPixmap(string sViewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<stringpair> &viewElementattributes) {
+void cTemplateViewChannel::AddViewElement(string sViewElement, cTemplateViewElement *viewElement) {
     eViewElement ve = veUndefined;
 
     if (!sViewElement.compare("background")) {
@@ -1055,17 +1067,7 @@ void cTemplateViewChannel::AddPixmap(string sViewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *p
         return;
     }
 
-    pix->SetGlobals(globals);
-
-    map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator hit = viewElements.find(ve);
-    if (hit == viewElements.end()) {
-        cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = new cTemplateViewElement();
-        viewElement->SetParameters(viewElementattributes);
-        viewElement->AddPixmap(pix);
-        viewElements.insert(pair< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement*>(ve, viewElement));
-    } else {
-        (hit->second)->AddPixmap(pix);
-    }
+    viewElements.insert(pair< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement*>(ve, viewElement));
 }
 
 /************************************************************************************
@@ -1246,6 +1248,7 @@ cTemplateViewMenu::cTemplateViewMenu(void) {
     attributes.insert("menuitemwidth");
     attributes.insert("determinatefont");
     attributes.insert("numlistelements");
+    attributes.insert("condition");
     funcsAllowed.insert(pair< string, set<string> >("menuitems", attributes));
 
     //definition of allowed parameters for currentitems viewlist 
@@ -1516,7 +1519,7 @@ void cTemplateViewMenu::AddPluginView(string plugName, int templNo, cTemplateVie
     }
 }
 
-void cTemplateViewMenu::AddPixmap(string sViewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<string, string> > &viewElementattributes) {
+void cTemplateViewMenu::AddViewElement(string sViewElement, cTemplateViewElement *viewElement) {
     eViewElement ve = veUndefined;
     
     if (!sViewElement.compare("background")) {
@@ -1568,20 +1571,7 @@ void cTemplateViewMenu::AddPixmap(string sViewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix,
         return;
     }
 
-    pix->SetGlobals(globals);
-
-    map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator hit = viewElements.find(ve);
-    if (hit == viewElements.end()) {
-        cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = new cTemplateViewElement();
-        viewElement->SetParameters(viewElementattributes);
-        if (viewElement->DebugTokens()) {
-            dsyslog("skindesigner: activating token debugging for view element %s", sViewElement.c_str());
-        }
-        viewElement->AddPixmap(pix);
-        viewElements.insert(pair< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement*>(ve, viewElement));
-    } else {
-        (hit->second)->AddPixmap(pix);
-    }
+    viewElements.insert(pair< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement*>(ve, viewElement));
 }
 
 void cTemplateViewMenu::AddViewList(string sViewList, cTemplateViewList *viewList) {
@@ -1657,7 +1647,7 @@ string cTemplateViewMessage::GetViewElementName(eViewElement ve) {
     return name;
 }
 
-void cTemplateViewMessage::AddPixmap(string sViewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<string, string> > &viewElementattributes) {
+void cTemplateViewMessage::AddViewElement(string sViewElement, cTemplateViewElement *viewElement) {
     eViewElement ve = veUndefined;
     
     if (!sViewElement.compare("background")) {
@@ -1671,17 +1661,7 @@ void cTemplateViewMessage::AddPixmap(string sViewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *p
         return;
     }
 
-    pix->SetGlobals(globals);
-
-    map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator hit = viewElements.find(ve);
-    if (hit == viewElements.end()) {
-        cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = new cTemplateViewElement();
-        viewElement->SetParameters(viewElementattributes);
-        viewElement->AddPixmap(pix);
-        viewElements.insert(pair< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement*>(ve, viewElement));
-    } else {
-        (hit->second)->AddPixmap(pix);
-    }
+    viewElements.insert(pair< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement*>(ve, viewElement));
 }
 
 /************************************************************************************
@@ -1814,7 +1794,7 @@ string cTemplateViewReplay::GetViewElementName(eViewElement ve) {
     return name;
 }
 
-void cTemplateViewReplay::AddPixmap(string sViewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<string, string> > &viewElementattributes) {
+void cTemplateViewReplay::AddViewElement(string sViewElement, cTemplateViewElement *viewElement) {
     eViewElement ve = veUndefined;
     
     if (!sViewElement.compare("background")) {
@@ -1864,17 +1844,7 @@ void cTemplateViewReplay::AddPixmap(string sViewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pi
         return;
     }
 
-    pix->SetGlobals(globals);
-
-    map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator hit = viewElements.find(ve);
-    if (hit == viewElements.end()) {
-        cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = new cTemplateViewElement();
-        viewElement->SetParameters(viewElementattributes);
-        viewElement->AddPixmap(pix);
-        viewElements.insert(pair< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement*>(ve, viewElement));
-    } else {
-        (hit->second)->AddPixmap(pix);
-    }
+    viewElements.insert(pair< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement*>(ve, viewElement));
 }
 
 
@@ -1931,7 +1901,7 @@ string cTemplateViewVolume::GetViewElementName(eViewElement ve) {
     return name;
 }
 
-void cTemplateViewVolume::AddPixmap(string sViewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<string, string> > &viewElementattributes) {
+void cTemplateViewVolume::AddViewElement(string sViewElement, cTemplateViewElement *viewElement) {
     eViewElement ve = veUndefined;
     
     if (!sViewElement.compare("background")) {
@@ -1945,17 +1915,7 @@ void cTemplateViewVolume::AddPixmap(string sViewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pi
         return;
     }
 
-    pix->SetGlobals(globals);
-
-    map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator hit = viewElements.find(ve);
-    if (hit == viewElements.end()) {
-        cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = new cTemplateViewElement();
-        viewElement->SetParameters(viewElementattributes);
-        viewElement->AddPixmap(pix);
-        viewElements.insert(pair< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement*>(ve, viewElement));
-    } else {
-        (hit->second)->AddPixmap(pix);
-    }
+    viewElements.insert(pair< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement*>(ve, viewElement));
 }
 
 /************************************************************************************
@@ -2041,7 +2001,7 @@ string cTemplateViewAudioTracks::GetViewListName(eViewList vl) {
     return name;
 }
 
-void cTemplateViewAudioTracks::AddPixmap(string sViewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<string, string> > &viewElementattributes) {
+void cTemplateViewAudioTracks::AddViewElement(string sViewElement, cTemplateViewElement *viewElement) {
     eViewElement ve = veUndefined;
     
     if (!sViewElement.compare("background")) {
@@ -2055,17 +2015,7 @@ void cTemplateViewAudioTracks::AddPixmap(string sViewElement, cTemplatePixmapNod
         return;
     }
 
-    pix->SetGlobals(globals);
-
-    map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator hit = viewElements.find(ve);
-    if (hit == viewElements.end()) {
-        cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = new cTemplateViewElement();
-        viewElement->SetParameters(viewElementattributes);
-        viewElement->AddPixmap(pix);
-        viewElements.insert(pair< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement*>(ve, viewElement));
-    } else {
-        (hit->second)->AddPixmap(pix);
-    }
+    viewElements.insert(pair< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement*>(ve, viewElement));
 }
 
 void cTemplateViewAudioTracks::AddViewList(string sViewList, cTemplateViewList *viewList) {
@@ -2148,18 +2098,12 @@ void cTemplateViewPlugin::AddSubView(string sSubView, cTemplateView *subView) {
     subViews.insert(pair< eSubView, cTemplateView* >((eSubView)subViewId, subView));
 }
 
-void cTemplateViewPlugin::AddPixmap(string sViewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<string, string> > &viewElementattributes) {
+void cTemplateViewPlugin::AddViewElement(string sViewElement, cTemplateViewElement *viewElement) {
     eViewElement ve = veUndefined;
     string viewElementName = "";
     int viewElementID = -1;
-    bool found = false;
-    for (vector<pair<string, string> >::iterator it = viewElementattributes.begin(); it != viewElementattributes.end(); it++) {
-        if (!(it->first).compare("name")) {
-            viewElementName = it->second;
-            found = true;
-            break;
-        }
-    }
+
+    bool found = viewElement->GetName(viewElementName);
 
     if (found) {
         viewElementID = config.GetPluginViewElementID(pluginName, viewElementName, viewID);
@@ -2178,30 +2122,14 @@ void cTemplateViewPlugin::AddPixmap(string sViewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pi
         viewElementID = pve;
     }
 
-    pix->SetGlobals(globals);
-
     ve = (eViewElement)viewElementID;
-    map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* >::iterator hit = viewElements.find(ve);
-    if (hit == viewElements.end()) {
-        cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = new cTemplateViewElement();
-        viewElement->SetParameters(viewElementattributes);
-        viewElement->AddPixmap(pix);
-        viewElements.insert(pair< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement*>(ve, viewElement));
-    } else {
-        (hit->second)->AddPixmap(pix);
-    }
+    viewElements.insert(pair< eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement*>(ve, viewElement));
 }
 
-void cTemplateViewPlugin::AddPixmapGrid(cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<string, string> > &gridAttributes) {
+void cTemplateViewPlugin::AddGrid(cTemplateViewGrid *viewGrid) {
     string gridName = "";
-    bool found = false;
-    for (vector<pair<string, string> >::iterator it = gridAttributes.begin(); it != gridAttributes.end(); it++) {
-        if (!(it->first).compare("name")) {
-            gridName = it->second;
-            found = true;
-            break;
-        }
-    }
+    bool found = viewGrid->GetName(gridName);
+
     if (!found) {
         esyslog("skindesigner: no name defined for plugin %s grid", pluginName.c_str());
     }
@@ -2212,17 +2140,7 @@ void cTemplateViewPlugin::AddPixmapGrid(cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<st
         return;
     }
 
-    pix->SetGlobals(globals);
-
-    map < int, cTemplateViewGrid* >::iterator hit = viewGrids.find(gridID);
-    if (hit == viewGrids.end()) {
-        cTemplateViewGrid *viewGrid = new cTemplateViewGrid();
-        viewGrid->SetParameters(gridAttributes);
-        viewGrid->AddPixmap(pix);
-        viewGrids.insert(pair< int, cTemplateViewGrid*>(gridID, viewGrid));
-    } else {
-        (hit->second)->AddPixmap(pix);
-    }
+    viewGrids.insert(pair< int, cTemplateViewGrid*>(gridID, viewGrid));
 }
 
 void cTemplateViewPlugin::AddViewTab(cTemplateViewTab *viewTab) {
diff --git a/libtemplate/templateview.h b/libtemplate/templateview.h
index 726ce68..1713cdc 100644
--- a/libtemplate/templateview.h
+++ b/libtemplate/templateview.h
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ protected:
     int containerWidth;
     int containerHeight;
     //basic view data structures
-    map < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* > viewElements;
-    map < eViewList, cTemplateViewList* > viewLists;
+    multimap < eViewElement, cTemplateViewElement* > viewElements;
+    multimap < eViewList, cTemplateViewList* > viewLists;
     map < int, cTemplateViewGrid* > viewGrids;
     map < eSubView, cTemplateView* > subViews;
     vector< cTemplateViewTab* > viewTabs;
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ public:
     virtual string GetViewListName(eViewList vl) { return ""; };
     virtual void AddSubView(string sSubView, cTemplateView *subView) {};
     virtual void AddPluginView(string plugName, int templNo, cTemplateView *plugView) {};
-    virtual void AddPixmap(string sViewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<stringpair> &viewElementattributes) {};
-    virtual void AddPixmapGrid(cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<string, string> > &gridAttributes) {};
+    virtual void AddViewElement(string sViewElement, cTemplateViewElement *viewElement) {};
+    virtual void AddGrid(cTemplateViewGrid *viewGrid) {};
     virtual void AddViewList(string sViewList, cTemplateViewList *viewList) {};
     virtual void AddViewTab(cTemplateViewTab *viewTab) {};
     //Setter Functions
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ public:
     cTemplateViewChannel(void);
     virtual ~cTemplateViewChannel(void);
     string GetViewElementName(eViewElement ve);
-    void AddPixmap(string viewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<stringpair> &viewElementattributes);
+    void AddViewElement(string sViewElement, cTemplateViewElement *viewElement);
 };
 
 // --- cTemplateViewMenu -------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ public:
     string GetViewListName(eViewList vl);
     void AddSubView(string sSubView, cTemplateView *subView);
     void AddPluginView(string plugName, int templNo, cTemplateView *plugView);
-    void AddPixmap(string viewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<string, string> > &viewElementattributes);
+    void AddViewElement(string sViewElement, cTemplateViewElement *viewElement);
     void AddViewList(string sViewList, cTemplateViewList *viewList);
     void AddViewTab(cTemplateViewTab *viewTab);
 };
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ public:
     cTemplateViewMessage(void);
     virtual ~cTemplateViewMessage(void);
     string GetViewElementName(eViewElement ve);
-    void AddPixmap(string viewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<string, string> > &viewElementattributes);
+    void AddViewElement(string sViewElement, cTemplateViewElement *viewElement);
 };
 
 // --- cTemplateViewReplay -------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ public:
     cTemplateViewReplay(void);
     virtual ~cTemplateViewReplay(void);
     string GetViewElementName(eViewElement ve);
-    void AddPixmap(string viewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<string, string> > &viewElementattributes);
+    void AddViewElement(string sViewElement, cTemplateViewElement *viewElement);
 };
 
 // --- cTemplateViewVolume -------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ public:
     cTemplateViewVolume(void);
     virtual ~cTemplateViewVolume(void);
     string GetViewElementName(eViewElement ve);
-    void AddPixmap(string viewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<string, string> > &viewElementattributes);
+    void AddViewElement(string sViewElement, cTemplateViewElement *viewElement);
 };
 
 // --- cTemplateViewAudioTracks -------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ public:
     virtual ~cTemplateViewAudioTracks(void);
     string GetViewElementName(eViewElement ve);
     string GetViewListName(eViewList vl);
-    void AddPixmap(string viewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<string, string> > &viewElementattributes);
+    void AddViewElement(string sViewElement, cTemplateViewElement *viewElement);
     void AddViewList(string sViewList, cTemplateViewList *viewList);
 };
 
@@ -235,8 +235,8 @@ public:
     cTemplateViewPlugin(string pluginName, int viewID);
     virtual ~cTemplateViewPlugin(void);
     void AddSubView(string sSubView, cTemplateView *subView);
-    void AddPixmap(string viewElement, cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<string, string> > &viewElementattributes);
-    void AddPixmapGrid(cTemplatePixmapNode *pix, vector<pair<string, string> > &gridAttributes);
+    void AddViewElement(string sViewElement, cTemplateViewElement *viewElement);
+    void AddGrid(cTemplateViewGrid *viewGrid);
     void AddViewTab(cTemplateViewTab *viewTab);
 };
 
diff --git a/libtemplate/templateviewelement.c b/libtemplate/templateviewelement.c
index 0171bdb..56672b8 100644
--- a/libtemplate/templateviewelement.c
+++ b/libtemplate/templateviewelement.c
@@ -97,6 +97,15 @@ int cTemplateViewElement::GetNumPixmaps(void) {
     return numPixmaps;
 };
 
+bool cTemplateViewElement::GetName(string &name) {
+    if (!parameters)
+        return false;
+    name = parameters->GetParameter(ptName);
+    if (name.size() > 0)
+        return true;
+    return false;
+}
+
 void cTemplateViewElement::InitPixmapNodeIterator(void) {
     pixmapNodeIterator = viewPixmapNodes.begin();
 }
diff --git a/libtemplate/templateviewelement.h b/libtemplate/templateviewelement.h
index 32f2ecc..189e9e5 100644
--- a/libtemplate/templateviewelement.h
+++ b/libtemplate/templateviewelement.h
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ public:
     void SetPixOffset(int offset) { pixOffset = offset; };
     int GetPixOffset(void) { return pixOffset; };
     virtual int GetNumPixmaps(void);
+    bool GetName(string &name);
     void InitPixmapNodeIterator(void);
     cTemplatePixmapNode *GetNextPixmapNode(void);
     void InitPixmapIterator(void);
diff --git a/libtemplate/templateviewlist.c b/libtemplate/templateviewlist.c
index 1d5dabe..a831d2d 100644
--- a/libtemplate/templateviewlist.c
+++ b/libtemplate/templateviewlist.c
@@ -25,9 +25,7 @@ void cTemplateViewList::SetGlobals(cGlobals *globals) {
 bool cTemplateViewList::CalculateListParameters(void) {
     if (!parameters)
         return false;
-    parameters->SetContainer(containerX, containerY, containerWidth, containerHeight);
-    parameters->SetGlobals(globals);
-    bool paramsValid = parameters->CalculateParameters();
+    bool paramsValid = false;
     if (!listElement)
         return false;
     listElement->SetContainer(parameters->GetNumericParameter(ptX),
@@ -67,6 +65,13 @@ bool cTemplateViewList::CalculateListParameters(map < string, int > *intTokens)
     return paramsValid;
 }
 
+eOrientation cTemplateViewList::GetOrientation(void) {
+    if (!parameters)
+        return orNone;
+    int orientation = parameters->GetNumericParameter(ptOrientation);
+    return (eOrientation)orientation;
+}
+
 int cTemplateViewList::GetAverageFontWidth(void) {
     int defaultAverageFontWidth = 20;
 
diff --git a/libtemplate/templateviewlist.h b/libtemplate/templateviewlist.h
index 5806745..4cc4ccb 100644
--- a/libtemplate/templateviewlist.h
+++ b/libtemplate/templateviewlist.h
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ public:
     bool CalculateListParameters(map < string, int > *intTokens);
     cTemplateViewElement *GetListElement(void) { return listElement; };
     cTemplateViewElement *GetListElementCurrent(void) { return currentElement; };
+    eOrientation GetOrientation(void);
     int GetAverageFontWidth(void);
     cFont *GetTextAreaFont(void);
     int GetMenuItemWidth(void);
diff --git a/libtemplate/xmlparser.c b/libtemplate/xmlparser.c
index ce41918..ba5684e 100644
--- a/libtemplate/xmlparser.c
+++ b/libtemplate/xmlparser.c
@@ -199,12 +199,16 @@ void cXmlParser::ParseViewElement(cTemplateView *subView) {
     if (!view)
         return;
     
-    const char *viewElement = NodeName();
+    const char *viewElementName = NodeName();
     vector<stringpair> attributes = ParseAttributes();
     ValidateAttributes("viewelement", attributes);
 
     if (!LevelDown())
         return;
+
+    cTemplateViewElement *viewElement = new cTemplateViewElement();
+    viewElement->SetParameters(attributes);
+
     do {
         if (!CheckNodeName("areacontainer") && !CheckNodeName("area") && !CheckNodeName("areascroll")) {
             esyslog("skindesigner: invalid tag \"%s\" in viewelement", NodeName());
@@ -216,12 +220,15 @@ void cXmlParser::ParseViewElement(cTemplateView *subView) {
         } else {
             pix = ParseAreaContainer();
         }
-        if (subView)
-            subView->AddPixmap(viewElement, pix, attributes);
-        else
-            view->AddPixmap(viewElement, pix, attributes);
+        pix->SetGlobals(globals);
+        viewElement->AddPixmap(pix);
     } while (NextNode());
     LevelUp();
+
+    if (subView)
+        subView->AddViewElement(viewElementName, viewElement);
+    else
+        view->AddViewElement(viewElementName, viewElement);
 }
 
 void cXmlParser::ParseViewList(cTemplateView *subView) {
@@ -323,6 +330,10 @@ void cXmlParser::ParseGrid(void) {
 
     if (!LevelDown())
         return;
+
+    cTemplateViewGrid *viewGrid = new cTemplateViewGrid();
+    viewGrid->SetParameters(attributes);
+
     do {
 
         if (!CheckNodeName("areacontainer") && !CheckNodeName("area") && !CheckNodeName("areascroll")) {
@@ -335,9 +346,12 @@ void cXmlParser::ParseGrid(void) {
         } else {
             pix = ParseAreaContainer();
         }
-        view->AddPixmapGrid(pix, attributes);
+        pix->SetGlobals(globals);
+        viewGrid->AddPixmap(pix);
     } while (NextNode());
     LevelUp();
+    
+    view->AddGrid(viewGrid);
 }
 
 cTemplatePixmap *cXmlParser::ParseArea(void) {
@@ -579,15 +593,17 @@ void cXmlParser::ParseSetupParameter(void) {
     string attributeMax = "max";
     string paramMax = "";
     string paramValue = "";
+    string attributeOptions = "options";
+    string paramOptions="";
 
     GetAttribute(attributeType, paramType);
     GetAttribute(attributeName, paramName);
     GetAttribute(attributeDisplayText, paramDisplayText);
     GetAttribute(attributeMin, paramMin);
-    GetAttribute(attributeMax, paramMax);
+    GetAttribute(attributeOptions, paramOptions);
     GetNodeValue(paramValue);
 
-    skinSetup->SetParameter(paramType, paramName, paramDisplayText, paramMin, paramMax, paramValue);
+    skinSetup->SetParameter(paramType, paramName, paramDisplayText, paramMin, paramMax, paramValue, paramOptions);
 }
 
 void cXmlParser::ValidateAttributes(const char *nodeName, vector<stringpair> &attributes) {
diff --git a/patches/vdr-2.2.0_horizontal_menu.patch b/patches/vdr-2.2.0_horizontal_menu.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a7fae81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/vdr-2.2.0_horizontal_menu.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+Common subdirectories: vdr-2.2.0/PLUGINS and /usr/local/src/vdr-2.2.0/PLUGINS
+Common subdirectories: vdr-2.2.0/libsi and /usr/local/src/vdr-2.2.0/libsi
+diff -upN '--exclude=Make.config' vdr-2.2.0/osdbase.c /usr/local/src/vdr-2.2.0/osdbase.c
+--- vdr-2.2.0/osdbase.c	2015-01-15 11:11:11.000000000 +0100
++++ /usr/local/src/vdr-2.2.0/osdbase.c	2015-08-06 17:27:18.778646643 +0200
+@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ cOsdMenu::cOsdMenu(const char *Title, in
+   title = NULL;
+   menuCategory = mcUnknown;
+   menuSortMode = msmUnknown;
++  menuOrientation = moVertical;
+   SetTitle(Title);
+   SetCols(c0, c1, c2, c3, c4);
+   first = 0;
+@@ -231,6 +232,7 @@ void cOsdMenu::Display(void)
+   if (menuCategory != displayMenu->MenuCategory())
+      displayMenu->SetMenuCategory(menuCategory);
+   displayMenu->SetMenuSortMode(menuSortMode);
++  menuOrientation = displayMenu->MenuOrientation();
+   displayMenuItems = displayMenu->MaxItems();
+   displayMenu->SetTabs(cols[0], cols[1], cols[2], cols[3], cols[4]);//XXX
+   displayMenu->SetTitle(title);
+@@ -541,13 +543,13 @@ eOSState cOsdMenu::ProcessKey(eKeys Key)
+     case k0:      return osUnknown;
+     case k1...k9: return hasHotkeys ? HotKey(Key) : osUnknown;
+     case kUp|k_Repeat:
+-    case kUp:   CursorUp();   break;
++    case kUp:   if (menuOrientation == moHorizontal) PageUp(); else CursorUp();   break;
+     case kDown|k_Repeat:
+-    case kDown: CursorDown(); break;
++    case kDown: if (menuOrientation == moHorizontal) PageDown(); else CursorDown();   break;
+     case kLeft|k_Repeat:
+-    case kLeft: PageUp(); break;
++    case kLeft: if (menuOrientation == moHorizontal) CursorUp(); else PageUp();   break;
+     case kRight|k_Repeat:
+-    case kRight: PageDown(); break;
++    case kRight: if (menuOrientation == moHorizontal) CursorDown(); else PageDown();    break;
+     case kBack: return osBack;
+     case kOk:   if (marked >= 0) {
+                    SetStatus(NULL);
+diff -upN '--exclude=Make.config' vdr-2.2.0/osdbase.h /usr/local/src/vdr-2.2.0/osdbase.h
+--- vdr-2.2.0/osdbase.h	2015-01-15 11:09:18.000000000 +0100
++++ /usr/local/src/vdr-2.2.0/osdbase.h	2015-07-31 15:23:29.232867174 +0200
+@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ private:
+   int first, current, marked;
+   eMenuCategory menuCategory;
+   eMenuSortMode menuSortMode;
++  eMenuOrientation menuOrientation;
+   cOsdMenu *subMenu;
+   const char *helpRed, *helpGreen, *helpYellow, *helpBlue;
+   bool helpDisplayed;
+Common subdirectories: vdr-2.2.0/po and /usr/local/src/vdr-2.2.0/po
+diff -upN '--exclude=Make.config' vdr-2.2.0/skins.h /usr/local/src/vdr-2.2.0/skins.h
+--- vdr-2.2.0/skins.h	2015-01-15 11:45:47.000000000 +0100
++++ /usr/local/src/vdr-2.2.0/skins.h	2015-08-06 17:33:41.500188153 +0200
+@@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ enum eMenuSortMode {
+   msmProvider
+   };
+ 
++#define MENU_ORIENTATION_DEFINED 1
++enum eMenuOrientation {
++  moVertical = 0,
++  moHorizontal
++  };
++
+ class cSkinDisplayMenu : public cSkinDisplay {
+        ///< This class implements the general purpose menu display, which is
+        ///< used throughout the program to display information and let the
+@@ -179,6 +185,10 @@ public:
+        ///< Sets the mode by which the items in this menu are sorted.
+        ///< This is purely informative and may be used by a skin to display the
+        ///< current sort mode by means of some text or symbol.
++  virtual eMenuOrientation MenuOrientation(void) { return moVertical; }
++       ///< Asks the skin for the orientation of the displayed menu
++       ///< If menu orientation is set to horizontal, the keys left / right
++       ///< and up / down are just toggled
+   virtual void Scroll(bool Up, bool Page);
+        ///< If this menu contains a text area that can be scrolled, this function
+        ///< will be called to actually scroll the text. Up indicates whether the
+Common subdirectories: vdr-2.2.0/symbols and /usr/local/src/vdr-2.2.0/symbols
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index e2abab4..f8fae07 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -471,6 +471,8 @@ void cSkindesignerSkinSetup::Set(void) {
             Add(new cMenuEditIntItem(param->displayText.c_str(), &param->value, param->min, param->max));
         } else if (param->type == sptBool) {
             Add(new cMenuEditBoolItem(param->displayText.c_str(), &param->value));
+        } else if (param->type == sptString) {
+            Add(new cMenuEditStraItem(param->displayText.c_str(), &param->value, param->numOptions, param->optionsTranslated));
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/setup.xml b/skins/metrixhd/setup.xml
index 4ed34b8..ad1d246 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/setup.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/setup.xml
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
         <parameter type="int" name="shifttimedatetime" min="0" max="1000" displaytext="{tr(shifttimedatetimetext)}">0</parameter>
         <parameter type="int" name="shifttimetimers" min="0" max="1000" displaytext="{tr(shifttimetimerstext)}">0</parameter>
         <parameter type="bool" name="showdevices" displaytext="{tr(showdevices)}">0</parameter>
+        <parameter type="string" name="mainmenuorientation" displaytext="{tr(mainmenuorientation)}" options="horizontal,vertical">1</parameter>
+        <parameter type="string" name="recmenuorientation" displaytext="{tr(recmenuorientation)}" options="horizontal,vertical">1</parameter>
+        <parameter type="string" name="weathermenuorientation" displaytext="{tr(weathermenuorientation)}" options="horizontal,vertical">1</parameter>
     </menu>
 
     <translations>
@@ -33,5 +36,25 @@
             <trans lang="de_DE">DVB Karten Info beim Umschalten anzeigen</trans>
             <trans lang="fi_FI">Näytä DVB-tiedot kanavanvaihdossa</trans>
         </token>
+        <token name="tr(mainmenuorientation)">
+            <trans lang="en_EN">Orientation of main menu</trans>
+            <trans lang="de_DE">Ausrichtung des Hauptmenüs</trans>
+        </token>
+        <token name="tr(recmenuorientation)">
+            <trans lang="en_EN">Orientation of recordings menu</trans>
+            <trans lang="de_DE">Ausrichtung des Aufzeichnugsmenüs</trans>
+        </token>
+        <token name="tr(weathermenuorientation)">
+            <trans lang="en_EN">Orientation of weatherforecast menu</trans>
+            <trans lang="de_DE">Ausrichtung des Wettermenüs</trans>
+        </token>
+        <token name="tr(horizontal)">
+            <trans lang="en_EN">horizontal menu</trans>
+            <trans lang="de_DE">horizontales Menü</trans>
+        </token>
+        <token name="tr(vertical)">
+            <trans lang="en_EN">vertical menu</trans>
+            <trans lang="de_DE">vertikales Menü</trans>
+        </token>
     </translations>
 </setup>
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displayaudiotracks.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displayaudiotracks.xml
index 8c5af98..def251b 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displayaudiotracks.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displayaudiotracks.xml
@@ -2,19 +2,12 @@
 <!DOCTYPE displayaudiotracks SYSTEM "../../../dtd/displayaudiotracks.dtd">
 
 <displayaudiotracks x="25%" y="0" width="50%" height="100%" fadetime="{fadetime}">
-    <!-- Available Variables background:
-    {numtracks}                     number of displayed tracks 
-    -->
     <background>
         <area x="0" y="{areaheight} - {numtracks} * {areaheight} / 10 - {areaheight} / 10" width="100%" height="{areaheight} / 10 + {areaheight} / 10 * {numtracks}" layer="1">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlack}" />
         </area>
     </background>
-
-    <!-- Available Variables header:
-    {numtracks}                     number of displayed tracks 
-    {title}                         title of menu 
-    -->
+    
     <header>
         <area x="0" y="{areaheight} - {numtracks} * {areaheight} / 10 - {areaheight} / 10" width="100%" height="{areaheight} / 10" layer="2">
             <drawtext x="10" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{title}" />
@@ -22,15 +15,8 @@
             <drawimage condition="{isac3}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_ac3" x="{areawidth} - {areaheight}*0.9" valign="center" width="{areaheight}*0.9" height="{areaheight}*0.9"/>
         </area>
     </header>
-
-     <!-- Available Variables header:
-    {numelements}                 number of displayed tracks 
-    -->
+    
     <menuitems x="0" y="{areaheight} - {numelements} * {areaheight} / 10" orientation="vertical" width="100%" height="{numelements} * {areaheight} / 10" align="top" numlistelements="{numelements}">
-        <!-- Available Variables auidotrack listelement:
-        {current}                 true if item is currently selected 
-        {title}                   title of auio track 
-        -->
         <listelement>
             <!-- Background -->
             <area x="1%" width="98%" layer="2">
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaychannel.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaychannel.xml
index 13b9c07..9817b9d 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaychannel.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaychannel.xml
@@ -13,13 +13,6 @@
         </area>
     </background>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables channelinfo:
-    {channelnumber}                 Number of Channel, with "-" in case of channel switching
-    {channelname}                   Name of current Channel
-    {channellogoexists}             true if a channel logo exists 
-    {channelid}                     ChannelID as path to display channel logo
-    {switching}                     true if a number is pressed on the remote to switch to a dedicated channel
-    -->
     <channelinfo>
         <area x="22%" y="80%" width="76%" height="7%" layer="2">
             <fill condition="not{switching}" color="{clrTransparent}" />
@@ -30,27 +23,7 @@
             <drawtext condition="not{channellogoexists}" x="5" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="40%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{channelnumber}: {channelname}" />
         </area>
     </channelinfo>
-    <!-- Available Variables epginfo:
-    {currenttitle}                     Title of the current Schedule
-    {currentsubtitle}                  Subtitle of the current Schedule
-    {currentstart}                     Start of current Schedule in hh:mm
-    {currentstop}                      End of current Schedule in hh:mm 
-    {currentduration}                  Duration of current Schedule in min
-    {currentdurationhours}             Duration, full hours
-    {currentdurationminutes}           Duration, rest of minutes
-    {currentelapsed}                   Elapsed time of current Schedule in min
-    {currentremaining}                 Remaining time of current Schedule in min
-    {currentrecording}                 true if current Schedule is recorded
-    {hasVPS}                           true if current Schedule has VPS
-    {nexttitle}                        Title of next Schedule
-    {nextsubtitle}                     Subtitle of next Schedule
-    {nextstart}                        Start of next Schedule in hh:mm
-    {nextstop}                         Stop of next Schedule in hh:mm
-    {nextduration}                     Duration of next Schedule in min
-    {nextdurationhours}                Duration, full hours
-    {nextdurationminutes}              Duration, rest of minutes
-    {nextrecording}                    true if next Schedule will be recorded
-    -->
+    
     <epginfo>
         <area x="22%" y="80%" width="76%" height="7%" layer="2">
             <drawtext name="title" x="0" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="99%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{currenttitle}" width="{areawidth} - {width(startstop)}"/>
@@ -64,15 +37,6 @@
         </area>
     </epginfo>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables progressbar:
-    {start}                            Start of current Schedule in hh:mm
-    {stop}                             End of current Schedule in hh:mm 
-    {duration}                         Total Duration of current Schedule in seconds
-    {elapsed}                          Elapsed time of current Schedule in seconds
-    {remaining}                        Remaining time of current Schedule in seconds
-    {permashift}                       true if permashift plugin is in use
-    {livebuffer}                       current buffered data in seconds
-    -->
     <progressbar>
         <area condition="not{permashift}" x="22%" y="87%" width="76%" height="3" layer="2">
             <drawrectangle x="0" y="1" width="100%" height="1" color="{clrWhite}" />
@@ -85,15 +49,6 @@
         </area>
     </progressbar>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables statusinfo:
-    {isRadio}                          true if channel is a radio channel
-    {hasVT}                            true if channel has video text
-    {isStereo}                         true if a stereo audio trac is available
-    {isDolby}                          true if a dolby audio track is available
-    {isEncrypted}                      true if channel is encrypted
-    {isRecording}                      true if currently a recording is running on this channel
-    {newmails}                         true if mailbox plugin is installed and new mails are available
-    -->
     <statusinfo>
         <area x="22%" y="94%" width="76%" height="6%" layer="2">
             <!-- encrypted / decrypted icon -->
@@ -111,23 +66,9 @@
         </area>
     </statusinfo>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables audioinfo:
-    {numaudiotracks}                   number of available audio tracks for current channel
-    {audiochannel}                     0 if current channel is stereo, 1 for left chanel only, 2 for right channel only
-    {trackdesc}                        description of the current audio track
-    {tracklang}                        language of the current audio track
-    -->
     <audioinfo>
     </audioinfo>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables screenresolution:
-    {screenwidth}                      width of currently displayed channel in px
-    {screenheight}                     height of currently displayed channel in px
-    {resolution}                       resolution: hd1080i, hd720p, sd576i
-    {aspect}                           screen aspect, each 4:3, 16:9 or 21:9
-    {isHD}                             true for hd1080i and hd720p
-    {isWideScreen}                     true if aspect is 16:9 or 21:9
-    -->
     <screenresolution>
         <area x="22%" y="94%" width="76%" height="6%" layer="2">
             <!-- widescreen icon -->
@@ -141,15 +82,6 @@
         </area>
     </screenresolution>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables dvbdeviceinfo:
-    {prevAvailable}                     true if previous Channel Group is avaialble
-    {nextAvailable}                     true if next Channel Group is avaialble
-    {group}                             Name of current Channel Group
-    {nextgroup}                         Name of next Channel Group
-    {prevgroup}                         Name of prev Channel Group
-    {sepexists}                         true if a channel separator logo exists
-    {seppath}                           path for separator logo to use in imagetype "seplogo"
-    -->
     <channelgroup>
         <area x="0" y="80%" width="20%" height="20%" layer="2">
             <drawimage condition="{sepexists}" imagetype="seplogo" path="{seppath}" width="98%" height="98%" align="center" valign="center" />
@@ -162,37 +94,15 @@
         </area>             
     </channelgroup>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables signalquality:
-    {signalstrength}                    STR value of currently displayed channel
-    {signalquality}                     SNR value of currently displayed channel
-    -->
     <signalquality>
         <area x="22%" y="94%" width="76%" height="6%" layer="3">
             <drawtext x="0" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="70%" color="{clrWhite}" text="STR: {signalstrength}% SNR: {signalquality}%" />
         </area>
     </signalquality>
 
-    <!-- background of signalmeter, will only be drawn if signalquality was deleted -->
     <signalqualityback>
     </signalqualityback>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables devices:
-    {numdevices}                number of available devices
-    {devices[]}                 array with available devices
-    {devices[num]}              number of current device
-    {devices[type]}             type of device (DVB-S, DVB-C, ...)
-    {devices[istuned]}          true if device is currently tuned to a transponder
-    {devices[livetv]}           true if device is currently playing livetv
-    {devices[recording]}        true if device is currently recording
-    {devices[hascam]}           true if device has a CAM
-    {devices[cam]}              number of CAM
-    {devices[signalstrength]}   signalstrength of devcie
-    {devices[signalquality]}    signalstrength of devcie
-    {devices[channelnumber]}    number of the currently tuned channel
-    {devices[channelname]}      name of the currently tuned channel
-    {devices[channelid]}        ID of the currently tuned channel
-    {devices[source]}           source of the currently tuned channel
-    -->
     <devices condition="{showdevices}" detached="true" delay="100" shifttime="{shifttimedatetime}" shifttype="right" shiftmode="slowed">
         <area x="70%" y="30%" width="30%" height="{areaheight}/12 * {numdevices}" layer="1" background="true">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlack}"/>
@@ -211,26 +121,6 @@
         </area>
     </devices>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables currentweather:
-    {timestamp}                 timestamp of forecast in dd.mm hh:mm
-    {temperature}               current temperature in °C
-    {apparenttemperature}       apparent (feeled) temperature
-    {mintemperature}            minimum temperature this day
-    {maxtemperature}            maximum temperature this day
-    {summary}                   short weather summary
-    {icon}                      weather icon 
-    {precipitationintensity}    precipitation intensity in l/m2
-    {precipitationprobability}  precipitation probability in %
-    {precipitationtype}         precipitation type
-    {humidity}                  humidity in %
-    {windspeed}                 windspeed in km/h
-    {windbearing}               wind bearing in °
-    {windbearingstring}         wind bearing (N, NE, ...)
-    {visibility}                visibility in km
-    {cloudcover}                cloud cover in %
-    {pressure}                  pressure in HPo
-    {ozone}                     ozone value in DU
-    -->
     <currentweather detached="true" delay="100" shifttime="{shifttimedatetime}" shifttype="right" shiftmode="slowed">
         <area background="true" x="70%" y="15%" width="30%" height="13%" layer="1">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlack}" />
@@ -248,22 +138,6 @@
         </area>
     </currentweather>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables scrapercontent:
-    {posterpath}                        Full Path of Poster to use in image path attribute
-    {posterwidth}                       width of poster in pixel
-    {posterheight}                      height of poster in pixel
-    {hasPoster}                         true if poster is available
-    {bannerpath}                        Full Path of banner to use in image path attribute
-    {bannerwidth}                       width of banner in pixel
-    {bannerheight}                      height of banner in pixel
-    {hasBanner}                         true if banner is available
-
-    Use this tokens if you want to display a banner for series and a poster for movies:
-    {mediapath}                         Full Path of Poster or Banner to use in image path attribute
-    {mediawidth}                        width of image in pixel
-    {mediaheight}                       height of image in pixel
-    {isbanner}                          true if image is a banner, false if it is a poster
-    -->
     <scrapercontent detached="true" delay="0" fadetime="0">
         <area condition="{isbanner}" x="0" y="0" width="{areaheight}*0.13*{mediawidth}/{mediaheight}" height="13%" layer="2">
             <drawimage imagetype="image" path="{mediapath}" align="center" valign="center"  width="{areawidth}" height="{areaheight}"/>
@@ -273,17 +147,6 @@
         </area>
     </scrapercontent>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables datetime:
-    {time}                              time in hh:mm
-    {day}                               day in digits
-    {dayleadingzero}                    day in digits with leading 0
-    {dayname}                           Full name of the day
-    {daynameshort}                      Short 3 char name of the day
-    {month}                             month in digits with leading 0
-    {monthname}                         Full name of the month
-    {monthnameshort}                    3 letter abbrivation of month name
-    {year}                              year in yyyy
-    -->
     <datetime detached="true" delay="100" shifttime="{shifttimedatetime}" shifttype="right" shiftmode="slowed">
         <area background="true" x="70%" y="0" width="30%" height="13%" layer="1">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlack}" />
@@ -297,13 +160,7 @@
             <drawtext x="1%" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="90%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{time}" />
         </area>
     </datetime>
-    <!-- Available Variables message:
-    {text}                     message text
-    {status}                   true if message is a status message
-    {info}                     true if message is a info message
-    {warning}                  true if message is a warn message
-    {error}                    true if message is a error message
-    -->
+    
     <message>
         <area x="10%" y="45%" width="80%" height="10%" layer="1">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlack}" />
@@ -315,11 +172,7 @@
         </area>
     </message>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables customtokens:
-    all custom tokens set by the svdrp command SCTK are available in this viewelement
-    For instance, use an appropriate script which runs periodically as cronjob and
-    sets these custom tokens with svdrpsend or dbus2vdr
-    --> 
     <customtokens>
     </customtokens>
+
 </displaychannel>
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenu.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenu.xml
index 1389bef..53b70fb 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenu.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenu.xml
@@ -13,11 +13,7 @@
 ]>
 
 <displaymenu x="3%" y="5%" width="94%" height="90%" fadetime="0">
-    <!-- 
-    The following background, header, datetime and colorbuttons definitions are default
-    implementations. If one or more of these elements are not implemented in the subview, 
-    the default implementations are used. 
-    -->
+
     <background>
         <!-- background left Menu -->
         <area x="0" y="0" width="63%" height="100%" layer="1">
@@ -28,18 +24,7 @@
             <fill color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
         </area>
     </background>
-    <!-- Available Variables header:
-    {title}                   title of current menu
-    {vdrversion}              running VDR Version
-    {hasicon}                 true if a menu icon is available
-    {icon}                    path of menu icon
-    {freetime}                available disc capacity in hh:mm
-    {freepercent}             available disc capacity in percent
-    {usedpercent}             used disc capacity in percent
-    {freegb}                  available disc capacity in gigabytes
-    {discalert}               true if disc usage is > 95%
-    {vdrusagestring}          localized VDR internal usage string
-    -->
+
     <header>
         <area x="0" y="0" width="41%" height="10%" layer="2">
             <drawtext condition="not{hasicon}" x="5" width="{areawidth}-10" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{title}" />
@@ -47,17 +32,7 @@
             <drawtext condition="{hasicon}" x="{areaheight}" valign="center" width="{areawidth}-{areaheight}-10" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{title}" />
         </area>
     </header>
-    <!-- Available Variables datetime:
-    {time}                              time in hh:mm
-    {day}                               day in digits
-    {dayleadingzero}                    day in digits with leading 0
-    {dayname}                           Full name of the day
-    {daynameshort}                      Short 3 char name of the day
-    {month}                             month in digits with leading 0
-    {monthname}                         Full name of the month
-    {monthnameshort}                    3 letter abbrivation of month name
-    {year}                              year in yyyy
-    -->
+
     <datetime>
         <area x="41%" y="0" width="12%" height="10%" layer="2">
             <drawtext align="right" y="5%" font="{light}" fontsize="50%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{dayname}" />
@@ -67,13 +42,7 @@
             <drawtext align="center" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{time}" />
         </area>
     </datetime>
-    <!-- Available Variables message:
-    {text}                    message text
-    {status}                  true if message is an status message
-    {info}                    true if message is an info message
-    {warning}                 true if message is an warn message
-    {error}                   true if message is an error message
-    -->
+
     <message>
         <area x="5%" y="75%" width="90%" height="15%" layer="7">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlack}" />
@@ -85,12 +54,6 @@
         </area>
     </message>
     
-    <!-- Available Variables sortmode:
-    {sortnumber}              true if menu is sorted by number
-    {sortname}                true if menu is sorted alphabetical
-    {sorttime}                true if menu is sorted by time
-    {sortprovider}            true if menu is sorted by provider
-    -->
     <sortmode>
         <area x="35%" y="2%" width="6%" height="6%" layer="4">
             <drawimage condition="{sortnumber}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_sort_number" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%"/>
@@ -99,28 +62,7 @@
             <drawimage condition="{sortprovider}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_sort_provider" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%"/>
         </area>
     </sortmode>
-    <!-- Available Variables colorbuttons:
-    {red1}                    true if red button is button 1
-    {red2}                    true if red button is button 2
-    {red3}                    true if red button is button 3
-    {red4}                    true if red button is button 4
-    {green1}                  true if green button is button 1
-    {green2}                  true if green button is button 2
-    {green3}                  true if green button is button 3
-    {green4}                  true if green button is button 4
-    {yellow1}                 true if yellow button is button 1
-    {yellow2}                 true if yellow button is button 2
-    {yellow3}                 true if yellow button is button 3
-    {yellow4}                 true if yellow button is button 4
-    {blue1}                   true if blue button is button 1
-    {blue2}                   true if blue button is button 2
-    {blue3}                   true if blue button is button 3
-    {blue4}                   true if blue button is button 4
-    {red}                     label of red button
-    {green}                   label of green button
-    {yellow}                  label of yellow button
-    {blue}                    label of blue button
-    -->
+
     <colorbuttons>
         <area x="0" y="92%" width="15%" height="8%" layer="2">
             <drawtext condition="{red1}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{red}" />
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenuchannels.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenuchannels.xml
index 3e6f771..5b3a184 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenuchannels.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenuchannels.xml
@@ -1,25 +1,5 @@
 <menuchannels x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" fadetime="0">
     <menuitems x="0" y="10%" orientation="vertical" width="100%" height="82%" align="center" numlistelements="16">
-        <!-- Available Variables channels menu listelement:
-        {nummenuitem}             number of item in list, starts with 1
-        {number}                  number of the displayed channel
-        {name}                    name of the displayed channel
-        {channelid}               ChannelID as path to display channel logo
-        {transponder}             Transponder of channel
-        {frequency}               Frequency of channel
-        {source}                  Source of channel (S, C, T)
-        {sourcedescription}       Descriptin of source from sources.conf
-        {position}                orbital position of the satellite in case this is a DVB-S source
-        {isAtsc}                  true if channel is a ATSC channel
-        {isCable}                 true if channel is cable channel
-        {isSat}                   true if channel is a satellite channel
-        {isTerr}                  true if channel is terrestrical
-        {presenteventtitle}       title of present event on this channel
-        {presenteventstart}       present event start time in hh::mm
-        {presenteventstop}        present event event stop time in hh::mm
-        {current}                 true if item is currently selected 
-        {separator}               true if item is a list separator 
-        -->
         <listelement>
             <!-- Background -->
             <area x="1%" width="58%" layer="2">
@@ -37,51 +17,6 @@
                 <drawtext x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="95%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{name}" />
             </area>
         </listelement>
-        <!-- additional element which is drawn for current element -->
-        <!-- Available Variables channels menu currentelement:
-        {number}                        number of the displayed channel
-        {name}                          name of the displayed channel
-        {channelid}                     ChannelID as path to display channel logo
-        {transponder}                   Transponder of channel
-        {frequency}                     Frequency of channel
-        {source}                        Source of channel (S, C, T)
-        {sourcedescription}             Descriptin of source from sources.conf
-        {position}                      orbital position of the satellite in case this is a DVB-S source
-        {isAtsc}                        true if channel is a ATSC channel
-        {isCable}                       true if channel is cable channel
-        {isSat}                         true if channel is a satellite channel
-        {isTerr}                        true if channel is terrestrical
-        {presenteventtitle}             title of present event on this channel
-        {presenteventstart}             present event start time in hh::mm
-        {presenteventstop}              present event stop time in hh::mm
-        {presenteventshorttext}         present event short text
-        {presenteventdescription}       present event description
-        {presenteventday}               present event name of day
-        {presenteventdate}              present event date in dd:mm:yy
-        {presenteventelapsed}           present event elapsed time
-        {presenteventduration}          present event duration
-        {presenteventdurationhours}     duration, full hours
-        {presenteventdurationminutes}   duration, rest of minutes
-        {hasposter}                     true if a scraped poster is available for this elements present evemt
-        {posterwidth}                   width of scraped poster
-        {posterheight}                  height of scraped poster
-        {posterpath}                    absolute path of scraped poster
-        {nexteventtitle}                title of next event on this channel
-        {nexteventstart}                next event start time in hh::mm
-        {nexteventstop}                 next event event stop time in hh::mm
-        {nexteventshorttext}            next event short text
-        {nexteventdescription}          next event description
-        {nexteventday}                  next event name of day
-        {nexteventdate}                 next event date in dd:mm:yy
-        {nexteventduration}             next event duration
-        {nexteventdurationhours}        duration, full hours
-        {nexteventdurationminutes}      duration, rest of minutes
-        {schedule[]}                    array with following 10 schedules
-        {schedule[title]}               title of event
-        {schedule[shorttext]}           shorttext of event
-        {schedule[start]}               start time of event in hh:mm
-        {schedule[stop]}                stop time of event in hh:mm        
-        -->
         <currentelement delay="500" fadetime="0">
             <area x="63%" y="0" width="36%" height="85%" layer="2">
                 <drawimage name="logo" imagetype="channellogo" path="{channelid}" x="10" y="0" width="30%" height="10%" />
@@ -108,10 +43,6 @@
             </areascroll>
         </currentelement>
     </menuitems>
-    <!-- Available Variables colorbuttons:
-    {height}                  height in one-tenth of a percent of total height
-    {offset}                  offset from top in one-tenth of a percent of total height
-    -->
     <scrollbar>
         <area x="60%" y="10%" width="2%" height="82%" layer="3">
             <fill color="{clrWhite}" />
@@ -119,4 +50,4 @@
             <drawrectangle x="4" y="4 + {areaheight} * {offset} / 1000" width="{areawidth} - 8" height="{areaheight} * {height} / 1000 - 8" color="{clrWhite}" />
         </area>
     </scrollbar>
-</menuchannels>
\ No newline at end of file
+</menuchannels>
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudefault.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudefault.xml
index d3f56c1..de4b49a 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudefault.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudefault.xml
@@ -5,12 +5,7 @@
             <fill color="{clrTransBlack}" />
         </area>
     </background>
-    <!-- Available Variables header:
-    {title}                   title of current menu
-    {vdrversion}              running VDR Version
-    {hasicon}                 true if a menu icon is available
-    {icon}                    path of menu icon
-    -->
+    
     <header>
         <area x="0" y="0" width="75%" height="10%" layer="2">
             <drawtext condition="not{hasicon}" x="5" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{title}" />
@@ -18,16 +13,7 @@
             <drawtext condition="{hasicon}" x="{areaheight}" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{title}" />
         </area>
     </header>
-    <!-- Available Variables datetime:
-    {time}                              time in hh:mm
-    {day}                               day in digits
-    {dayleadingzero}                    day in digits with leading 0
-    {dayname}                           Full name of the day
-    {daynameshort}                      Short 3 char name of the day
-    {month}                             month in digits with leading 0
-    {monthname}                         Full name of the month
-    {year}                              year in yyyy
-    -->
+    
     <datetime>
         <area x="80%" y="0" width="10%" height="10%" layer="2">
             <drawtext align="right" y="0%" font="{light}" fontsize="50%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{dayname}" />
@@ -38,28 +24,6 @@
         </area>
     </datetime>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables colorbuttons:
-    {red1}                    true if red button is button 1
-    {red2}                    true if red button is button 2
-    {red3}                    true if red button is button 3
-    {red4}                    true if red button is button 4
-    {green1}                  true if green button is button 1
-    {green2}                  true if green button is button 2
-    {green3}                  true if green button is button 3
-    {green4}                  true if green button is button 4
-    {yellow1}                 true if yellow button is button 1
-    {yellow2}                 true if yellow button is button 2
-    {yellow3}                 true if yellow button is button 3
-    {yellow4}                 true if yellow button is button 4
-    {blue1}                   true if blue button is button 1
-    {blue2}                   true if blue button is button 2
-    {blue3}                   true if blue button is button 3
-    {blue4}                   true if blue button is button 4
-    {red}                     label of red button
-    {green}                   label of green button
-    {yellow}                  label of yellow button
-    {blue}                    label of blue button
-    -->
     <colorbuttons>
         <area x="0" y="92%" width="25%" height="8%" layer="2">
             <drawtext condition="{red1}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{red}" />
@@ -110,47 +74,8 @@
             <drawrectangle x="4" y="4 + {areaheight} * {offset} / 1000" width="{areawidth} - 8" height="{areaheight} * {height} / 1000 - 8" color="{clrWhite}" />
         </area>
     </scrollbar>
-    <!-- IMPORTANT: menuitemwidth and determinatefont have to be defined here. menuitemwidth defines the total width of the 
-    default menu items, determinatefont the function which sets the actual font to use. With that it is possible to determinate
-    the correct column widths -->
+    
     <menuitems x="0" y="10%" orientation="vertical" width="94%" height="82%" align="center" menuitemwidth="94%" determinatefont="column1" numlistelements="16">
-        <!-- Available Variables default menu listelement:
-        {nummenuitem}               number of item in list, starts with 1
-        {column1}                   text of column1
-        {column2}                   text of column2
-        {column3}                   text of column3
-        {column4}                   text of column4
-        {column5}                   text of column5
-        {column6}                   text of column6
-        {column2set}                true if column2 is used
-        {column3set}                true if column3 is used
-        {column4set}                true if column4 is used
-        {column5set}                true if column5 is used
-        {column6set}                true if column6 is used
-        {column2x}                  proposed x value of column2
-        {column3x}                  proposed x value of column3
-        {column4x}                  proposed x value of column4
-        {column5x}                  proposed x value of column5
-        {column6x}                  proposed x value of column6
-        {column1width}              proposed width of column1
-        {column2width}              proposed width of column2
-        {column3width}              proposed width of column3
-        {column4width}              proposed width of column4
-        {column5width}              proposed width of column5
-        {column6width}              proposed width of column6
-        {columnscroll}              number of column which should have scrollable text
-        {current}                   true if column is currently selected 
-        {separator}                 true if column is a list separator
-
-        A dynamic token is set to indicate the current menu category or the plugin which is currently running.
-        With that it is possible to display different default menus with an individual style.
-        If a setup menu is diplayed, the token
-        {setup}                     is set to true
-        For the commands menu
-        {commands}                  is set to true
-        If a plugin is running, a token called as the name of the plugin is set to true
-        {pluginname}                is set to true
-        -->
         <listelement>
             <area x="0" condition="not{separator}" width="100%" layer="2">
                 <fill condition="not{current}" color="{clrTransparent}" />
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudetailepg.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudetailepg.xml
index 39bd991..0f5c224 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudetailepg.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudetailepg.xml
@@ -21,28 +21,7 @@
             <fill color="{clrTransparent}" />
         </area>
     </datetime>
-    <!-- Available Variables colorbuttons:
-    {red1}                    true if red button is button 1
-    {red2}                    true if red button is button 2
-    {red3}                    true if red button is button 3
-    {red4}                    true if red button is button 4
-    {green1}                  true if green button is button 1
-    {green2}                  true if green button is button 2
-    {green3}                  true if green button is button 3
-    {green4}                  true if green button is button 4
-    {yellow1}                 true if yellow button is button 1
-    {yellow2}                 true if yellow button is button 2
-    {yellow3}                 true if yellow button is button 3
-    {yellow4}                 true if yellow button is button 4
-    {blue1}                   true if blue button is button 1
-    {blue2}                   true if blue button is button 2
-    {blue3}                   true if blue button is button 3
-    {blue4}                   true if blue button is button 4
-    {red}                     label of red button
-    {green}                   label of green button
-    {yellow}                  label of yellow button
-    {blue}                    label of blue button
-    -->
+    
     <colorbuttons>
         <area x="0" y="92%" width="25%" height="8%" layer="2">
             <drawtext condition="{red1}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{red}" />
@@ -85,38 +64,7 @@
             <drawrectangle condition="{blue4}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrBlue}" />
         </area>
     </colorbuttons>
-    <!-- Available Variables in detailheader elements:
-    {title}                   title of event
-    {shorttext}               shorttext of event
-    {start}                   event start time in hh::mm
-    {stop}                    event stop time
-    {day}                     day of current event
-    {date}                    date of current event in dd.mm.yy
-    {daynumeric}              day as number
-    {month}                   month as number
-    {year}                    year as number
-    {running}                 true if event is currently running
-    {elapsed}                 elapsed time of event, if not running 0
-    {duration}                duration of event
-    {durationhours}           duration, full hours
-    {durationminutes}         duration, rest of minutes
-    {vps}                     vps description string
-    {channelname}             Channelname of event
-    {channelnumber}           Channelnumber of event
-    {channelid}               ChannelID as path to display channel logo
-    {ismovie}                 true if event is scraped as a movie
-    {isseries}                true if event is scraped as a series
-    {posteravailable}         true if a poster is available
-    {posterwidth}             width of scraped poster
-    {posterheight}            height of scraped poster
-    {posterpath}              absolute path of scraped poster
-    {banneravailable}         true if a banner is available
-    {bannerwidth}             width of banner
-    {bannerheight}            height of banner
-    {bannerpath}              path of banner
-    {epgpicavailable}         true if a epg picture is available
-    {epgpicpath}              path of epg picture
-    -->
+    
     <detailheader>
         <area x="1%" y="0" width="98%" height="20%" layer="3">
             <drawimage name="logo" imagetype="channellogo" path="{channelid}" x="0" width="15%" height="80%" valign="center" />
@@ -129,10 +77,7 @@
             <drawtext name="shorttext" x="{width(logo)} + 20" y="{posy(title)} + {height(title)}" font="{light}" fontsize="25%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{shorttext}" />
         </area>
     </detailheader>
-    <!-- Available Variables scrollbar:
-    {height}                  height in one-tenth of a percent of total height
-    {offset}                  offset from top in one-tenth of a percent of total height
-    -->
+    
     <scrollbar>
         <area x="98%" y="20%" width="2%" height="65%" layer="3">
             <fill color="{clrWhite}" />
@@ -140,137 +85,6 @@
             <drawrectangle x="4" y="4 + {areaheight} * {offset} / 1000" width="{areawidth} - 8" height="{areaheight} * {height} / 1000 - 8" color="{clrWhite}" />
         </area>
     </scrollbar>
-    <!-- Available Variables in tab elements:
-    {title}                   title of event
-    {shorttext}               shorttext of event
-    {description}             description of event
-    {start}                   event start time in hh::mm
-    {stop}                    event stop time
-    {day}                     Day of event as three letter abrivation
-    {date}                    Date of event
-    {daynumeric}              day as number
-    {month}                   month as number
-    {year}                    year as number
-    {running}                 true if event is currently running
-    {elapsed}                 elapsed time of event, if not running 0
-    {duration}                duration of event
-    {durationhours}           duration, full hours
-    {durationminutes}         duration, rest of minutes
-    {vps}                     vps description string
-    {channelid}               ChannelID as path to display channel logo
-    {hasreruns}               true if reruns of this event are found
-    {reruns[]}                array with reruns
-    {reruns[title]}           title of rerun
-    {reruns[shorttext]}       shorttext of rerun
-    {reruns[date]}            date of rerun in dd:mm
-    {reruns[day]}             short dayname of rerun
-    {reruns[start]}           start time of rerun in hh:mm
-    {reruns[stop]}            stop time of rerun in hh:mm
-    {reruns[channelname]}     name of channel on which rerun occurs
-    {reruns[channelnumber]}   number of channel on which rerun occurs
-    {reruns[channelid]}       id of channel on which rerun occurs to display channel logo
-    {reruns[channellogoexists]} true if channel logo exists
-    {epgpic1avaialble}        true if first epg picture is available
-    {epgpic2avaialble}        true if first epg picture is available
-    {epgpic3avaialble}        true if first epg picture is available
-    {epgpic1path}             path of first epg picture
-    {epgpic2path}             path of second epg picture
-    {epgpic3path}             path of third epg picture
-
-    {ismovie}                 true if event is scraped as a movie
-    Available variables for movies:
-    {movietitle}              movie title from themoviedb
-    {movieoriginalTitle}      movie original title from themoviedb
-    {movietagline}            movie tagline from themoviedb
-    {movieoverview}           movie overview from themoviedb
-    {movieadult}              true if movie is rated as adult
-    {moviebudget}             movie budget from themoviedb in $
-    {movierevenue}            movie revenue from themoviedb in $
-    {moviegenres}             movie genres from themoviedb
-    {moviehomepage}           movie homepage from themoviedb
-    {moviereleasedate}        movie release date from themoviedb
-    {movieruntime}            movie runtime from themoviedb
-    {moviepopularity}         movie popularity from themoviedb
-    {movievoteaverage}        movie vote average from themoviedb
-    {posterwidth}             width of scraped poster
-    {posterheight}            height of scraped poster
-    {posterpath}              absolute path of scraped poster
-    {fanartwidth}             width of scraped fanart
-    {fanartheight}            height of scraped fanart
-    {fanartpath}              absolute path of scraped fanart
-    {movieiscollection}       true if movie is part of a collection
-    {moviecollectionName}     name of movie collection
-    {collectionposterwidth}   width of scraped collection poster
-    {collectionposterheight}  height of scraped collection poster
-    {collectionposterpath}    absolute path of scraped collection poster
-    {collectionfanartwidth}   width of scraped collection fanart
-    {collectionfanartheight}  height of scraped collection fanart
-    {collectionfanartpath}    absolute path of scraped collection fanart
-    {actors[]}                array with movie actors
-    {actors[name]}            real name of actor
-    {actors[role]}            actor role
-    {actors[thumb]}           absolute path of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbwidth]}      width of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbheight]}     height of scraped actor thumb
-
-    {isseries}                true if event is scraped as a series
-    Available variables for series:
-    {seriesname}              name of series
-    {seriesoverview}          series overview
-    {seriesfirstaired}        first aired date 
-    {seriesnetwork}           network which produces series
-    {seriesgenre}             series genre
-    {seriesrating}            series thetvdb rating
-    {seriesstatus}            status of series (running / finished)
-    {episodetitle}            title of episode
-    {episodenumber}           number of episode
-    {episodeseason}           season of episode
-    {episodefirstaired}       first aired date of episode
-    {episodegueststars}       guest stars of episode
-    {episodeoverview}         episode overview
-    {episoderating}           user rating for episode
-    {episodeimagewidth}       episode image width
-    {episodeimageheight}      episode image height
-    {episodeimagepath}        episode image path
-    {seasonposterwidth}       episode season poster width
-    {seasonposterheight}      episode season poster height
-    {seasonposterpath}        episode season poster path
-    {seriesposter1width}      width of 1st poster
-    {seriesposter1height}     height of 1st poster
-    {seriesposter1path}       path of 1st poster
-    {seriesposter2width}      width of 2nd poster
-    {seriesposter2height}     height of 2nd poster
-    {seriesposter2path}       path of 2nd poster
-    {seriesposter3width}      width of 3rd poster
-    {seriesposter3height}     height of 3rd poster
-    {seriesposter3path}       path of 3rd poster
-    {seriesfanart1width}      width of 1st fanart
-    {seriesfanart1height}     height of 1st fanart
-    {seriesfanart1path}       path of 1st fanart
-    {seriesfanart2width}      width of 2nd fanart
-    {seriesfanart2height}     height of 2nd fanart
-    {seriesfanart2path}       path of 2nd fanart
-    {seriesfanart3width}      width of 3rd fanart
-    {seriesfanart3height}     height of 3rd fanart
-    {seriesfanart3path}       path of 3rd fanart
-    {seriesbanner1width}      width of 1st banner
-    {seriesbanner1height}     height of 1st banner
-    {seriesbanner1path}       path of 1st banner
-    {seriesbanner2width}      width of 2nd banner
-    {seriesbanner2height}     height of 2nd banner
-    {seriesbanner2path}       path of 2nd banner
-    {seriesbanner3width}      width of 3rd banner
-    {seriesbanner3height}     height of 3rd banner
-    {seriesbanner3path}       path of 3rd fanart
-    {actors[]}                array with movie actors
-    {actors[name]}            real name of actor
-    {actors[role]}            actor role
-    {actors[thumb]}           absolute path of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbwidth]}      width of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbheight]}     height of scraped actor thumb
-    -->
-
-    <!-- a tab is one scrolling area, just position and draw as inside a normal area -->
 
     <!-- TAB EPGINFO -->
     <tab name="EPG Info" x="2%" y="20%" width="94%" height="65%" layer="2" scrollheight="{areaheight}/4">
@@ -331,11 +145,6 @@
         <drawimage condition="{movieiscollection}" name="collectionposter" imagetype="image" path="{collectionposterpath}" align="center" y="{posy(collectionfanart)} + {height(collectionfanart)} + 20" width="{areawidth}*0.6" height="{areawidth} * 0.6 * {collectionposterheight} / {collectionposterwidth}"/>
     </tab>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables tablabels:
-    {tabs[]}                array with available tab labels
-    {tabs[title]}           title of tab
-    {tabs[current]}         true if tab is displayed currently
-    -->
     <tablabels>
         <area x="0" y="85%" width="98%" height="5%" layer="3">
             <loop name="tabs" x="0" y="0" orientation="horizontal">
@@ -346,4 +155,4 @@
             </loop>
         </area>
     </tablabels>
-</menudetailedepg>
\ No newline at end of file
+</menudetailedepg>
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudetailrecording.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudetailrecording.xml
index 47f096d..dfcd5ac 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudetailrecording.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudetailrecording.xml
@@ -21,28 +21,7 @@
             <fill color="{clrTransparent}" />
         </area>
     </datetime>
-    <!-- Available Variables colorbuttons:
-    {red1}                    true if red button is button 1
-    {red2}                    true if red button is button 2
-    {red3}                    true if red button is button 3
-    {red4}                    true if red button is button 4
-    {green1}                  true if green button is button 1
-    {green2}                  true if green button is button 2
-    {green3}                  true if green button is button 3
-    {green4}                  true if green button is button 4
-    {yellow1}                 true if yellow button is button 1
-    {yellow2}                 true if yellow button is button 2
-    {yellow3}                 true if yellow button is button 3
-    {yellow4}                 true if yellow button is button 4
-    {blue1}                   true if blue button is button 1
-    {blue2}                   true if blue button is button 2
-    {blue3}                   true if blue button is button 3
-    {blue4}                   true if blue button is button 4
-    {red}                     label of red button
-    {green}                   label of green button
-    {yellow}                  label of yellow button
-    {blue}                    label of blue button
-    -->
+    
     <colorbuttons>
         <area x="0" y="92%" width="25%" height="8%" layer="2">
             <drawtext condition="{red1}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{red}" />
@@ -85,34 +64,7 @@
             <drawrectangle condition="{blue4}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrBlue}" />
         </area>
     </colorbuttons>
-    <!-- Available Variables in detailheader elements:
-    {name}                    full name of recording (including folders)
-    {epgname}                 Name of recording (Name from EPG)
-    {shorttext}               shorttext of recording
-    {date}                    date of recording in dd.mm.yy
-    {time}                    time of current recording in hh:mm
-    {daynumeric}              day as number
-    {month}                   month as number
-    {year}                    year as number
-    {duration}                real duration of recording in minutes
-    {durationhours}           real duration, full hours
-    {durationminutes}         real duration, rest of minutes
-    {durationevent}           duration of corresponding event in minutes
-    {durationeventhours}      event duration, full hours
-    {durationeventminutes}    event duration, rest of minutes
-    {ismovie}                 true if event is scraped as a movie
-    {isseries}                true if event is scraped as a series
-    {posteravailable}         true if a poster is available
-    {posterwidth}             width of scraped poster
-    {posterheight}            height of scraped poster
-    {posterpath}              absolute path of scraped poster
-    {banneravailable}         true if a banner is available
-    {bannerwidth}             width of banner
-    {bannerheight}            height of banner
-    {bannerpath}              path of banner
-    {recimgavailable}         true if a recording image is available in the recording path
-    {recimgpath}              path of rec image
-    -->
+    
     <detailheader>
         <area x="1%" y="0" width="98%" height="20%" layer="3">
             <drawimage condition="{isseries}++{banneravailable}++not{recimgavailable}" imagetype="image" path="{bannerpath}" x="{areawidth} - {areawidth}/3 - 10" valign="center" width="{areawidth}/3" height="{areawidth}/3 * {bannerheight} / {bannerwidth}"/>
@@ -124,10 +76,7 @@
             <drawtext name="shorttext" x="20" y="{posy(title)} + {height(title)}" font="{light}" fontsize="25%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{shorttext}" />
         </area>
     </detailheader>
-    <!-- Available Variables scrollbar:
-    {height}                  height in one-tenth of a percent of total height
-    {offset}                  offset from top in one-tenth of a percent of total height
-    -->
+    
     <scrollbar>
         <area x="98%" y="20%" width="2%" height="65%" layer="3">
             <fill color="{clrWhite}" />
@@ -135,132 +84,7 @@
             <drawrectangle x="4" y="4 + {areaheight} * {offset} / 1000" width="{areawidth} - 8" height="{areaheight} * {height} / 1000 - 8" color="{clrWhite}" />
         </area>
     </scrollbar>
-    <!-- Available Variables in tab elements:
-    {name}                    full name of recording (including folders)
-    {epgname}                 Name of recording (Name from EPG)
-    {shorttext}               shorttext of recording
-    {description}             description of recording
-    {date}                    date of recording in dd.mm.yy
-    {time}                    time of recording in hh:mm
-    {daynumeric}              day as number
-    {month}                   month as number
-    {year}                    year as number
-    {duration}                real duration of recording in minutes
-    {durationhours}           real duration, full hours
-    {durationminutes}         real duration, rest of minutes
-    {durationevent}           duration of corresponding event in minutes
-    {durationeventhours}      event duration, full hours
-    {durationeventminutes}    event duration, rest of minutes
-
-    {recordingsize}           size of recording (automatically in GB / MB)
-    {recordingsizecutted}     size of cutted recording (automatically in GB / MB)
-    {recordinglength}         length of recording (in hh::mm:ss)
-    {recordinglengthcutted}   length of cutted recording (in hh::mm:ss)
-    {recordingbitrate}        bitrate of recording (in MBit/s)
-    {recordingformat}         format of recording (TS / PS)
-    {searchtimer}             name of accordign searchtimer (if available)
-
-    {recimg1avaialble}        true if first recording image is available
-    {recimg2avaialble}        true if first recording image is available
-    {recimg3avaialble}        true if first recording image is available
-    {recimg1path}             path of first recording image
-    {recimg2path}             path of second recording image
-    {recimg3path}             path of third recording image
     
-    {ismovie}                 true if event is scraped as a movie
-    Available variables for movies:
-    {movietitle}              movie title from themoviedb
-    {movieoriginalTitle}      movie original title from themoviedb
-    {movietagline}            movie tagline from themoviedb
-    {movieoverview}           movie overview from themoviedb
-    {movieadult}              true if movie is rated as adult
-    {moviebudget}             movie budget from themoviedb in $
-    {movierevenue}            movie revenue from themoviedb in $
-    {moviegenres}             movie genres from themoviedb
-    {moviehomepage}           movie homepage from themoviedb
-    {moviereleasedate}        movie release date from themoviedb
-    {movieruntime}            movie runtime from themoviedb
-    {moviepopularity}         movie popularity from themoviedb
-    {movievoteaverage}        movie vote average from themoviedb
-    {posterwidth}             width of scraped poster
-    {posterheight}            height of scraped poster
-    {posterpath}              absolute path of scraped poster
-    {fanartwidth}             width of scraped fanart
-    {fanartheight}            height of scraped fanart
-    {fanartpath}              absolute path of scraped fanart
-    {movieiscollection}       true if movie is part of a collection
-    {moviecollectionName}     name of movie collection
-    {collectionposterwidth}   width of scraped collection poster
-    {collectionposterheight}  height of scraped collection poster
-    {collectionposterpath}    absolute path of scraped collection poster
-    {collectionfanartwidth}   width of scraped collection fanart
-    {collectionfanartheight}  height of scraped collection fanart
-    {collectionfanartpath}    absolute path of scraped collection fanart
-    {actors[]}                array with movie actors
-    {actors[name]}            real name of actor
-    {actors[role]}            actor role
-    {actors[thumb]}           absolute path of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbwidth]}      width of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbheight]}     height of scraped actor thumb
-
-    {isseries}                true if event is scraped as a series
-    Available variables for series:
-    {seriesname}              name of series
-    {seriesoverview}          series overview
-    {seriesfirstaired}        first aired date 
-    {seriesnetwork}           network which produces series
-    {seriesgenre}             series genre
-    {seriesrating}            series thetvdb rating
-    {seriesstatus}            status of series (running / finished)
-    {episodetitle}            title of episode
-    {episodenumber}           number of episode
-    {episodeseason}           season of episode
-    {episodefirstaired}       first aired date of episode
-    {episodegueststars}       guest stars of episode
-    {episodeoverview}         episode overview
-    {episoderating}           user rating for episode
-    {episodeimagewidth}       episode image width
-    {episodeimageheight}      episode image height
-    {episodeimagepath}        episode image path
-    {seasonposterwidth}       episode season poster width
-    {seasonposterheight}      episode season poster height
-    {seasonposterpath}        episode season poster path
-    {seriesposter1width}      width of 1st poster
-    {seriesposter1height}     height of 1st poster
-    {seriesposter1path}       path of 1st poster
-    {seriesposter2width}      width of 2nd poster
-    {seriesposter2height}     height of 2nd poster
-    {seriesposter2path}       path of 2nd poster
-    {seriesposter3width}      width of 3rd poster
-    {seriesposter3height}     height of 3rd poster
-    {seriesposter3path}       path of 3rd poster
-    {seriesfanart1width}      width of 1st fanart
-    {seriesfanart1height}     height of 1st fanart
-    {seriesfanart1path}       path of 1st fanart
-    {seriesfanart2width}      width of 2nd fanart
-    {seriesfanart2height}     height of 2nd fanart
-    {seriesfanart2path}       path of 2nd fanart
-    {seriesfanart3width}      width of 3rd fanart
-    {seriesfanart3height}     height of 3rd fanart
-    {seriesfanart3path}       path of 3rd fanart
-    {seriesbanner1width}      width of 1st banner
-    {seriesbanner1height}     height of 1st banner
-    {seriesbanner1path}       path of 1st banner
-    {seriesbanner2width}      width of 2nd banner
-    {seriesbanner2height}     height of 2nd banner
-    {seriesbanner2path}       path of 2nd banner
-    {seriesbanner3width}      width of 3rd banner
-    {seriesbanner3height}     height of 3rd banner
-    {seriesbanner3path}       path of 3rd fanart
-    {actors[]}                array with movie actors
-    {actors[name]}            real name of actor
-    {actors[role]}            actor role
-    {actors[thumb]}           absolute path of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbwidth]}      width of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbheight]}     height of scraped actor thumb
-    -->
-
-    <!-- a tab is one scrolling area, just position and draw as inside a normal area -->
     <tab name="Info" x="2%" y="20%" width="94%" height="65%" layer="2" scrollheight="{areaheight}/4">
         <drawtextbox condition="not{isseries}++not{ismovie}" x="0" y="0" width="96%" font="{light}" fontsize="8%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{description}" />
         <drawimage condition="{isseries}" name="seriesposter" imagetype="image" path="{seriesposter1path}" x="{areawidth}*0.7" y="0" width="{areawidth}*0.3" height="{areawidth} * 0.3 * {seriesposter1height} / {seriesposter1width}"/>
@@ -308,11 +132,6 @@
         <drawimage condition="{movieiscollection}" name="collectionposter" imagetype="image" path="{collectionposterpath}" align="center" y="{posy(collectionfanart)} + {height(collectionfanart)} + 20" width="{areawidth}*0.6" height="{areawidth} * 0.6 * {collectionposterheight} / {collectionposterwidth}"/>
     </tab>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables tablabels:
-    {tabs[]}                array with available tab labels
-    {tabs[title]}           title of tab
-    {tabs[current]}         true if tab is displayed currently
-    -->
     <tablabels>
         <area x="0" y="85%" width="98%" height="5%" layer="3">
             <loop name="tabs" x="0" y="0" orientation="horizontal">
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudetailtext.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudetailtext.xml
index 5fd8997..59cda9b 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudetailtext.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenudetailtext.xml
@@ -18,28 +18,7 @@
             <drawtext align="center" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="60%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{time}" />
         </area>
     </datetime>
-    <!-- Available Variables colorbuttons:
-    {red1}                    true if red button is button 1
-    {red2}                    true if red button is button 2
-    {red3}                    true if red button is button 3
-    {red4}                    true if red button is button 4
-    {green1}                  true if green button is button 1
-    {green2}                  true if green button is button 2
-    {green3}                  true if green button is button 3
-    {green4}                  true if green button is button 4
-    {yellow1}                 true if yellow button is button 1
-    {yellow2}                 true if yellow button is button 2
-    {yellow3}                 true if yellow button is button 3
-    {yellow4}                 true if yellow button is button 4
-    {blue1}                   true if blue button is button 1
-    {blue2}                   true if blue button is button 2
-    {blue3}                   true if blue button is button 3
-    {blue4}                   true if blue button is button 4
-    {red}                     label of red button
-    {green}                   label of green button
-    {yellow}                  label of yellow button
-    {blue}                    label of blue button
-    -->
+    
     <colorbuttons>
         <area x="0" y="92%" width="25%" height="8%" layer="2">
             <drawtext condition="{red1}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{red}" />
@@ -90,10 +69,7 @@
         </area>
     </scrollbar>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables in tab elements:
-    {text}                    detailed text
-    -->
     <tab name="text" x="2%" y="10%" width="94%" height="80%" layer="2" scrollheight="{areaheight}/4">
         <drawtextbox x="0" y="0" width="96%" font="{light}" fontsize="5%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{text}" />
     </tab>
-</menudetailedtext>
\ No newline at end of file
+</menudetailedtext>
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenumain.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenumain.xml
index 775b435..7bd8e33 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenumain.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenumain.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 <menumain x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" fadetime="0">
-    <!-- 
-    static content of main menu, is only drawn once at main menu startup
-    -->
     <background>
         <!-- main menu background -->
         <area x="0" y="0" width="71%" height="70%" layer="1">
@@ -13,26 +10,13 @@
             <drawrectangle x="53%" y="0" width="47%" height="100%" color="{clrTransBlack}" />
         </area>
     </background>
-    <!-- Available Variables header:
-    {title}                   title of current menu
-    {vdrversion}              running VDR Version
-    -->
+
     <header>
         <area x="0" y="0" width="70%" height="7%" layer="2">
             <drawtext x="10" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="100%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{title} {vdrversion}" />
         </area>
     </header>
-    <!-- Available Variables datetime:
-    {time}                              time in hh:mm
-    {day}                               day in digits
-    {dayleadingzero}                    day in digits with leading 0
-    {dayname}                           Full name of the day
-    {daynameshort}                      Short 3 char name of the day
-    {month}                             month in digits with leading 0
-    {monthname}                         Full name of the month
-    {monthnameshort}                    3 letter abbrivation of month name  
-    {year}                              year in yyyy
-    -->
+
     <datetime>
         <area x="75%" y="0" width="13%" height="10%" layer="3">
             <drawtext align="right" y="0%" font="{light}" fontsize="55%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{dayname}" />
@@ -43,28 +27,6 @@
         </area>
     </datetime>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables colorbuttons:
-    {red1}                    true if red button is button 1
-    {red2}                    true if red button is button 2
-    {red3}                    true if red button is button 3
-    {red4}                    true if red button is button 4
-    {green1}                  true if green button is button 1
-    {green2}                  true if green button is button 2
-    {green3}                  true if green button is button 3
-    {green4}                  true if green button is button 4
-    {yellow1}                 true if yellow button is button 1
-    {yellow2}                 true if yellow button is button 2
-    {yellow3}                 true if yellow button is button 3
-    {yellow4}                 true if yellow button is button 4
-    {blue1}                   true if blue button is button 1
-    {blue2}                   true if blue button is button 2
-    {blue3}                   true if blue button is button 3
-    {blue4}                   true if blue button is button 4
-    {red}                     label of red button
-    {green}                   label of green button
-    {yellow}                  label of yellow button
-    {blue}                    label of blue button
-    -->
     <colorbuttons>
         <area x="0" y="63%" width="18%" height="7%" layer="2">
             <drawtext condition="{red1}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{red}" />
@@ -107,20 +69,7 @@
             <drawrectangle condition="{blue4}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrBlue}" />
         </area>
     </colorbuttons>
-    <!-- Available Variables timers:
-    {numtimers}                  number of active timers (max. 15 timers will be displayed)
-    {numtimerconflicts}          number of current timer conflicts
 
-    {timers[]}                   array with active timers (local and remote if remotetimers plugin is in use)
-    {timers[title]}              title of timer
-    {timers[datetime]}           date and time of timer
-    {timers[recording]}          true if timer is recording currently
-    {timers[channelname]}        name of channel for which timer is created
-    {timers[channelnumber]}      number of channel
-    {timers[channelid]}          ChannelID of channel
-    {timers[channellogoexists]}  true if channel logo exists
-    {timers[isremotetimer]}      true if timer is a remote timer from remotetimers plugin
-    -->
     <timers detached="true" delay="100" shifttime="{shifttimetimers}" startx="0" starty="100%">
         <area x="0" y="75%" width="{areawidth}/8 - 5" height="25%" layer="1">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlack}" />
@@ -167,14 +116,6 @@
         </area>
     </timers>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables discusage:
-    {freetime}                available disc capacity in hh:mm
-    {freepercent}             available disc capacity in percent
-    {usedpercent}             used disc capacity in percent
-    {freegb}                  available disc capacity in gigabytes
-    {discalert}               true if disc usage is > 95%
-    {vdrusagestring}          localized VDR internal usage string
-    -->
     <discusage detached="true" delay="100" fadetime="0">
         <area background="true" x="75%" y="26%" width="25%" height="10%" layer="1">
             <fill condition="not{discalert}" color="{clrTransBlack}"/>
@@ -187,26 +128,6 @@
         </area>
     </discusage>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables currentweather:
-    {timestamp}                 timestamp of forecast in dd.mm hh:mm
-    {temperature}               current temperature in °C
-    {apparenttemperature}       apparent (feeled) temperature
-    {mintemperature}            minimum daily temperature in °C
-    {maxtemperature}            maximum daily temperature in °C
-    {summary}                   short weather summary
-    {icon}                      weather icon 
-    {precipitationintensity}    precipitation intensity in l/m2
-    {precipitationprobability}  precipitation probability in %
-    {precipitationtype}         precipitation type
-    {humidity}                  humidity in %
-    {windspeed}                 windspeed in km/h
-    {windbearing}               wind bearing in °
-    {windbearingstring}         wind bearing (N, NE, ...)
-    {visibility}                visibility in km
-    {cloudcover}                cloud cover in %
-    {pressure}                  pressure in HPo
-    {ozone}                     ozone value in DU
-    -->
     <currentweather detached="true" delay="100" fadetime="0">
         <area x="75%" y="13%" width="25%" height="10%" layer="2">
             <drawrectangle x="0" y="0" width="53%" height="100%" color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
@@ -224,23 +145,6 @@
         </area>
     </currentweather>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables devices:
-    {numdevices}                number of available devices
-    {devices[]}                 array with available devices
-    {devices[num]}              number of current device
-    {devices[type]}             type of device (DVB-S, DVB-C, ...)
-    {devices[istuned]}          true if device is currently tuned to a transponder
-    {devices[livetv]}           true if device is currently playing livetv
-    {devices[recording]}        true if device is currently recording
-    {devices[hascam]}           true if device has a CAM
-    {devices[cam]}              number of CAM
-    {devices[signalstrength]}   signalstrength of devcie
-    {devices[signalquality]}    signalstrength of devcie
-    {devices[channelnumber]}    number of the currently tuned channel
-    {devices[channelname]}      name of the currently tuned channel
-    {devices[channelid]}        ID of the currently tuned channel
-    {devices[source]}           source of the currently tuned channel
-    -->
     <devices condition="{showdevices}" detached="true" delay="100" fadetime="0">
         <area background="true" x="75%" y="48%" width="25%" height="{areaheight}/12 * {numdevices}" layer="1">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlack}"/>
@@ -259,9 +163,6 @@
         </area>
     </devices>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables systemload:
-    {load}                      current system load
-    -->
     <systemload detached="true" delay="100" fadetime="0">
         <area background="true" x="75%" y="40%" width="25%" height="5%" layer="1">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlack}"/>
@@ -271,23 +172,10 @@
         </area>
     </systemload>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables customtokens:
-    all custom tokens set by the svdrp command SCTK are available in this viewelement
-    For instance, use an appropriate script which runs periodically as cronjob and
-    sets these custom tokens with svdrpsend or dbus2vdr
-    --> 
     <customtokens>
     </customtokens>
 
-    <menuitems x="0" y="7%" orientation="vertical" width="70%" height="56%" align="center" numlistelements="8">
-        <!-- Available Variables main menu listelement:
-        {nummenuitem}             number of item in list, starts with 1
-        {label}                   label of menu item
-        {number}                  number of menu item (or empty string if not set)
-        {icon}                    path of appropriate icon
-        {current}                 true if item is currently selected 
-        {separator}               true if item is a list separator 
-        -->
+    <menuitems condition="strequal({mainmenuorientation}, 'vertical')" x="0" y="7%" orientation="vertical" width="70%" height="56%" align="center" numlistelements="8">
         <listelement>
             <area x="0" width="60%" layer="2">
                 <fill condition="not{current}" color="{clrTransparent}" />
@@ -297,12 +185,6 @@
                 <drawtext name="menutext" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="90%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{number} {label}" />
             </areascroll>
         </listelement>
-        <!-- additional element which is drawn for current element -->
-        <!-- Available Variables main menu currentelement:
-        {label}                   label of menu item
-        {number}                  number of menu item (or empty string if not set)
-        {icon}                    path of appropriate icon
-        -->
         <currentelement delay="50" fadetime="0">
             <area x="61%" y="22%" width="36%" height="52%" layer="2">
                 <fill color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
@@ -312,8 +194,30 @@
             </area>
         </currentelement>
     </menuitems>
-    
-    <scrollbar>
+
+    <menuitems condition="strequal({mainmenuorientation}, 'horizontal')" x="0" y="7%" orientation="horizontal" width="70%" height="56%" align="center" numlistelements="1">
+        <listelement>
+            <area y="10%" height="80%" layer="2">
+                <drawrectangle condition="{current}" x="20%" y="0" width="60%" height="100%" color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
+            </area>
+            <area y="10%" height="80%" layer="3">
+                <drawimage condition="{current}" imagetype="menuicon" path="{icon}" align="center" y="10%" width="{areaheight}*0.6" height="{areaheight}*0.6"/>
+            </area>
+            <areascroll scrollelement="menutext" mode="forthandback" orientation="horizontal" delay="1000" scrollspeed="medium" y="70%" height="20%" layer="4">
+                <drawtext name="menutext" align="center" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="90%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{label}" />
+            </areascroll>
+        </listelement>
+    </menuitems>
+
+    <scrollbar condition="strequal({mainmenuorientation}, 'horizontal')">
+        <area condition="{hasprev}" x="0" y="7%" width="14%" height="56%" layer="2">
+            <drawimage imagetype="icon" path="ico_arrow_left" align="center" valign="center" width="{areawidth}*0.8" height="{areawidth}*0.8"/>
+        </area>
+        <area condition="{hasnext}" x="56%" y="7%" width="14%" height="56%" layer="2">
+            <drawimage imagetype="icon" path="ico_arrow_right" align="center" valign="center" width="{areawidth}*0.8" height="{areawidth}*0.8"/>
+        </area>
+    </scrollbar>
+    <scrollbar condition="strequal({mainmenuorientation}, 'vertical')">
         <area x="68%" y="7%" width="2%" height="56%" layer="2">
             <fill color="{clrWhite}" />
             <drawrectangle x="2" y="2" width="{areawidth} - 4" height="{areaheight} - 4" color="{clrTransparent}" />
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenurecordings.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenurecordings.xml
index 6e8f527..9cef713 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenurecordings.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenurecordings.xml
@@ -1,39 +1,49 @@
 <menurecordings x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" fadetime="0">
-    <menuitems x="0" y="10%" orientation="vertical" width="100%" height="82%" align="center" numlistelements="16">
-        <!-- Available Variables recordings menu listelement:
-        {nummenuitem}           number of item in list, starts with 1
-        {name}                  Name of recording
-        {epgname}               Name of recording (Name from EPG)
-        {shorttext}             Short Text of recording
-        {description}           Descrption of recording
-        {date}                  Date of recording (day dd.mm.yyyy)
-        {time}                  Time of recording
-        {daynumeric}            day as number
-        {month}                 month as number
-        {year}                  year as number
-        {duration}              real duration of recording in minutes
-        {durationhours}         real duration, full hours
-        {durationminutes}       real duration, rest of minutes
-        {durationevent}         duration of corresponding event in minutes
-        {durationeventhours}    event duration, full hours
-        {durationeventminutes}  event duration, rest of minutes
-        {current}               true if item is currently selected
-        {new}                   true if recording is new
-        {percentseen}           percent already watched, -1 for VDR < 2.1.8
-        {watched}               true if percentseen > 85% including MarginStop of not cutted recording 
-        {cutted}                true if recording is cutted
-        {folder}                true if item is a folder
-        {numrecordingsfolder}   if item is a folder, number of recordings in this folder
-        {newrecordingsfolder}   if item is a folder, number of new recordings in this folder
-        {hasposterthumbnail}    true if a scraped poster thumbnail is available for recording
-        {thumbnailbwidth}       width of scraped poster thumbnail
-        {thumbnailheight}       height of scraped poster thumbnail
-        {thumbnailpath}         absolute path of scraped poster thumbnail
-        {hasposter}             true if a scraped poster is available for recording
-        {posterwidth}           width of scraped poster
-        {posterheight}          height of scraped poster
-        {posterpath}            absolute path of scraped poster
-         -->
+
+    <background condition="strequal({recmenuorientation}, 'horizontal')">
+        <!-- horizontal menu -->
+        <area x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="10%" layer="1">
+            <fill color="{clrTransBlack}" />
+        </area>
+        <area x="0" y="60%" width="100%" height="40%" layer="1">
+            <fill color="{clrTransBlack}" />
+        </area>
+        <area x="5%" y="10%" width="90%" height="50%" layer="1">
+            <fill color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
+        </area>
+    </background>
+
+    <header condition="strequal({recmenuorientation}, 'horizontal')">
+        <!-- horizontal menu -->
+        <area x="0" y="0" width="70%" height="10%" layer="2">
+            <drawtext condition="not{hasicon}" x="5" width="{areawidth}-10" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{title}" />
+            <drawimage condition="{hasicon}" name="menuicon" imagetype="menuicon" path="{icon}" x="5" valign="center" width="{areaheight}*8/10" height="80%"/>
+            <drawtext condition="{hasicon}" x="{areaheight}" valign="center" width="{areawidth}-{areaheight}-10" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{title}" />
+        </area>
+    </header>
+
+    <datetime condition="strequal({recmenuorientation}, 'horizontal')">
+        <!-- horizontal menu -->
+        <area x="70%" y="0" width="15%" height="10%" layer="2">
+            <drawtext align="right" y="5%" font="{light}" fontsize="50%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{dayname}" />
+            <drawtext align="right" y="45%" font="{light}" fontsize="50%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{day}. {monthnameshort}" />
+        </area>
+        <area x="85%" y="0" width="15%" height="10%" layer="2">
+            <drawtext align="center" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{time}" />
+        </area>
+    </datetime>
+
+    <sortmode condition="strequal({recmenuorientation}, 'horizontal')">
+        <!-- horizontal menu -->
+        <area x="60%" y="2%" width="6%" height="6%" layer="4">
+            <drawimage condition="{sortnumber}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_sort_number" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%"/>
+            <drawimage condition="{sortname}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_sort_name" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%"/>
+            <drawimage condition="{sorttime}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_sort_time" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%"/>
+            <drawimage condition="{sortprovider}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_sort_provider" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%"/>
+        </area>
+    </sortmode>
+
+    <menuitems condition="strequal({recmenuorientation}, 'vertical')" x="0" y="10%" orientation="vertical" width="100%" height="82%" align="center" numlistelements="16">
         <listelement>
             <!-- Background -->
             <area x="1%" width="58%" layer="2">
@@ -55,33 +65,6 @@
                 <drawimage condition="not{new}++{cutted}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_cutted" x="{areawidth} - {areaheight}" width="0.9*{areaheight}" height="0.9*{areaheight}" valign="center" />
             </area>
         </listelement>
-        <!-- additional element which is drawn for current element -->
-        <!-- Available Variables channels menu currentelement:
-        {name}                  Real Name of recording (Name of Recording Folder)
-        {epgname}               Name of recording (Name from EPG)
-        {shorttext}             Short Text of recording
-        {description}           Descrption of recording        
-        {date}                  Date of recording
-        {time}                  Time of recording
-        {daynumeric}            day as number
-        {month}                 month as number
-        {year}                  year as number
-        {duration}              real duration of recording in minutes
-        {durationhours}         real duration, full hours
-        {durationminutes}       real duration, rest of minutes
-        {durationevent}         duration of corresponding event in minutes
-        {durationeventhours}    event duration, full hours
-        {durationeventminutes}  event duration, rest of minutes
-        {new}                   true if recording is new
-        {cutted}                true if recording is cutted
-        {folder}                true if item is a folder
-        {numrecordingsfolder}   if item is a folder, number of recordings in this folder
-        {newrecordingsfolder}   if item is a folder, number of new recordings in this folder
-        {hasposter}             true if a scraped poster is available for recording
-        {posterwidth}           width of scraped poster
-        {posterheight}          height of scraped poster
-        {posterpath}            absolute path of scraped poster
-        -->
         <currentelement delay="500" fadetime="0">
             <area x="63%" y="0" width="36%" height="100%" layer="2">
                 <!-- header -->
@@ -96,15 +79,104 @@
             </area>
         </currentelement>
     </menuitems>
-    <!-- Available Variables colorbuttons:
-    {height}                  height in one-tenth of a percent of total height
-    {offset}                  offset from top in one-tenth of a percent of total height
-    -->
-    <scrollbar>
+
+    <menuitems condition="strequal({recmenuorientation}, 'horizontal')" x="0" y="10%" orientation="horizontal" width="100%" height="82%" align="center" numlistelements="10">
+        <listelement>
+            <!-- Background -->
+            <area y="64%" height="36%" layer="2">
+                <fill condition="not{current}" color="{clrTransparent}" />
+                <fill condition="{current}" color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
+                <fill condition="{separator}" color="{clrSemiTransBlack}" />
+            </area>
+            <!-- recording folder -->
+            <area condition="{folder}" y="64%" height="36%" layer="3">
+                <drawimage name="foldericon" imagetype="icon" path="ico_recfolder" align="center" y="0" width="0.6*{areaheight} * 92 / 136" height="0.6*{areaheight}" />
+                <drawtextbox align="center" valign="center" maxlines="3" x="1%" y="63%" width="98%" height="37%" font="{light}" fontsize="12%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{name} ({numrecordingsfolder}, {newrecordingsfolder} new)" />
+            </area>
+            <!-- recording item -->
+            <area condition="not{folder}" y="64%" height="36%" layer="3">
+                <drawimage condition="{hasposterthumbnail}" imagetype="image" path="{thumbnailpath}" align="center" y="8" width="{areaheight}*0.6 * {thumbnailbwidth} / {thumbnailheight}" height="{areaheight}*0.6"/>
+                <drawimage condition="not{hasposterthumbnail}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_recording" align="center" y="8" width="{areaheight}*0.5 * {thumbnailbwidth} / {thumbnailheight}" height="{areaheight}*0.6"/>
+                <drawtextbox align="center" valign="center" maxlines="3" x="1%" y="63%" width="98%" height="37%" font="{light}" fontsize="12%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{name}" />
+            </area>
+        </listelement>
+        <currentelement delay="500" fadetime="0">
+            <area x="5%" y="0" width="90%" height="61%" layer="2">
+                <!-- scraper poster -->
+                <drawimage condition="{hasposter}" name="poster" imagetype="image" path="{posterpath}" x="1%" y="2%" width="{areaheight}*0.96 * {posterwidth} / {posterheight}" height="96%"/>
+                <!-- header -->
+                <drawtext condition="{hasposter}" name="title" x="{width(poster)} + 0.04*{areawidth}" y="0" font="{semibold}" fontsize="10%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{epgname}" />
+                <drawtext condition="{hasposter}" name="shorttext" x="{width(poster)} + 0.04*{areawidth}" y="{height(title)}" width="0.96*{areawidth} - {width(poster)}" font="{semibold}" fontsize="8%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{shorttext}" />
+                <drawtext condition="{hasposter}" name="datetime" x="{width(poster)} + 0.04*{areawidth}" y="{posy(shorttext)} + {height(shorttext)}" font="{light}" fontsize="7%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{date} {time}, {duration} min" />
+
+                <drawtext condition="not{hasposter}" name="title" x="2%" y="0" font="{semibold}" fontsize="10%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{epgname}" />
+                <drawtext condition="not{hasposter}" name="shorttext" x="2%" y="{height(title)}" width="98%" font="{semibold}" fontsize="8%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{shorttext}" />
+                <drawtext condition="not{hasposter}" name="datetime" x="2%" y="{posy(shorttext)} + {height(shorttext)}" font="{light}" fontsize="7%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{date} {time}, {duration} min" />
+                <!-- description -->
+                <drawtextbox condition="{hasposter}" x="{width(poster)} + 0.04*{areawidth}" y="{posy(datetime)} + {height(datetime)} + 10" width="{areawidth}*0.94 - {width(poster)}" height="{areaheight}*0.92 - {posy(datetime)}" font="{light}" fontsize="7%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{description}" />
+                <drawtextbox condition="not{hasposter}" x="2%" y="{posy(datetime)} + {height(datetime)} + 10" width="{areawidth}*0.98" height="{areaheight}*0.92 - {posy(datetime)}" font="{light}" fontsize="7%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{description}" />
+            </area>
+        </currentelement>
+    </menuitems>
+
+    <scrollbar condition="strequal({recmenuorientation}, 'vertical')">
         <area x="60%" y="10%" width="2%" height="82%" layer="3">
             <fill color="{clrWhite}" />
             <drawrectangle x="2" y="2" width="{areawidth} - 4" height="{areaheight} - 4" color="{clrTransparent}" />
             <drawrectangle x="4" y="4 + {areaheight} * {offset} / 1000" width="{areawidth} - 8" height="{areaheight} * {height} / 1000 - 8" color="{clrWhite}" />
         </area>
     </scrollbar>
-</menurecordings>
\ No newline at end of file
+
+    <scrollbar condition="strequal({recmenuorientation}, 'horizontal')">
+        <area x="0" y="{areaheight}*0.6" width="100%" height="{areaheight}*0.025" layer="3">
+            <fill color="{clrWhite}" />
+            <drawrectangle x="2" y="2" width="{areawidth} - 4" height="{areaheight} - 4" color="{clrTransparent}" />
+            <drawrectangle x="4 + {areawidth} * {offset} / 1000" y="4" width="{areawidth} * {height} / 1000 - 8" height="{areaheight} - 8" color="{clrWhite}" />
+        </area>
+    </scrollbar>
+
+    <colorbuttons condition="strequal({recmenuorientation}, 'horizontal')">
+        <!-- horizontal menu -->
+        <area x="0" y="92%" width="25%" height="8%" layer="2">
+            <drawtext condition="{red1}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{red}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{red1}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrRed}" />
+            <drawtext condition="{green1}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{green}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{green1}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrGreen}" />
+            <drawtext condition="{yellow1}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{yellow}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{yellow1}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrYellow}" />
+            <drawtext condition="{blue1}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{blue}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{blue1}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrBlue}" />
+        </area>
+        <area x="25%" y="92%" width="25%" height="8%" layer="2">
+            <drawtext condition="{red2}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{red}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{red2}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrRed}" />
+            <drawtext condition="{green2}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{green}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{green2}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrGreen}" />
+            <drawtext condition="{yellow2}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{yellow}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{yellow2}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrYellow}" />
+            <drawtext condition="{blue2}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{blue}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{blue2}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrBlue}" />
+        </area>
+        <area x="50%" y="92%" width="25%" height="8%" layer="2">
+            <drawtext condition="{red3}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{red}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{red3}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrRed}" />
+            <drawtext condition="{green3}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{green}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{green3}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrGreen}" />
+            <drawtext condition="{yellow3}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{yellow}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{yellow3}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrYellow}" />
+            <drawtext condition="{blue3}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{blue}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{blue3}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrBlue}" />
+        </area>
+        <area x="75%" y="92%" width="25%" height="8%" layer="2">
+            <drawtext condition="{red4}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{red}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{red4}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrRed}" />
+            <drawtext condition="{green4}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{green}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{green4}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrGreen}" />
+            <drawtext condition="{yellow4}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{yellow}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{yellow4}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrYellow}" />
+            <drawtext condition="{blue4}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{blue}" />
+            <drawrectangle condition="{blue4}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrBlue}" />
+        </area>
+    </colorbuttons>
+
+</menurecordings>
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenuschedules.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenuschedules.xml
index d1f0428..b32ea99 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenuschedules.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenuschedules.xml
@@ -1,18 +1,4 @@
 <menuschedules x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" fadetime="0">
-    <!-- Available Variables header:
-    {title}                         title of current menu
-    {vdrversion}                    running VDR Version
-    {hasicon}                       true if a menu icon is available
-    {icon}                          path of menu icon
-    {channelnumber}                 Number of Channel of current event
-    {channelname}                   Name of current Channel of current event
-    {channellogoexists}             true if a channel logo exists 
-    {channelid}                     ChannelID as path to display channel logo
-    {whatson}                       true if menu "What's on" is displayed
-    {whatsonnow}                    true if menu "What's on now" is displayed
-    {whatsonnext}                   true if menu "What's on next" is displayed
-    {whatsonfavorites}              true if EPGSearch Favorites menu is displayed
-    -->
     <header>
         <area x="0" y="0" width="38%" height="10%" layer="2">
             <drawimage condition="{whatsonnow}||{whatsonnext}||{whatsonfavorites}" name="menuicon" imagetype="menuicon" path="{icon}" x="5" valign="center" width="{areaheight}*8/10" height="80%"/>
@@ -23,36 +9,6 @@
     </header>
 
     <menuitems x="0" y="10%" orientation="vertical" width="100%" height="82%" align="center" numlistelements="16">
-        <!-- Available Variables schedules menu listelement:
-        {nummenuitem}             number of item in list, starts with 1
-        {title}                   title of event
-        {shorttext}               shorttext of event
-        {start}                   event start time in hh::mm
-        {stop}                    event stop time
-        {day}                     day of current event as three letter abrivation
-        {date}                    date of current event in dd.mm.yy
-        {daynumeric}              day as number
-        {month}                   month as number
-        {year}                    year as number
-        {running}                 true if event is currently running
-        {elapsed}                 elapsed time of event, if not running 0
-        {duration}                duration of event
-        {durationhours}           duration, full hours
-        {durationminutes}         duration, rest of minutes
-        {current}                 true if item is currently selected 
-        {separator}               true if item is a list separator 
-        {channelname}             Channel Name
-        {channelnumber}           Channel Number
-        {channelid}               ChannelID as path to display channel logo
-        {channellogoexists}       true if a channel logo exists 
-        {whatson}                 true if menu "What's on" is displayed
-        {whatsonnow}              true if menu "What's on now" is displayed
-        {whatsonnext}             true if menu "What's on next" is displayed
-        {whatsonfavorites}        true if EPGSearch Favorites menu is displayed
-        {timerpartitial}          true if partitial timer is set for the event
-        {timerfull}               true if full timer is set for the event
-        {hasVPS}                  true if event has VPS information
-        -->
         <listelement>
             <!-- Background -->
             <area x="1%" width="58%" layer="2">
@@ -132,42 +88,6 @@
                 <drawtext x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="95%" color="{clrBlueLight}" text="{title}" />
             </area>
         </listelement>
-        <!-- additional element which is drawn for current element -->
-        <!-- Available Variables schedules menu currentelement:
-        {title}                   title of event
-        {shorttext}               shorttext of event
-        {description}             detailed description of event
-        {start}                   event start time in hh::mm
-        {stop}                    event stop time
-        {day}                     day of current event
-        {date}                    date of current event in dd.mm.yy
-        {daynumeric}              day as number
-        {month}                   month as number
-        {year}                    year as number
-        {running}                 true if event is currently running
-        {elapsed}                 elapsed time of event, if not running 0
-        {duration}                duration of event
-        {durationhours}           duration, full hours
-        {durationminutes}         duration, rest of minutes
-        {channelname}             Channel Name
-        {channelnumber}           Channel Number
-        {channelid}               ChannelID as path to display channel logo
-        {channellogoexists}       true if a channel logo exists 
-        {hasposter}               true if a scraped poster is available for this element
-        {posterwidth}             width of scraped poster
-        {posterheight}            height of scraped poster
-        {posterpath}              absolute path of scraped poster
-        {timerpartitial}          true if partitial timer is set for the event
-        {timerfull}               true if full timer is set for the event
-        {whatson}                 true if menu "What's on" is displayed
-        {whatsonnow}              true if menu "What's on now" is displayed
-        {whatsonnext}             true if menu "What's on next" is displayed
-        {schedule[]}              array with next 10 schedules, only for whatsonnow and whatsonnext
-        {schedule[title]}         title of event
-        {schedule[shorttext]}     shorttext of event
-        {schedule[start]}         start time of event in hh:mm
-        {schedule[stop]}          stop time of event in hh:mm
-        -->
         <currentelement delay="500" fadetime="0">
             <area condition="{whatson}" x="63%" y="0" width="36%" height="100%" layer="2">
                 <!-- title -->
@@ -211,10 +131,7 @@
             </areacontainer>
         </currentelement>
     </menuitems>
-    <!-- Available Variables scrollbar:
-    {height}                  height in one-tenth of a percent of total height
-    {offset}                  offset from top in one-tenth of a percent of total height
-    -->
+    
     <scrollbar>
         <area x="60%" y="10%" width="2%" height="82%" layer="3">
             <fill color="{clrWhite}" />
@@ -222,4 +139,4 @@
             <drawrectangle x="4" y="4 + {areaheight} * {offset} / 1000" width="{areawidth} - 8" height="{areaheight} * {height} / 1000 - 8" color="{clrWhite}" />
         </area>
     </scrollbar>
-</menuschedules>
\ No newline at end of file
+</menuschedules>
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenusetup.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenusetup.xml
index d2fc400..4e2ae0f 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenusetup.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenusetup.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
 <menusetup x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" fadetime="0">
-    <!-- 
-    static content of main menu, is only drawn once at main menu startup
-    -->
     <background>
         <area x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" layer="1">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlack}" />
@@ -10,27 +7,14 @@
             <drawrectangle x="0" y="0" width="52%" height="100%" color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
         </area>
     </background>
-    <!-- Available Variables header:
-    {title}                   title of current menu
-    {vdrversion}              running VDR Version
-    {icon}                    icon path
-    -->
+    
     <header>
         <area x="0" y="0" width="70%" height="7%" layer="2">
             <drawimage name="menuicon" imagetype="menuicon" path="{icon}" x="5" valign="center" width="{areaheight}*8/10" height="80%"/>
             <drawtext x="{areaheight}" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{title}" />
         </area>
     </header>
-    <!-- Available Variables datetime:
-    {time}                              time in hh:mm
-    {day}                               day in digits
-    {dayleadingzero}                    day in digits with leading 0
-    {dayname}                           Full name of the day
-    {daynameshort}                      Short 3 char name of the day
-    {month}                             month in digits with leading 0
-    {monthname}                         Full name of the month
-    {year}                              year in yyyy
-    -->
+    
     <datetime>
         <area x="84%" y="0" width="8%" height="7%" layer="3">
             <drawtext align="right" y="0%" font="{light}" fontsize="55%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{dayname}" />
@@ -41,12 +25,6 @@
         </area>
     </datetime>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables colorbuttons:
-    {red}                     label of red button
-    {green}                   label of green button
-    {yellow}                  label of yellow button
-    {blue}                    label of blue button 
-    -->
     <colorbuttons>
         <area x="0" y="93%" width="25%" height="7%" layer="2">
             <drawtext x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{red}" />
@@ -67,14 +45,6 @@
     </colorbuttons>
 
     <menuitems x="0" y="7%" orientation="vertical" width="98%" height="86%" align="center" numlistelements="10">
-        <!-- Available Variables setup menu listelement:
-        {nummenuitem}             number of item in list, starts with 1
-        {label}                   label of menu item
-        {number}                  number of menu item (or empty string if not set)
-        {icon}                    path of appropriate icon
-        {current}                 true if item is currently selected 
-        {separator}               true if item is a list separator 
-        -->
         <listelement>
             <area x="0" width="60%" layer="2">
                 <fill condition="not{current}" color="{clrTransparent}" />
@@ -84,12 +54,6 @@
                 <drawtext name="menutext" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="90%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{number} {label}" />
             </areascroll>
         </listelement>
-        <!-- additional element which is drawn for current element -->
-        <!-- Available Variables main menu currentelement:
-        {label}                   label of menu item
-        {number}                  number of menu item (or empty string if not set)
-        {icon}                    path of appropriate icon
-        -->
         <currentelement delay="50" fadetime="0">
             <area x="61%" y="30%" width="37%" height="36%" layer="2">
                 <fill color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenutimers.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenutimers.xml
index 5eb453f..b9be696 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenutimers.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymenutimers.xml
@@ -1,28 +1,5 @@
 <menutimers x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" fadetime="0">
     <menuitems x="0" y="10%" orientation="vertical" width="100%" height="82%" align="center" numlistelements="16">
-        <!-- Available Variables channels menu listelement:
-        {nummenuitem}       number of item in list, starts with 1
-        {title}             Title of Timer
-        {timerstart}        Start Time of Timer in hh::mm
-        {timerstop}         End Time of Timer in hh::mm
-        {day}               Day (numerical)
-        {dayname}           Day, for repeating timers days where timer is active
-        {month}             Month (two digits)
-        {monthname}         Month, three letter abbrevation
-        {year}              Year (4 digits)
-        {channelname}       Name of channel which is set for the timer
-        {channelid}         ID of channel which is set for the timer (for dispalying channel logo)
-        {channelnumber}     Number of channel which is set for the timer
-        {eventtitle}        Title of corresponding event
-        {eventstart}        Start Time of corresponding event in hh::mm
-        {eventstop}         Stop Time of corresponding event in hh::mm
-        {current}           true if item is currently selected
-        {flagactive}        true if timer is active
-        {flaginstant}       true if timer is an instant timer
-        {flagvps}           true if timer uses VPS
-        {flagrecording}     true if is recording currently
-        {flagpending}       true if timer is pending
-        -->
         <listelement>
             <!-- Background -->
             <area x="1%" width="58%" layer="2">
@@ -38,34 +15,6 @@
                 <drawtext name="timertext" x="10" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{dayname} {day}. {timerstart} - {timerstop}: {title}" />
             </areascroll>
         </listelement>
-        <!-- additional element which is drawn for current element -->
-        <!-- Available Variables channels menu currentelement:
-        {title}             Title of Timer
-        {timerstart}        Start Time of Timer in hh::mm
-        {timerstop}         End Time of Timer in hh::mm
-        {day}               Day (numerical)
-        {dayname}           Day, for repeating timers days where timer is active
-        {month}             Month (two digits)
-        {monthname}         Month, three letter abbrevation
-        {year}              Year (4 digits)
-        {channelname}       Name of channel which is set for the timer
-        {channelid}         ID of channel which is set for the timer (for dispalying channel logo)
-        {channelnumber}     Number of channel which is set for the timer
-        {eventtitle}        Title of corresponding event
-        {eventstart}        Start Time of corresponding event in hh::mm
-        {eventstop}         Stop Time of corresponding event in hh::mm
-        {eventshorttext}    Short Text corresponding event
-        {eventdescription}  Description corresponding event
-        {hasposter}         true if a scraped poster is available for event
-        {posterwidth}       width of scraped poster
-        {posterheight}      height of scraped poster
-        {posterpath}        absolute path of scraped poster
-        {flagactive}        true if timer is active
-        {flaginstant}       true if timer is an instant timer
-        {flagvps}           true if timer uses VPS
-        {flagrecording}     true if is recording currently
-        {flagpending}       true if timer is pending
-        -->
         <currentelement delay="500" fadetime="0">
             <area x="63%" y="0" width="36%" height="15%" layer="2">
                 <drawimage name="logo" imagetype="channellogo" path="{channelid}" x="10" y="0" width="30%" height="100%" />
@@ -83,10 +32,7 @@
             </area>
         </currentelement>
     </menuitems>
-    <!-- Available Variables colorbuttons:
-    {height}                  height in one-tenth of a percent of total height
-    {offset}                  offset from top in one-tenth of a percent of total height
-    -->
+    
     <scrollbar>
         <area x="60%" y="10%" width="2%" height="82%" layer="3">
             <fill color="{clrWhite}" />
@@ -94,4 +40,4 @@
             <drawrectangle x="4" y="4 + {areaheight} * {offset} / 1000" width="{areawidth} - 8" height="{areaheight} * {height} / 1000 - 8" color="{clrWhite}" />
         </area>
     </scrollbar>
-</menutimers>
\ No newline at end of file
+</menutimers>
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymessage.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymessage.xml
index 3a398bf..1ab2bd5 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymessage.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displaymessage.xml
@@ -8,13 +8,6 @@
         </area>
     </background>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables message:
-    {text}                     message text
-    {status}                   true if message is a status message
-    {info}                     true if message is a info message
-    {warning}                  true if message is a warn message
-    {error}                    true if message is a error message
-    -->
     <message>
         <area x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" layer="2">
             <drawrectangle condition="{status}" x="20" y="0" width="20" height="100%" color="{clrGreen}" />
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displayreplay.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displayreplay.xml
index 6993f9a..d2fa71b 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displayreplay.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displayreplay.xml
@@ -21,17 +21,6 @@
         </area>
     </backgroundmodeonly>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables datetime:
-    {time}                              time in hh:mm
-    {day}                               day in digits
-    {dayleadingzero}                    day in digits with leading 0
-    {dayname}                           Full name of the day
-    {daynameshort}                      Short 3 char name of the day
-    {month}                             month in digits with leading 0
-    {monthname}                         Full name of the month
-    {monthnameshort}                    3 letter abbrivation of month name
-    {year}                              year in yyyy
-    -->
     <datetime>
         <area x="70%" y="0" width="13%" height="13%" layer="2">
             <drawtext align="right" y="0" font="{light}" fontsize="50%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{dayname}" />
@@ -42,22 +31,6 @@
         </area>
     </datetime>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables scrapercontent:
-    {posterpath}                        Full Path of Poster to use in image path attribute
-    {posterwidth}                       width of poster in pixel
-    {posterheight}                      height of poster in pixel
-    {hasPoster}                         true if poster is available
-    {bannerpath}                        Full Path of banner to use in image path attribute
-    {bannerwidth}                       width of banner in pixel
-    {bannerheight}                      height of banner in pixel
-    {hasBanner}                         true if banner is available
-
-    Use this tokens if you want to display a banner for series and a poster for movies:
-    {mediapath}                         Full Path of Poster or Banner to use in image path attribute
-    {mediawidth}                        width of image in pixel
-    {mediaheight}                       height of image in pixel
-    {isbanner}                          true if image is a banner, false if it is a poster
-    -->
     <scrapercontent>
         <area condition="{isbanner}" x="0" y="0" width="{areaheight}*0.13*{mediawidth}/{mediaheight}" height="13%" layer="2">
             <drawimage imagetype="image" path="{mediapath}" align="center" valign="center"  width="{areawidth}" height="{areaheight}"/>
@@ -67,12 +40,6 @@
         </area>
     </scrapercontent>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables rectitle:
-    {rectitle}                     Title of Recording
-    {recsubtitle}                  Subtitle of the Recording
-    {recdate}                      Date Recording in dd.mm.yy
-    {rectime}                      Time of Recording in hh:mm
-    -->
     <rectitle>
         <area x="1%" y="80%" width="69%" height="8%" layer="2">
             <drawtext x="0" name="title" valign="center" width="{areawidth}" font="{semibold}" fontsize="85%" color="{clrBlueLight}" text="{rectitle}" />
@@ -80,14 +47,6 @@
         </area>
     </rectitle>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables recinfo:
-    {screenwidth}                      width of currently displayed recording in px
-    {screenheight}                     height of currently displayed recording in px
-    {resolution}                       resolution: hd1080i, hd720p, sd576i
-    {aspect}                           screen aspect, each 4:3, 16:9 or 21:9
-    {isHD}                             true for hd1080i and hd720p
-    {isWideScreen}                     true if aspect is 16:9 or 21:9
-    -->
     <recinfo>
         <area x="70%" y="80%" width="29%" height="8%" layer="2">
            <!-- widescreen icon -->
@@ -101,20 +60,12 @@
         </area>
     </recinfo>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables currenttime:
-    {reccurrent}                   Current Time in hh:mm:ss
-    -->
     <currenttime>
         <area x="1%" y="92%" width="30%" height="7%" layer="2">
             <drawtext x="0" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="100%" color="{clrTransBlueLight}" text="{reccurrent}" />
         </area>
     </currenttime>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables totaltime:
-    {rectotal}                   Total Time in hh:mm:ss
-    {timeshift}                  true if a timeshifted recording is displayed
-    {timeshifttotal}             Total Time of timeshift event in hh:mm
-    -->
     <totaltime>
         <area x="69%" y="92%" width="30%" height="7%" layer="2">
             <drawtext condition="not{timeshift}" align="right" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="100%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{rectotal}" />
@@ -122,20 +73,12 @@
         </area>
     </totaltime>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables endtime:
-    {recend}                     End Time in hh:mm
-    -->
     <endtime>
         <area x="63%" y="92%" width="20%" height="7%" layer="2">
             <drawtext align="center" valign="bottom" font="{light}" fontsize="60%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{tr(endsat)}: {recend}" />
         </area>
     </endtime>
-    <!-- Available Variables progressbar:
-    {current}                   current frame of recording
-    {total}                     total frames of recording
-    {timeshift}                 true if a timeshifted recording is displayed
-    {timeshifttotal}            total number of frames of timeshift event
-    -->
+    
     <progressbar>
         <area condition="not{timeshift}" x="5%" y="89%" width="90%" height="3%" layer="2">
             <fill color="{clrDarkGray}" />
@@ -148,16 +91,6 @@
         </area>
     </progressbar>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables cutmarks:
-    {timeshift}                 true if a timeshifted recording is displayed
-    {marks[]}                   array of available marks
-    {marks[position]}           frame of current mark
-    {marks[endposition]}        frame where startmark ends
-    {marks[total]}              total number of frames
-    {marks[timeshifttotal]}     total number of frames of timeshift event
-    {marks[active]}             true if current replay position hits exactly the mark
-    {marks[startmark]}          true if mark is start mark
-    -->
     <cutmarks>
         <area condition="not{timeshift}" x="5%" y="89%" width="90%" height="3%" layer="3">
             <loop name="marks" x="0" y="0" orientation="absolute">
@@ -197,18 +130,6 @@
         </area>
     </cutmarks>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables controlicons and controliconsmodeonly:
-    {play}              true if recording is played currently
-    {pause}             true if recording is paused
-    {forward}           true if fast forwarding 
-    {forward1x}         true if fast forwarding 1x (with 3 trickspeeds)
-    {forward2x}         true if fast forwarding 2x (with 3 trickspeeds)
-    {forward3x}         true if fast forwarding 3x (with 3 trickspeeds)
-    {rewind}            true if rewinding 
-    {rewind1x}          true if rewinding 1x (with 3 trickspeeds)
-    {rewind2x}          true if rewinding 2x (with 3 trickspeeds)
-    {rewind3x}          true if rewinding 3x (with 3 trickspeeds)
-    -->
     <controlicons>
         <area x="30%" y="93%" width="40%" height="7%" layer="3">
             <drawimage condition="not{rewind} ++ not{rewind1x} ++ not{rewind2x} ++ not{rewind3x}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_rew_off" x="{areawidth}/2 - 2*{areaheight}" y="0" width="{areaheight}" height="{areaheight}"/>
@@ -253,9 +174,6 @@
         </area>
     </controliconsmodeonly>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables jump:
-    {jump}                      time to jump to in hh:mm
-    -->
     <jump>
         <area x="35%" y="45%" width="30%" height="10%" layer="1">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlack}" />
@@ -265,114 +183,6 @@
         </area>
     </jump>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables onpause and onpausemodeonly:
-    {name}                    title of recording
-    {shorttext}               shorttext of recording
-    {description}             description of recording
-    {date}                    date of recording in dd.mm.yy
-    {time}                    time of recording in hh:mm
-    {daynumeric}              day as number
-    {month}                   month as number
-    {year}                    year as number
-    {duration}                real duration of recording in minutes
-    {durationhours}           real duration, full hours
-    {durationminutes}         real duration, rest of minutes
-    {durationevent}           duration of corresponding event in minutes
-    {durationeventhours}      event duration, full hours
-    {durationeventminutes}    event duration, rest of minutes
-
-    {ismovie}                 true if event is scraped as a movie
-    Available variables for movies:
-    {movietitle}              movie title from themoviedb
-    {movieoriginalTitle}      movie original title from themoviedb
-    {movietagline}            movie tagline from themoviedb
-    {movieoverview}           movie overview from themoviedb
-    {movieadult}              true if movie is rated as adult
-    {moviebudget}             movie budget from themoviedb in $
-    {movierevenue}            movie revenue from themoviedb in $
-    {moviegenres}             movie genres from themoviedb
-    {moviehomepage}           movie homepage from themoviedb
-    {moviereleasedate}        movie release date from themoviedb
-    {movieruntime}            movie runtime from themoviedb
-    {moviepopularity}         movie popularity from themoviedb
-    {movievoteaverage}        movie vote average from themoviedb
-    {posterwidth}             width of scraped poster
-    {posterheight}            height of scraped poster
-    {posterpath}              absolute path of scraped poster
-    {fanartwidth}             width of scraped fanart
-    {fanartheight}            height of scraped fanart
-    {fanartpath}              absolute path of scraped fanart
-    {movieiscollection}       true if movie is part of a collection
-    {moviecollectionName}     name of movie collection
-    {collectionposterwidth}   width of scraped collection poster
-    {collectionposterheight}  height of scraped collection poster
-    {collectionposterpath}    absolute path of scraped collection poster
-    {collectionfanartwidth}   width of scraped collection fanart
-    {collectionfanartheight}  height of scraped collection fanart
-    {collectionfanartpath}    absolute path of scraped collection fanart
-    {actors[]}                array with movie actors
-    {actors[name]}            real name of actor
-    {actors[role]}            actor role
-    {actors[thumb]}           absolute path of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbwidth]}      width of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbheight]}     height of scraped actor thumb
-
-    {isseries}                true if event is scraped as a series
-    Available variables for series:
-    {seriesname}              name of series
-    {seriesoverview}          series overview
-    {seriesfirstaired}        first aired date 
-    {seriesnetwork}           network which produces series
-    {seriesgenre}             series genre
-    {seriesrating}            series thetvdb rating
-    {seriesstatus}            status of series (running / finished)
-    {episodetitle}            title of episode
-    {episodenumber}           number of episode
-    {episodeseason}           season of episode
-    {episodefirstaired}       first aired date of episode
-    {episodegueststars}       guest stars of episode
-    {episodeoverview}         episode overview
-    {episoderating}           user rating for episode
-    {episodeimagewidth}       episode image width
-    {episodeimageheight}      episode image height
-    {episodeimagepath}        episode image path
-    {seasonposterwidth}       episode season poster width
-    {seasonposterheight}      episode season poster height
-    {seasonposterpath}        episode season poster path
-    {seriesposter1width}      width of 1st poster
-    {seriesposter1height}     height of 1st poster
-    {seriesposter1path}       path of 1st poster
-    {seriesposter2width}      width of 2nd poster
-    {seriesposter2height}     height of 2nd poster
-    {seriesposter2path}       path of 2nd poster
-    {seriesposter3width}      width of 3rd poster
-    {seriesposter3height}     height of 3rd poster
-    {seriesposter3path}       path of 3rd poster
-    {seriesfanart1width}      width of 1st fanart
-    {seriesfanart1height}     height of 1st fanart
-    {seriesfanart1path}       path of 1st fanart
-    {seriesfanart2width}      width of 2nd fanart
-    {seriesfanart2height}     height of 2nd fanart
-    {seriesfanart2path}       path of 2nd fanart
-    {seriesfanart3width}      width of 3rd fanart
-    {seriesfanart3height}     height of 3rd fanart
-    {seriesfanart3path}       path of 3rd fanart
-    {seriesbanner1width}      width of 1st banner
-    {seriesbanner1height}     height of 1st banner
-    {seriesbanner1path}       path of 1st banner
-    {seriesbanner2width}      width of 2nd banner
-    {seriesbanner2height}     height of 2nd banner
-    {seriesbanner2path}       path of 2nd banner
-    {seriesbanner3width}      width of 3rd banner
-    {seriesbanner3height}     height of 3rd banner
-    {seriesbanner3path}       path of 3rd fanart
-    {actors[]}                array with movie actors
-    {actors[name]}            real name of actor
-    {actors[role]}            actor role
-    {actors[thumb]}           absolute path of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbwidth]}      width of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbheight]}     height of scraped actor thumb    
-    -->
     <onpause delay="60" fadetime="{fadeTime}">
         <area x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" layer="7">
             <fill color="{clrSemiTransBlack}" />
@@ -390,13 +200,6 @@
         </area>
     </onpausemodeonly>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables message:
-    {text}                     message text
-    {status}                   true if message is a status message
-    {info}                     true if message is a info message
-    {warning}                  true if message is a warn message
-    {error}                    true if message is a error message
-    -->
     <message>
         <area x="10%" y="45%" width="80%" height="10%" layer="1">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlack}" />
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displayvolume.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displayvolume.xml
index f33f653..db78bde 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displayvolume.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/displayvolume.xml
@@ -8,12 +8,6 @@
         </area>
     </background>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables volume:
-    {volume}                            current volume, range from 0 to 255
-    {volpercent}                        current volume in %
-    {maxvolume}                         maximal volume
-    {mute}                              true if volume is muted
-    -->
     <volume>
         <area x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="50%" layer="2">
             <drawtext x="10" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="100%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{tr(volume)}: {volpercent}%" />
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-setup-skinpreview.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-setup-skinpreview.xml
index 32115e3..8642626 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-setup-skinpreview.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-setup-skinpreview.xml
@@ -70,22 +70,7 @@
             <drawrectangle x="4" y="4 + {areaheight} * {offset} / 1000" width="{areawidth} - 8" height="{areaheight} * {height} / 1000 - 8" color="{clrWhite}" />
         </area>
     </scrollbar>
-    <!-- Available Variables in detailheader and tab:
-    {menuheader}                        "Preview: Skin <skinname>"
-    {skinname}                          name of skin
-    {author}                            skin author
-
-    {fonts[]}                           array with fonts used by skin
-    {fonts[name]}                       name of font
-    {fonts[installed]}                  true if font is installed on system
-
-    {plugins[]}                         array with plugins supported by skin
-    {plugins[name]}                     name of plugin
-
-    {screenshots[]}                     array with screenshots
-    {screenshots[desc]}                 description of screenshot
-    {screenshots[path]}                 screenshot path
-    -->
+    
     <detailheader>
         <area x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="20%" layer="2">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-tvguideng-detail.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-tvguideng-detail.xml
index ef8403d..e6ab374 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-tvguideng-detail.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-tvguideng-detail.xml
@@ -15,10 +15,6 @@
         </area>
     </viewelement>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables scrollbar:
-    {height}                  height of scrollbar in tenth of a percent of total height
-    {offset}                  offset in tenth of a percent of total height
-    -->
     <scrollbar>
         <area x="98%" y="20%" width="2%" height="65%" layer="3">
             <fill color="{clrWhite}" />
@@ -27,28 +23,6 @@
         </area>
     </scrollbar>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables Footer:
-    {red1}                    true if red button is button 1
-    {red2}                    true if red button is button 2
-    {red3}                    true if red button is button 3
-    {red4}                    true if red button is button 4
-    {green1}                  true if green button is button 1
-    {green2}                  true if green button is button 2
-    {green3}                  true if green button is button 3
-    {green4}                  true if green button is button 4
-    {yellow1}                 true if yellow button is button 1
-    {yellow2}                 true if yellow button is button 2
-    {yellow3}                 true if yellow button is button 3
-    {yellow4}                 true if yellow button is button 4
-    {blue1}                   true if blue button is button 1
-    {blue2}                   true if blue button is button 2
-    {blue3}                   true if blue button is button 3
-    {blue4}                   true if blue button is button 4
-    {red}                     label of red button
-    {green}                   label of green button
-    {yellow}                  label of yellow button
-    {blue}                    label of blue button
-    -->
     <viewelement name="footer">
         <area x="0" y="92%" width="25%" height="8%" layer="2">
             <drawtext condition="{red1}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{red}" />
@@ -92,50 +66,10 @@
         </area>
     </viewelement>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables time:
-    {time}                   timestring in hh:mm
-    {sec}                    current seconds
-    {min}                    current minutes
-    {hour}                   current hours
-    {hmins}                  current "hourminutes" to display an hour hand
-    -->
     <viewelement name="time">
     </viewelement>
 
 
-    <!-- Available Variables in detailheader elements:
-    {title}                   title of event
-    {shorttext}               shorttext of event
-    {start}                   event start time in hh::mm
-    {stop}                    event stop time
-    {day}                     Day of event as three letter abrivation
-    {date}                    date of current event in dd.mm.yy
-    {daynumeric}              day as number
-    {month}                   month as number
-    {year}                    year as number
-    {running}                 true if event is currently running
-    {elapsed}                 elapsed time of event, if not running 0
-    {duration}                duration of event
-    {durationhours}           duration, full hours
-    {durationminutes}         duration, rest of minutes
-    {vps}                     vps description string
-    {channelname}             Channelname of event
-    {channelnumber}           Channelnumber of event
-    {channellogoexists}       true if a channel logo exists 
-    {channelid}               ChannelID as path to display channel logo
-    {ismovie}                 true if event is scraped as a movie
-    {isseries}                true if event is scraped as a series
-    {posteravailable}         true if a poster is available
-    {posterwidth}             width of scraped poster
-    {posterheight}            height of scraped poster
-    {posterpath}              absolute path of scraped poster
-    {banneravailable}         true if a banner is available
-    {bannerwidth}             width of banner
-    {bannerheight}            height of banner
-    {bannerpath}              path of banner
-    {epgpicavailable}         true if a epg picture is available
-    {epgpicpath}              path of epg picture
-    -->
     <viewelement name="header">
         <area x="1%" y="0" width="98%" height="20%" layer="3">
             <drawimage name="logo" imagetype="channellogo" path="{channelid}" x="0" width="15%" height="80%" valign="center" />
@@ -149,140 +83,6 @@
         </area>
     </viewelement>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables in tab elements:
-    {title}                   title of event
-    {shorttext}               shorttext of event
-    {description}             description of event
-    {start}                   event start time in hh::mm
-    {stop}                    event stop time
-    {day}                     Day of event as three letter abrivation
-    {date}                    date of current event in dd.mm.yy
-    {daynumeric}              day as number
-    {month}                   month as number
-    {year}                    year as number
-    {running}                 true if event is currently running
-    {elapsed}                 elapsed time of event, if not running 0
-    {duration}                duration of event
-    {durationhours}           duration, full hours
-    {durationminutes}         duration, rest of minutes
-    {vps}                     vps description string
-    {channellogoexists}       true if a channel logo exists 
-    {channelid}               ChannelID as path to display channel logo
-    {hasreruns}               true if reruns of this event are found
-    {reruns[]}                array with reruns
-    {reruns[title]}           title of rerun
-    {reruns[shorttext]}       shorttext of rerun
-    {reruns[date]}            date of rerun in dd:mm
-    {reruns[day]}             short dayname of rerun
-    {reruns[start]}           start time of rerun in hh:mm
-    {reruns[stop]}            stop time of rerun in hh:mm
-    {reruns[channelname]}     name of channel on which rerun occurs
-    {reruns[channelnumber]}   number of channel on which rerun occurs
-    {reruns[channelid]}       id of channel on which rerun occurs to display channel logo
-    {reruns[channellogoexists]} true if channel logo exists
-    {epgpic1avaialble}        true if first epg picture is available
-    {epgpic2avaialble}        true if first epg picture is available
-    {epgpic3avaialble}        true if first epg picture is available
-    {epgpic1path}             path of first epg picture
-    {epgpic2path}             path of second epg picture
-    {epgpic3path}             path of third epg picture
-    
-    {ismovie}                 true if event is scraped as a movie
-    Available variables for movies:
-    {movietitle}              movie title from themoviedb
-    {movieoriginalTitle}      movie original title from themoviedb
-    {movietagline}            movie tagline from themoviedb
-    {movieoverview}           movie overview from themoviedb
-    {movieadult}              true if movie is rated as adult
-    {moviebudget}             movie budget from themoviedb in $
-    {movierevenue}            movie revenue from themoviedb in $
-    {moviegenres}             movie genres from themoviedb
-    {moviehomepage}           movie homepage from themoviedb
-    {moviereleasedate}        movie release date from themoviedb
-    {movieruntime}            movie runtime from themoviedb
-    {moviepopularity}         movie popularity from themoviedb
-    {movievoteaverage}        movie vote average from themoviedb
-    {posterwidth}             width of scraped poster
-    {posterheight}            height of scraped poster
-    {posterpath}              absolute path of scraped poster
-    {fanartwidth}             width of scraped fanart
-    {fanartheight}            height of scraped fanart
-    {fanartpath}              absolute path of scraped fanart
-    {movieiscollection}       true if movie is part of a collection
-    {moviecollectionName}     name of movie collection
-    {collectionposterwidth}   width of scraped collection poster
-    {collectionposterheight}  height of scraped collection poster
-    {collectionposterpath}    absolute path of scraped collection poster
-    {collectionfanartwidth}   width of scraped collection fanart
-    {collectionfanartheight}  height of scraped collection fanart
-    {collectionfanartpath}    absolute path of scraped collection fanart
-    {actors[]}                array with movie actors
-    {actors[name]}            real name of actor
-    {actors[role]}            actor role
-    {actors[thumb]}           absolute path of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbwidth]}      width of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbheight]}     height of scraped actor thumb
-
-    {isseries}                true if event is scraped as a series
-    Available variables for series:
-    {seriesname}              name of series
-    {seriesoverview}          series overview
-    {seriesfirstaired}        first aired date 
-    {seriesnetwork}           network which produces series
-    {seriesgenre}             series genre
-    {seriesrating}            series thetvdb rating
-    {seriesstatus}            status of series (running / finished)
-    {episodetitle}            title of episode
-    {episodenumber}           number of episode
-    {episodeseason}           season of episode
-    {episodefirstaired}       first aired date of episode
-    {episodegueststars}       guest stars of episode
-    {episodeoverview}         episode overview
-    {episoderating}           user rating for episode
-    {episodeimagewidth}       episode image width
-    {episodeimageheight}      episode image height
-    {episodeimagepath}        episode image path
-    {seasonposterwidth}       episode season poster width
-    {seasonposterheight}      episode season poster height
-    {seasonposterpath}        episode season poster path
-    {seriesposter1width}      width of 1st poster
-    {seriesposter1height}     height of 1st poster
-    {seriesposter1path}       path of 1st poster
-    {seriesposter2width}      width of 2nd poster
-    {seriesposter2height}     height of 2nd poster
-    {seriesposter2path}       path of 2nd poster
-    {seriesposter3width}      width of 3rd poster
-    {seriesposter3height}     height of 3rd poster
-    {seriesposter3path}       path of 3rd poster
-    {seriesfanart1width}      width of 1st fanart
-    {seriesfanart1height}     height of 1st fanart
-    {seriesfanart1path}       path of 1st fanart
-    {seriesfanart2width}      width of 2nd fanart
-    {seriesfanart2height}     height of 2nd fanart
-    {seriesfanart2path}       path of 2nd fanart
-    {seriesfanart3width}      width of 3rd fanart
-    {seriesfanart3height}     height of 3rd fanart
-    {seriesfanart3path}       path of 3rd fanart
-    {seriesbanner1width}      width of 1st banner
-    {seriesbanner1height}     height of 1st banner
-    {seriesbanner1path}       path of 1st banner
-    {seriesbanner2width}      width of 2nd banner
-    {seriesbanner2height}     height of 2nd banner
-    {seriesbanner2path}       path of 2nd banner
-    {seriesbanner3width}      width of 3rd banner
-    {seriesbanner3height}     height of 3rd banner
-    {seriesbanner3path}       path of 3rd fanart
-    {actors[]}                array with movie actors
-    {actors[name]}            real name of actor
-    {actors[role]}            actor role
-    {actors[thumb]}           absolute path of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbwidth]}      width of scraped actor thumb
-    {actors[thumbheight]}     height of scraped actor thumb
-    -->
-
-    <!-- a tab is one scrolling area, just position and draw as inside a normal area -->
-    <!-- just define as many tabs as needed -->
-
     <!-- TAB EPGINFO -->
     <tab name="EPG Info" x="2%" y="20%" width="94%" height="65%" layer="2" scrollheight="{areaheight}/4">
         <drawtextbox condition="not{isseries}++not{ismovie}" x="0" y="0" width="96%" font="{light}" fontsize="8%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{description}" />
@@ -343,14 +143,6 @@
     </tab>
 
 
-    <!-- Available Variables tablabels:
-    {currenttab}            name of currently active tab
-    {prevtab}               name of prev tab
-    {nexttab}               name of next tab
-    {tabs[]}                array with available tab labels
-    {tabs[title]}           title of tab
-    {tabs[current]}         true if tab is displayed currently
-    -->
     <tablabels>
         <area x="0" y="85%" width="98%" height="5%" layer="3">
             <loop name="tabs" x="0" y="0" orientation="horizontal">
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-tvguideng-recmenu.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-tvguideng-recmenu.xml
index d2f3174..058f1f5 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-tvguideng-recmenu.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-tvguideng-recmenu.xml
@@ -2,11 +2,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE displayplugin SYSTEM "../../../dtd/displayplugin.dtd">
 
 <displayplugin x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%">
-    <!-- Available Variables Background:
-    {menuwidth}     menuwidth in percent of screenwidth
-    {menuheight}    menuheight in percent of screenheight
-    {hasscrollbar}  true if menu needs a scrollbar
-    -->
     <viewelement name="background">
         <area condition="not{hasscrollbar}" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" layer="4">
             <drawrectangle x="{areawidth}/2 - {menuwidth}*{areawidth}/100/2" y="{areaheight}/2 - {menuheight}*{areaheight}/100/2" width="{menuwidth}*{areawidth}/100" height="{menuheight}*{areaheight}/100" color="{clrTransBlack}" />
@@ -16,13 +11,6 @@
         </area>
     </viewelement>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables Scrollbar:
-    {menuwidth}     menuwidth in percent of screenwidth
-    {posy}          y position of scrollbar start in percent of screenheight
-    {totalheight}   height of complete scrollbar in percent of screenheight
-    {height}        height in tenth of a percent of total height
-    {offset}        offset in tenth of a percent
-    -->
     <viewelement name="scrollbar">
         <area x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" layer="5">
             <drawrectangle x="{areawidth}/2 + {menuwidth}*{areawidth}/100/2" y="{posy}*{areaheight}/100" width="2%" height="{totalheight}*{areaheight}/100" color="{clrWhite}" />
@@ -34,21 +22,10 @@
     </viewelement>
 
     <grid name="recmenu" x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%">
-        <!-- Background 
-        {current}       true if item is currently selected
-        -->
         <area condition="not{info}++not{buttonyesno}++not{timerconflictheader}++not{timerconflict}++not{timelineheader}++not{timelinetimer}" layer="5">
             <fill condition="{current}" color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
             <fill condition="not{current}" color="{clrTransBlack}" />
         </area>
-        <!-- info item 
-        {info}          true
-        {lines}         number of lines to display (max. 4)
-        {line1}         text of line 1
-        {line2}         text of line 1
-        {line3}         text of line 1
-        {line4}         text of line 1
-        -->
         <area condition="{info}" layer="5">
             <drawtext condition="eq({lines}, 1)" align="center" valign="center" font="{semibold}" fontsize="60%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{line1}" />
 
@@ -64,20 +41,9 @@
             <drawtext condition="eq({lines}, 4)" align="center" y="50%" font="{semibold}" fontsize="22%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{line3}" />
             <drawtext condition="eq({lines}, 4)" align="center" y="75%" font="{semibold}" fontsize="22%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{line4}" />
         </area>
-        <!-- button
-        {button}        true
-        {buttontext}    text to display on button
-        -->
         <area condition="{button}" layer="6">
             <drawtext align="center" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{buttontext}" />
         </area>
-
-        <!-- yes / no button
-        {buttonyesno}   true
-        {yes}           true if button is set to yes
-        {textyes}       text to display on yes button
-        {textno}        text to display on no button
-        -->
         <areacontainer condition="{buttonyesno}">
             <area layer="5">
                 <drawrectangle condition="not{current}" x="2%" y="5%" width="46%" height="90%" color="{clrDarkGray}"/>
@@ -92,42 +58,21 @@
                 <drawtext name="notext" x="3*{areawidth}/4 - {width(notext)}/2" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="70%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{textno}" />
             </area>
         </areacontainer>
-        <!-- Int Selector
-        {intselector}   true
-        {text}          title of selector
-        {value}         current value of selector, integer
-        -->
         <area condition="{intselector}" layer="6">
             <drawtext x="1%" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{text}" />
             <drawtext align="right" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{value} " />
         </area>
-        <!-- Bool Selector 
-        {boolselector}  true
-        {text}          title of selector
-        {value}         current value of selector, true or false
-        -->
         <area condition="{boolselector}" layer="6">
             <drawtext x="1%" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{text}" />
             <drawimage condition="{value}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_yes" x="{areawidth} - {areaheight}*0.8" y="10%" width="{areaheight}*0.8" height="{areaheight}*0.8"/>
             <drawimage condition="not{value}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_no" x="{areawidth} - {areaheight}*0.8" y="10%" width="{areaheight}*0.8" height="{areaheight}*0.8"/>
         </area>
-        <!-- String Selector 
-        {stringselector}  true
-        {text}          title of selector
-        {value}         current value of selector, string
-        -->
         <area condition="{stringselector}" layer="6">
             <drawtext x="1%" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{text}" />
             <drawimage imagetype="icon" path="ico_arrow_right" x="{areawidth} - {areaheight}*0.8" y="10%" width="{areaheight}*0.8" height="{areaheight}*0.8"/>
             <drawtext name="value" x="{areawidth} - {width(value)} - {areaheight}" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{value}" />
             <drawimage imagetype="icon" path="ico_arrow_left" x="{areawidth} - {width(value)} - 2*{areaheight}" y="10%" width="{areaheight}*0.8" height="{areaheight}*0.8"/>
         </area>
-        <!-- Text Input 
-        {textinput}     true
-        {editmode}      true if currently in edit mode
-        {text}          title of selector
-        {value}         current value of selector, string
-        -->
         <areacontainer condition="{textinput}">
             <area layer="6">
                 <drawtext x="1%" y="10%" font="{light}" fontsize="40%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{text}" />
@@ -138,32 +83,14 @@
                 <drawtext align="right" y="55%" font="{light}" fontsize="40%" color="{clrBlack}" text="{value} " />
             </area>
         </areacontainer>
-        <!-- Time Selector 
-        {timeselector}  true
-        {text}          title of selector
-        {value}         current value of selector, hh:mm
-        -->
         <area condition="{timeselector}" layer="6">
             <drawtext x="1%" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{text}" />
             <drawtext align="right" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{value} " />
         </area>
-        <!-- Day Selector 
-        {dayselector}   true
-        {text}          title of selector
-        {value}         current value of selector, dd.mm
-        -->
         <area condition="{dayselector}" layer="6">
             <drawtext x="1%" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{text}" />
             <drawtext align="right" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{value} " />
         </area>
-        <!-- Channel Selector 
-        {channelselector}    true
-        {text}               title of selector
-        {channelnumber}      number of currently selected channel, 0 for "all channels"
-        {channelname}        name of channel or "all channels"
-        {channelid}          id of channel
-        {channellogoexisis}  true if channel logo exists
-        -->
         <area condition="{channelselector}" layer="6">
             <drawtext x="1%" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{text}" />
             <drawimage condition="{channellogoexisis}" imagetype="channellogo" path="{channelid}" x="{areawidth}-{areaheight}" valign="center" width="{areaheight}*0.9" height="{areaheight}*0.9" />
@@ -171,13 +98,6 @@
             <drawtext condition="not{channellogoexisis}++{channelnumber}" align="right" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{channelnumber} {channelname} " />
             <drawtext condition="not{channelnumber}" align="right" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{channelname} " />
         </area>
-        <!-- Weekday Selector 
-        {weekdayselector}    true
-        {text}               title of selector
-        {dayselected}        number of currently selected day (0 - 6)
-        {day0abbr} ... {day6abbr}  localized one character abbrevation for weekdays from Monday to Sunday
-        {day0set}  ... {day6set}   true if according weekday from Monday to Sunday is set
-        -->
         <areacontainer condition="{weekdayselector}">
             <area layer="6">
                 <drawtext x="1%" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{text}" />
@@ -223,27 +143,12 @@
                 <drawtext name="day6" x="{areawidth} - {areaheight}*1.0 + {areaheight}/4 - {width(day6)}/2" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="50%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{day6abbr}" />
             </area>
         </areacontainer>
-        <!-- Directory Selector 
-        {directoryselector}  true
-        {text}               title of selector
-        {folder}             current folder of selector, string
-        -->
         <area condition="{directoryselector}" layer="6">
             <drawtext x="1%" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{text}" />
             <drawimage imagetype="icon" path="ico_arrow_right" x="{areawidth} - {areaheight}*0.8" y="10%" width="{areaheight}*0.8" height="{areaheight}*0.8"/>
             <drawtext name="folder" x="{areawidth} - {width(folder)} - {areaheight}" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{folder}" />
             <drawimage imagetype="icon" path="ico_arrow_left" x="{areawidth} - {width(folder)} - 2*{areaheight}" y="10%" width="{areaheight}*0.8" height="{areaheight}*0.8"/>
         </area>
-        <!-- Timerconflict Header 
-        {timerconflictheader}    true
-        {text}                   title of Timerconflict Header
-        {conflictstart}          start of conflict in hh:mm
-        {conflictstop}           end of conflict in hh:mm
-        {overlapstart}           start of overlap in hh:mm
-        {overlapstop}            end of overlap in hh:mm
-        {overlapstartpercent}    start of overlap in percent of total conflict time width
-        {overlapwidthpercent}    width of overlap in percent of total conflict time width
-        -->
         <areacontainer condition="{timerconflictheader}">
             <area layer="5">
                 <drawtext name="title" x="{areawidth}*0.7*0.5 - {width(title)}/2" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{text}" />
@@ -257,25 +162,6 @@
                 <drawrectangle x="{areawidth}*0.7 + {overlapstartpercent}*{areawidth}*0.3/100" y="50%" width="{overlapwidthpercent}*{areawidth}*0.3/100" height="50%" color="{clrRedTrans}"/>
             </area>
         </areacontainer>
-         <!-- Timerconflict 
-        {timerconflict}          true
-        {timertitle}             title of timer
-        {channelname}            name of channel
-        {channelid}              channel ID
-        {transponder}            transponder of channel
-        {starttime}              start of timer in hh:mm
-        {stoptime}               end of timer in hh:mm
-        {date}                   date of timer in dd.mm.yy
-        {weekday}                weekday of timer, 3 letter abrivation
-        {infoactive}             true if info icon is active
-        {deleteactive}           true if delete icon is active
-        {editactive}             true if edit icon is active
-        {searchactive}           true if search icon is active
-        {timerstartpercent}      start of timer in percent of total conflict time width
-        {timerwidthpercent}      end of timer in percent of total conflict time width
-        {overlapstartpercent}    start of overlap in percent of total conflict time width
-        {overlapwidthpercent}    width of overlap in percent of total conflict time width
-        -->
         <areacontainer condition="{timerconflict}">
             <area layer="5">
                 <drawimage condition="not{current}" imagetype="skinpart" path="menubutton" x="0" y="0" width="70%" height="100%"/>
@@ -300,20 +186,6 @@
                 <drawrectangle x="{areawidth}*0.7 + {overlapstartpercent}*{areawidth}*0.3/100" y="0" width="{overlapwidthpercent}*{areawidth}*0.3/100" height="100%" color="{clrRedTrans}"/>
             </area>
         </areacontainer>
-        <!-- Event 
-        {event}              true
-        {title}              title of event
-        {shorttext}          shorttext of event
-        {starttime}          start of event in hh:mm
-        {stoptime}           end of event in hh:mm
-        {date}               date of event in dd.mm.yy
-        {weekday}            weekday of event, 3 letter abrivation
-        {channelnumber}      number of channel
-        {channelname}        name of channel
-        {channelid}          id of channel
-        {channellogoexisis}  true if channel logo exists
-        {hastimer}           true if event has a timer
-        -->
         <area condition="{event}" layer="6">
             <drawimage condition="{current}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_info_active" x="{areaheight}*0.05" valign="center" width="{areaheight}*0.5" height="{areaheight}*0.5"/>
             <drawimage condition="not{current}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_info_inactive" x="{areaheight}*0.05" valign="center" width="{areaheight}*0.5" height="{areaheight}*0.5"/>
@@ -325,31 +197,10 @@
             <drawimage condition="not{current}++not{hastimer}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_record_inactive" x="{areawidth} - {areaheight}*0.6" valign="center" width="{areaheight}*0.5" height="{areaheight}*0.5"/>
             <drawimage condition="{hastimer}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_activetimer" x="{areawidth} - {areaheight}*0.6" valign="center" width="{areaheight}*0.5" height="{areaheight}*0.5"/>
         </area>
-        <!-- Recording 
-        {recording}              true
-        {recname}                title of recording
-        {recstarttime}           start of recording in hh:mm
-        {recdate}                date of recording in dd.mm.yy
-        {recduration}            duration of recording in min
-        {channelnumber}          number of channel
-        {channelname}            name of channel
-        {channelid}              id of channel
-        {channellogoexisis}      true if channel logo exists
-        -->
         <area condition="{recording}" layer="6">
             <drawtext x="1%" y="0" font="{light}" width="98%" fontsize="50%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{recname}" />
             <drawtext x="55%" y="0" font="{light}" width="98%" fontsize="35%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{recdate} {recstarttime} - {recduration} min, {channelname}" />
         </area>
-        <!-- Searchtimer 
-        {searchtimer}            true
-        {timeractive}            true if searchtimer is active
-        {searchstring}           searchtimer search string
-        {activetimers}           number of active timers caused by this searchtimer
-        {recordingsdone}         number of recordings done by this searchtimer
-        {searchactive}           true if search icon is active
-        {editactive}             true if edit icon is active
-        {deleteactive}           true if delete icon is active
-        -->
         <area condition="{searchtimer}" layer="6">
             <drawimage condition="{current}++{searchactive}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_search_active" x="{areaheight}*0.05" valign="center" width="{areaheight}*0.5" height="{areaheight}*0.5"/>
             <drawimage condition="not{current}||not{searchactive}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_search_inactive" x="{areaheight}*0.05" valign="center" width="{areaheight}*0.5" height="{areaheight}*0.5"/>
@@ -361,22 +212,6 @@
             <drawtext condition="{timeractive}" align="right" y="5%" font="{regular}" fontsize="35%" color="{clrWhite}" text="active " />
             <drawtext x="{areaheight}*1.8" y="55%" font="{light}" fontsize="35%" color="{clrWhite}" text="Active Timers: {activetimers}, Recordings: {recordingsdone}" />
         </area>
-        <!-- Timeline Header 
-        {timelineheader}            true
-        {date}                      date of current day in weekdayname dd.mm.yyyy
-        {timerset}                  true if timer info is set
-        {channelname}               name of channel of timer
-        {channelid}                 channel ID of channel of timer
-        {channellogoexisis}         true if channel logo exists
-        {channelnumber}             number of channel of timer
-        {channeltransponder}        transponder of channel of timer
-        {timerstart}                start of timer in hh:mm
-        {timerstop}                 end of timer in hh:mm
-        {eventtitle}                title of according event
-        {eventshorttext}            short text of according event
-        {eventstart}                start time of according event
-        {eventstop}                 end time of according event
-        -->
         <areacontainer condition="{timelineheader}">
             <area layer="5">
                 <drawtext align="center" y="1%" font="{regular}" fontsize="35%" color="{clrWhite}" text="Timer for {date}" />
@@ -438,11 +273,6 @@
                  <drawtext x="{areaheight}*0.8" y="57%" width="{areawidth}-{areaheight}" font="{light}" fontsize="25%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{eventtitle} - {eventshorttext}"/>
             </area>
         </areacontainer>
-        <!-- Timeline Timer 
-        {timelinetimer}             true
-        {timerstart}                start of timer in tenth percent of complete 24h width
-        {timerwidth}                width of timer in tenth percent of complete 24h width
-        -->
         <areacontainer condition="{timelinetimer}">
             <area layer="5">
                 <drawrectangle condition="{current}" x="5%" y="0" width="90%" height="100%" color="{clrTransBlueLight}"/>
@@ -453,10 +283,6 @@
                 <drawrectangle x="{areawidth}*0.05 + {timerstart}*{areawidth}*0.9/1000" y="25%" width="{timerwidth}*{areawidth}*0.9/1000" height="50%" color="{clrBlack}"/>
             </area>
         </areacontainer>
-        <!-- Favorites 
-        {favorite}                  true
-        {favdesc}                   description of favorite
-        -->
         <area condition="{favorite}" layer="6">
             <drawimage condition="{current}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_search_active" x="{areaheight}*0.1" valign="center" width="{areaheight}*0.5" height="{areaheight}*0.5"/>
             <drawimage condition="not{current}" imagetype="icon" path="ico_search_inactive" x="{areaheight}*0.1" valign="center" width="{areaheight}*0.5" height="{areaheight}*0.5"/>
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-tvguideng-root.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-tvguideng-root.xml
index 3a909f2..442c921 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-tvguideng-root.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-tvguideng-root.xml
@@ -27,32 +27,6 @@
         </area>
     </viewelement>
 
-    <!-- Tokens available in Header
-    {isdummy}                 true if active element is a dummy element
-    {title}                   title of event of active grid
-    {shorttext}               shorttext of event of active grid
-    {description}             detailed description of event of active grid
-    {start}                   event start time in hh::mm
-    {stop}                    event stop time
-    {day}                     day of event of active grid
-    {date}                    date of  event  of active grid in dd.mm.yy
-    {daynumeric}              day as number
-    {month}                   month as number
-    {year}                    year as number
-    {running}                 true if event is currently running
-    {elapsed}                 elapsed time of event, if not running 0
-    {duration}                duration of event
-    {durationhours}           duration, full hours
-    {durationminutes}         duration, rest of minutes
-    {channelname}             Channel Name
-    {channelnumber}           Channel Number
-    {channelid}               ChannelID as path to display channel logo
-    {channellogoexists}       true if channel logo exists
-    {hasposter}               true if a scraped poster is available for this element
-    {posterwidth}             width of scraped poster
-    {posterheight}            height of scraped poster
-    {posterpath}              absolute path of scraped poster
-    -->
     <viewelement name="header_hor">
         <areascroll condition="not{isdummy}++not{hasposter}" orientation="vertical" mode="forthandback" delay="1000" scrollspeed="medium" x="1%" y="1%" width="68%" height="19%" layer="2">
             <drawtext x="0" y="0" font="{semibold}" width="100%" fontsize="25%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{day} {daynumeric}.{month} {start} - {stop}" />
@@ -95,28 +69,6 @@
         </area>
     </viewelement>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables Footer:
-    {red1}                    true if red button is button 1
-    {red2}                    true if red button is button 2
-    {red3}                    true if red button is button 3
-    {red4}                    true if red button is button 4
-    {green1}                  true if green button is button 1
-    {green2}                  true if green button is button 2
-    {green3}                  true if green button is button 3
-    {green4}                  true if green button is button 4
-    {yellow1}                 true if yellow button is button 1
-    {yellow2}                 true if yellow button is button 2
-    {yellow3}                 true if yellow button is button 3
-    {yellow4}                 true if yellow button is button 4
-    {blue1}                   true if blue button is button 1
-    {blue2}                   true if blue button is button 2
-    {blue3}                   true if blue button is button 3
-    {blue4}                   true if blue button is button 4
-    {red}                     label of red button
-    {green}                   label of green button
-    {yellow}                  label of yellow button
-    {blue}                    label of blue button
-    -->
     <viewelement name="footer_hor">
         <area x="0" y="92%" width="25%" height="8%" layer="2">
             <drawtext condition="{red1}" x="20" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{red}" />
@@ -202,21 +154,7 @@
             <drawrectangle condition="{blue4}" x="0" y="0" width="10" height="100%" color="{clrBlue}" />
         </area>    
     </viewelement>
-    <!-- Available Variables time:
-    {time}                   timestring in hh:mm
-    {sec}                    current seconds
-    {min}                    current minutes
-    {hour}                   current hours
-    {hmins}                  current "hourminutes" to display an hour hand
-    {day}                    day in digits
-    {dayleadingzero}         day in digits with leading 0
-    {dayname}                Full name of the day
-    {daynameshort}           Short 3 char name of the day
-    {month}                  month in digits with leading 0
-    {monthname}              Full name of the month
-    {monthnameshort}         3 letter abbrivation of month name
-    {year}                   year in yyyy
-    -->
+    
     <viewelement name="time_hor">
        <area x="70%" y="0" width="{areawidth}*0.145" height="12%" layer="2">
             <drawtext align="right" y="5%" font="{light}" fontsize="45%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{dayname}" />
@@ -237,10 +175,6 @@
         </area>
     </viewelement>
     
-    <!-- Tokens available in datetimeline
-    {weekday}                weekday of current display
-    {date}                   date of current display
-    -->
     <viewelement name="datetimeline_hor">
         <area x="0" y="20%" width="15%" height="5%" layer="3">
             <drawtext align="center" valign="center" font="{semibold}" fontsize="90%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{weekday} {date}" />
@@ -254,9 +188,6 @@
         </area>
     </viewelement>
 
-    <!-- Tokens available in timeindicator
-    {percenttotal}            position of current time indicator in tenth of a percent of complete time shown
-    -->
     <viewelement name="timeindicator_hor">
         <area x="15%" y="20%" width="85%" height="72%" layer="4">
             <drawrectangle x="{percenttotal}*{areawidth}/1000" y="0" width="1" height="100%" color="{clrRed}" />
@@ -269,9 +200,6 @@
         </area>
     </viewelement>
 
-    <!-- Tokens available in timeline
-    {timestring}             time of grid in hh:mm
-    -->
     <grid name="timeline_hor" x="15%" y="20%" width="85%" height="5%">
         <area layer="1">
             <drawrectangle condition="{fullhour}" x="1" y="1" width="{areawidth}-2" height="{areaheight}-2" color="{clrTransWhite}"/>
@@ -294,12 +222,6 @@
         </area>
     </grid>
 
-    <!-- Tokens available in channels
-    {name}                   name of channel
-    {number}                 number of channel
-    {channelid}              id of channel to display channel logo
-    {channellogoexists}       true if channel logo exists
-    -->
     <grid name="channels_hor" x="5%" y="25%" width="10%" height="67%">
         <area layer="2">
             <drawimage condition="{channellogoexists}" imagetype="channellogo" path="{channelid}" align="center" valign="center" width="80%" height="80%" />
@@ -314,10 +236,6 @@
         </area>
     </grid>
 
-    <!-- Tokens available in channelgroups
-    {color}                  alternates grid by grid from true to false
-    {group}                  name of channel group
-    -->
     <grid name="channelgroups_hor" x="0" y="25%" width="5%" height="67%">
         <area layer="2">
             <drawrectangle condition="{color}" x="1" y="1" width="{areawidth}-2" height="{areaheight}-2" color="{clrTransBlack}" />
@@ -338,16 +256,6 @@
         </area>
     </grid>
 
-    <!-- Tokens available in schedules
-    {color}                  alternates grid by grid from true to false
-    {dummy}                  true if grid is a dummy grid
-    {timer}                  true if a timer is set for the according event
-    {switchtimer}            true if a switchtimer is set for the according event
-    {title}                  title of grid 
-    {shorttext}              shorttext of grid 
-    {start}                  start time in hh:mm
-    {stop}                   stop time in hh:dd
-    -->
     <grid name="schedules_hor" x="15%" y="25%" width="85%" height="67%">
         <area layer="2">
             <drawrectangle condition="{color}++not{current}" x="1" y="1" width="{areawidth}-2" height="{areaheight}-2" color="{clrTransBlack}" />
@@ -381,9 +289,6 @@
         </area>
     </grid>
 
-    <!-- Tokens available in channeljump
-    {channel}                current user input for channel jump
-    -->
     <viewelement name="channeljump">
     </viewelement>
 
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecast.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecast.xml
index e4f4960..08b85ab 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecast.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecast.xml
@@ -2,22 +2,26 @@
 <!DOCTYPE menuplugin SYSTEM "../../../dtd/displaymenuplugin.dtd">
 
 <menuplugin x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" fadetime="0">
-    <background>
-        <!-- background left Menu -->
+    <background condition="eq({indexweathermenuorientation}, 1)">
         <area x="0" y="0" width="50%" height="100%" layer="1">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlack}" />
         </area>
-        <!-- background right detail view -->
         <area x="50%" y="3%" width="50%" height="94%" layer="1">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
         </area>
     </background>
-    <!-- Available Variables header:
-    {title}                         title of current menu
-    {vdrversion}                    running VDR Version
-    {hasicon}                       true if a menu icon is available
-    {icon}                          path of menu icon
-    -->
+    <background condition="eq({indexweathermenuorientation}, 0)">
+        <area x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="10%" layer="1">
+            <fill color="{clrTransBlack}" />
+        </area>
+        <area x="5%" y="10%" width="90%" height="72%" layer="1">
+            <fill color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
+        </area>
+        <area x="0" y="82%" width="100%" height="18%" layer="1">
+            <fill color="{clrTransBlack}" />
+        </area>
+    </background>
+
     <header>
         <area x="0" y="0" width="50%" height="10%" layer="2">
             <drawtext condition="not{hasicon}" x="5" width="{areawidth}-10" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="80%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{title}" />
@@ -38,82 +42,7 @@
         </area>
     </colorbuttons>
 
-    <menuitems x="0" y="10%" orientation="vertical" width="100%" height="82%" align="center" numlistelements="10">
-        <!-- Available Variables:
-        {current}
-        {menuitemtext}                      "Current Weather", "Next 48 hours" or "Next 7 days"
-        {iscurrent}                         true if item is "Current Weather"
-        {ishourly}                          true if item is "Next 48 hours"
-        {isdaily}                           true if item is "Next 7 days"
-        {city}                              configured city to display weather for
-        {latitude}                          latitude
-        {longitude}                         longitude
-        
-        If {iscurrent} is true, the following tokens are set:
-        {timestamp}                         timestamp in hh:mm dd.mm of current forecast
-        {temperature}                       current temperature in °C
-        {apparenttemperature}               apparent (felt) temperature in °C
-        {summary}                           short summary of current weather
-        {icon}                              path to use in <drawimage> to display appropriate weather icon
-        {precipitationintensity}            precipitation intensity in l/qm    
-        {precipitationprobability}          precipitation probability in %
-        {precipitationtype}                 precipitation type (snow, ...)
-        {humidity}                          humidity in %
-        {windspeed}                         wind speed in km/h
-        {windbearing}                       wind bearing in degrees
-        {windbearingstring}                 wind bearing as human readable string (e.g NE, NNE, ...)
-        {visibility}                        visibility in km
-        {cloudcover}                        cloud cover in %
-        {pressure}                          pressure in HPa
-        {ozone}                             Ozone in DU (Dobson Unit)
-
-        If {ishourly} is true, the following tokens are set:
-        {summary}                           short summary of weather
-        {icon}                              path to use in <drawimage> to display appropriate weather icon
-
-        {hourly[]}                          array with up to 48 hourly forecasts
-        {hourly[num]}                       number of forecast, starting at 1
-        {hourly[timestamp]}                 timestamp in hh:mm
-        {hourly[temperature]}               temperature in °C
-        {hourly[apparenttemperature]}       apparent (felt) temperature in °C
-        {hourly[summary]}                   short summary
-        {hourly[icon]}                      path to use in <drawimage> to display appropriate weather icon
-        {hourly[precipitationintensity]}    precipitation intensity in l/qm    
-        {hourly[precipitationprobability]}  precipitation probability in %
-        {hourly[precipitationtype]}         precipitation type (snow, ...)
-        {hourly[humidity]}                  humidity in %
-        {hourly[windspeed]}                 wind speed in km/h
-        {hourly[windbearing]}               wind bearing in degrees
-        {hourly[windbearingstring]}         wind bearing as human readable string (e.g NE, NNE, ...)
-        {hourly[visibility]}                visibility in km
-        {hourly[cloudcover]}                cloud cover in %
-        {hourly[pressure]}                  pressure in HPa
-        {hourly[ozone]}                     Ozone in DU (Dobson Unit)
-
-        If {isdaily} is true, the following tokens are set:
-        {summary}                           short summary of weather
-        {icon}                              path to use in <drawimage> to display appropriate weather icon
-
-        {daily[day]}                        day of forecast in dd.mm
-        {daily[dayname]}                    three letter abbrivated day name
-        {daily[temperaturemin]}             minimum temperature at this day in °C
-        {daily[temperaturemintime]}         time of minimum temperature
-        {daily[temperaturemax]}             maximum temperature at this day in °C
-        {daily[temperaturemaxtime]}         time of maximum temperature
-        {daily[summary]}                    short summary
-        {daily[icon]}                       path to use in <drawimage> to display appropriate weather icon
-        {daily[precipitationintensity]}     precipitation intensity in l/qm    
-        {daily[precipitationprobability]}   precipitation probability in %
-        {daily[precipitationtype]}          precipitation type (snow, ...)
-        {daily[humidity]}                   humidity in %
-        {daily[windspeed]}                  wind speed in km/h
-        {daily[windbearing]}                wind bearing in degrees
-        {daily[windbearingstring]}          wind bearing as human readable string (e.g NE, NNE, ...)
-        {daily[visibility]}                 visibility in km
-        {daily[cloudcover]}                 cloud cover in %
-        {daily[pressure]}                   pressure in HPa
-        {daily[ozone]}                      Ozone in DU (Dobson Unit)
-        -->
+    <menuitems condition="strequal({weathermenuorientation}, 'vertical')" x="0" y="10%" orientation="vertical" width="100%" height="82%" align="center" numlistelements="10">
         <listelement>
             <!-- Background -->
             <area x="1%" width="46%" layer="2">
@@ -124,8 +53,6 @@
                 <drawtext x="10" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="95%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{menuitemtext}" />
             </area>
         </listelement>
-        <!-- additional element which is drawn for current element -->
-        <!-- All Tokens from listelement are available -->
         <currentelement delay="100" fadetime="0">
             <area condition="{iscurrent}" x="51%" y="0" width="48%" height="100%" layer="3">
                 <drawimage name="weathericon" imagetype="icon" path="{icon}" x="2%" y="0" width="{areawidth}*0.3" height="{areawidth}*0.3"/>
@@ -161,4 +88,50 @@
             </area>
         </currentelement>
     </menuitems>
+    <menuitems condition="strequal({weathermenuorientation}, 'horizontal')" x="0" y="10%" orientation="horizontal" width="100%" height="90%" align="center" numlistelements="3">
+        <listelement>
+            <!-- Background -->
+            <area y="80%" height="20%" layer="2">
+                <fill condition="not{current}" color="{clrTransparent}" />
+                <fill condition="{current}" color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
+            </area>
+            <area y="80%" height="20%" layer="3">
+                <drawtextbox x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%" align="center" valign="center" font="{light}" fontsize="40%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{menuitemtext}" />
+            </area>
+        </listelement>
+        <currentelement delay="100" fadetime="0">
+            <area condition="{iscurrent}" x="10%" y="5%" width="80%" height="70%" layer="3">
+                <drawimage name="weathericon" imagetype="icon" path="{icon}" x="2%" y="0" width="{areaheight}*0.4" height="{areaheight}*0.4"/>
+                <drawtext align="right" y="0" font="{semibold}" fontsize="10%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{city}" />
+                <drawtext align="right" y="9%" font="{light}" fontsize="10%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{timestamp}" />
+                <drawtext align="right" y="18%" font="{light}" fontsize="25%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{temperature}°C" />
+                <drawtext align="right" y="40%" font="{light}" fontsize="10%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{summary}" />
+                <drawtext x="0" y="40%" font="{light}" fontsize="8%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{tr(apparenttemp)}: {apparenttemperature} °C" />
+                <drawtext x="0" y="48%" font="{light}" fontsize="8%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{tr(precipitationprobability)}: {precipitationprobability} %" />
+                <drawtext x="0" y="56%" font="{light}" fontsize="8%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{tr(precipitationintensity)}: {precipitationintensity} l/qm" />
+                <drawtext x="0" y="64%" font="{light}" fontsize="8%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{tr(humidity)}: {humidity} %" />
+                <drawtext x="0" y="72%" font="{light}" fontsize="8%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{tr(windspeed)}: {windspeed} km/h" />
+                <drawtext x="0" y="80%" font="{light}" fontsize="8%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{tr(windbearing)}: {windbearingstring}  ({windbearing} °)" />
+                <drawtext x="0" y="88%" font="{light}" fontsize="8%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{tr(cloudcover)}: {cloudcover} %" />
+            </area>
+            <area condition="{ishourly}" x="10%" y="5%" width="80%" height="70%" layer="3">
+                <loop name="hourly" x="0" y="0" orientation="vertical" columnwidth="{areawidth}" rowheight="{areaheight}/12" overflow="cut">
+                    <drawtext x="0" font="{semibold}" fontsize="7%" valign="center" color="{clrWhite}" text="{hourly[timestamp]}" />
+                    <drawimage imagetype="icon" path="{hourly[icon]}" x="18%" valign="center" width="{rowheight}*0.8" height="{rowheight}*0.8"/>
+                    <drawtext x="30%" font="{light}" fontsize="7%" valign="center" color="{clrWhite}" text="{hourly[temperature]}°C" />
+                    <drawtext x="48%" font="{light}" fontsize="5%" valign="center" width="52%" color="{clrWhite}" text="{hourly[summary]}" />
+                    <drawrectangle x="0" y="{rowheight} - 1" width="{columnwidth}" height="1" color="{clrWhite}" />
+                </loop>
+            </area>
+            <area condition="{isdaily}" x="10%" y="5%" width="80%" height="70%" layer="3">
+                <loop name="daily" x="0" y="0" orientation="vertical" columnwidth="{areawidth}" rowheight="{areaheight}/7" overflow="cut">
+                    <drawtext x="0" font="{semibold}" fontsize="{rowheight}/2" y="5" color="{clrWhite}" text="{daily[dayname]} {daily[day]}" />
+                    <drawtext x="35%" font="{light}" fontsize="{rowheight}/2" y="5" color="{clrWhite}" text="{daily[temperaturemin]}°C - {daily[temperaturemax]}°C" />
+                    <drawtext x="0" font="{light}" fontsize="{rowheight}*0.3" width="{columnwidth} - {rowheight}*0.7" y="{rowheight}*0.6" color="{clrWhite}" text="{daily[summary]}" />
+                    <drawimage imagetype="icon" path="{daily[icon]}" x="{columnwidth} - {rowheight}*0.7" valign="center" width="{rowheight}*0.7" height="{rowheight}*0.7"/>
+                    <drawrectangle x="0" y="{rowheight} - 1" width="{columnwidth}" height="1" color="{clrWhite}" />
+                </loop>
+            </area>
+        </currentelement>
+    </menuitems>
 </menuplugin>
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecastdetailcurrent.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecastdetailcurrent.xml
index 4932759..365abf7 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecastdetailcurrent.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecastdetailcurrent.xml
@@ -26,37 +26,14 @@
         </area>
     </colorbuttons>
 
-   <scrollbar>
+    <scrollbar>
         <area x="98%" y="20%" width="2%" height="65%" layer="3">
             <fill color="{clrWhite}" />
             <drawrectangle x="2" y="2" width="{areawidth} - 4" height="{areaheight} - 4" color="{clrTransparent}" />
             <drawrectangle x="4" y="4 + {areaheight} * {offset} / 1000" width="{areawidth} - 8" height="{areaheight} * {height} / 1000 - 8" color="{clrWhite}" />
         </area>
     </scrollbar>
-    <!-- Available Variables in detailheader and tab:
-    {menuheader}                        "Current Weather"
-    {city}                              configured city to display weather for
-    {latitude}                          latitude
-    {longitude}                         longitude
-    {timestamp}                         timestamp in hh:mm dd.mm of current forecast
-    {temperature}                       current temperature in °C
-    {apparenttemperature}               apparent (felt) temperature in °C
-    {temperaturemin}                    minimum temperature the day in °C
-    {temperaturemax}                    maximum temperature the day in °C
-    {summary}                           short summary of current weather
-    {icon}                              path to use in <drawimage> to display appropriate weather icon
-    {precipitationintensity}            precipitation intensity in l/qm    
-    {precipitationprobability}          precipitation probability in %
-    {precipitationtype}                 precipitation type (snow, ...)
-    {humidity}                          humidity in %
-    {windspeed}                         wind speed in km/h
-    {windbearing}                       wind bearing in degrees
-    {windbearingstring}                 wind bearing as human readable string (e.g NE, NNE, ...)
-    {visibility}                        visibility in km
-    {cloudcover}                        cloud cover in %
-    {pressure}                          pressure in HPa
-    {ozone}                             Ozone in DU (Dobson Unit)
-    -->
+    
     <detailheader>
         <area x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="20%" layer="2">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecastdetaildaily.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecastdetaildaily.xml
index 10b588c..802fa90 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecastdetaildaily.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecastdetaildaily.xml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
         </area>
     </colorbuttons>
 
-   <scrollbar>
+    <scrollbar>
         <area x="98%" y="20%" width="2%" height="65%" layer="3">
             <fill color="{clrWhite}" />
             <drawrectangle x="2" y="2" width="{areawidth} - 4" height="{areaheight} - 4" color="{clrTransparent}" />
@@ -34,34 +34,6 @@
         </area>
     </scrollbar>
 
-    <!-- Available Variables in detailheader and tab:
-    {summary}                           short summary of weather
-    {icon}                              path to use in <drawimage> to display appropriate weather icon
-    {city}                              configured city to display weather for
-    {latitude}                          latitude
-    {longitude}                         longitude
-
-    {daily[day]}                        day of forecast in dd.mm
-    {daily[dayname]}                    three letter abbrivated day name
-    {daily[temperaturemin]}             minimum temperature at this day in °C
-    {daily[temperaturemintime]}         time of minimum temperature
-    {daily[temperaturemax]}             maximum temperature at this day in °C
-    {daily[temperaturemaxtime]}         time of maximum temperature
-    {daily[summary]}                    short summary
-    {daily[icon]}                       path to use in <drawimage> to display appropriate weather icon
-    {daily[precipitationintensity]}     precipitation intensity in l/qm    
-    {daily[precipitationprobability]}   precipitation probability in %
-    {daily[precipitationtype]}          precipitation type (snow, ...)
-    {daily[humidity]}                   humidity in %
-    {daily[windspeed]}                  wind speed in km/h
-    {daily[windbearing]}                wind bearing in degrees
-    {daily[windbearingstring]}          wind bearing as human readable string (e.g NE, NNE, ...)
-    {daily[visibility]}                 visibility in km
-    {daily[cloudcover]}                 cloud cover in %
-    {daily[pressure]}                   pressure in HPa
-    {daily[ozone]}                      Ozone in DU (Dobson Unit)
-    -->
-
     <detailheader>
         <area x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="20%" layer="2">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
diff --git a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecastdetailhourly.xml b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecastdetailhourly.xml
index c21c62a..86670fa 100644
--- a/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecastdetailhourly.xml
+++ b/skins/metrixhd/xmlfiles/plug-weatherforecast-weatherforecastdetailhourly.xml
@@ -34,32 +34,6 @@
         </area>
     </scrollbar>
     
-    <!-- Available Variables in detailheader and tab:
-    {summary}                           short summary of weather
-    {icon}                              path to use in <drawimage> to display appropriate weather icon
-    {city}                              configured city to display weather for
-    {latitude}                          latitude
-    {longitude}                         longitude
-
-    {hourly[]}                          array with up to 48 hourly forecasts
-    {hourly[num]}                       number of forecast, starting at 1
-    {hourly[timestamp]}                 timestamp in hh:mm
-    {hourly[temperature]}               temperature in °C
-    {hourly[apparenttemperature]}       apparent (felt) temperature in °C
-    {hourly[summary]}                   short summary
-    {hourly[icon]}                      path to use in <drawimage> to display appropriate weather icon
-    {hourly[precipitationintensity]}    precipitation intensity in l/qm    
-    {hourly[precipitationprobability]}  precipitation probability in %
-    {hourly[precipitationtype]}         precipitation type (snow, ...)
-    {hourly[humidity]}                  humidity in %
-    {hourly[windspeed]}                 wind speed in km/h
-    {hourly[windbearing]}               wind bearing in degrees
-    {hourly[windbearingstring]}         wind bearing as human readable string (e.g NE, NNE, ...)
-    {hourly[visibility]}                visibility in km
-    {hourly[cloudcover]}                cloud cover in %
-    {hourly[pressure]}                  pressure in HPa
-    {hourly[ozone]}                     Ozone in DU (Dobson Unit)
-    -->
     <detailheader>
         <area x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="20%" layer="2">
             <fill color="{clrTransBlueLight}" />
diff --git a/views/displaymenulistview.c b/views/displaymenulistview.c
index 29927b2..b96bdc2 100644
--- a/views/displaymenulistview.c
+++ b/views/displaymenulistview.c
@@ -81,6 +81,15 @@ int cDisplayMenuListView::GetListWidth(void) {
     return 1920;
 }
 
+eMenuOrientation cDisplayMenuListView::MenuOrientation(void) {
+    if (!tmplList) {
+        return moVertical;
+    }
+    eOrientation orientation = tmplList->GetOrientation();
+    if (orientation == orHorizontal)
+        return moHorizontal;
+    return moVertical;
+}
 
 void cDisplayMenuListView::Clear(void) {
     for (int i=0; i<itemCount; i++) {
diff --git a/views/displaymenulistview.h b/views/displaymenulistview.h
index c7aba12..3acba56 100644
--- a/views/displaymenulistview.h
+++ b/views/displaymenulistview.h
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ public:
     void SetTabs(int tab1, int tab2, int tab3, int tab4, int tab5);
     int GetMaxItems(void) { return itemCount; };
     int GetListWidth(void);
+    eMenuOrientation MenuOrientation(void);
     void AddDefaultMenuItem(int index, string *tabTexts, bool current, bool selectable);
     string AddMainMenuItem(int index, const char *itemText, bool current, bool selectable);
     void AddSetupMenuItem(int index, const char *itemText, bool current, bool selectable);
diff --git a/views/displaymenurootview.c b/views/displaymenurootview.c
index bf3981f..2d4e457 100644
--- a/views/displaymenurootview.c
+++ b/views/displaymenurootview.c
@@ -226,6 +226,13 @@ void cDisplayMenuRootView::SetSortMode(eMenuSortMode sortMode) {
     view->SetSortMode(sortMode);
 }
 
+eMenuOrientation cDisplayMenuRootView::MenuOrientation(void) {
+    if (!listView) {
+        return moVertical;
+    }
+    return listView->MenuOrientation();
+}
+
 void cDisplayMenuRootView::CorrectDefaultMenu(void) {
     if (viewType > svMenuDefault && viewType != svMenuPlugin) {
         SetMenu(mcUnknown, true);
diff --git a/views/displaymenurootview.h b/views/displaymenurootview.h
index cec7708..294b6ee 100644
--- a/views/displaymenurootview.h
+++ b/views/displaymenurootview.h
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ public:
     void SetMenu(eMenuCategory menuCat, bool menuInit);
     void SetSelectedPluginMainMenu(string name) { selectedPluginMainMenu = name; };
     void SetSortMode(eMenuSortMode sortMode);
+    eMenuOrientation MenuOrientation(void);
     void SetCurrentRecording(string rec) { currentRecording = rec; };
     void CorrectDefaultMenu(void);
     void SetPluginMenu(string name, int menu, int type);
diff --git a/views/displaymenuview.c b/views/displaymenuview.c
index 9f732e2..53ab558 100644
--- a/views/displaymenuview.c
+++ b/views/displaymenuview.c
@@ -221,6 +221,8 @@ void cDisplayMenuView::DrawScrollbar(int numMax, int numDisplayed, int offset) {
 
     intTokens.insert(pair<string, int>("height", barHeight));
     intTokens.insert(pair<string, int>("offset", barOffset));
+    intTokens.insert(pair<string, int>("hasprev", (offset == 0) ? 0 : 1));
+    intTokens.insert(pair<string, int>("hasnext", (offset + numMax == numDisplayed) ? 0 : 1));
 
     ClearViewElement(veScrollbar);
     DrawViewElement(veScrollbar, &stringTokens, &intTokens);
diff --git a/views/view.c b/views/view.c
index ad1635c..c2cfea9 100644
--- a/views/view.c
+++ b/views/view.c
@@ -284,7 +284,6 @@ void cView::DestroyDetachedViewElement(eViewElement ve) {
     detachedViewElements.erase(hit);    
 }
 
-
 void cView::ClearAnimations(int cat) {
     //stop and delete all animated elements from this viewelement
     if (animations.size() == 0)
@@ -746,6 +745,7 @@ void cView::DoDrawTextBox(int num, cTemplateFunction *func, int x0, int y0) {
     string fontName = func->GetFontName();
     int fontSize = func->GetNumericParameter(ptFontSize);
     int align = func->GetNumericParameter(ptAlign);
+    int valign = func->GetNumericParameter(ptValign);
     int maxLines = func->GetNumericParameter(ptMaxLines);
     tColor clr = func->GetColorParameter(ptColor);
     tColor clrBack = clrTransparent;
@@ -759,6 +759,14 @@ void cView::DoDrawTextBox(int num, cTemplateFunction *func, int x0, int y0) {
     int fontHeight = fontManager->Height(fontName, fontSize);
     int lines = wrapper.Lines();
     int yLine = y;
+
+    if (height > 0 && valign == alCenter) {
+        int totalHeight = lines * fontHeight;
+        if (totalHeight < height) {
+            yLine += (height - totalHeight) / 2;
+        }
+    }
+
     for (int line=0; line < lines; line++) {
         int xLine = x;
         if (align == alCenter) {
@@ -771,15 +779,16 @@ void cView::DoDrawTextBox(int num, cTemplateFunction *func, int x0, int y0) {
         cPoint pos(xLine, yLine);
         if (maxLines > 0 && line == maxLines-1) {
             string lastLine = wrapper.GetLine(line);
-        if (lines > maxLines) {
+            if (lines > maxLines) {
                 lastLine += "...";
             }
-        DrawText(num, pos, lastLine.c_str(), clr, clrBack, fontName, fontSize);
+            DrawText(num, pos, lastLine.c_str(), clr, clrBack, fontName, fontSize);
             break;
-        } else if (height > 0 && yLine - y + 2*fontHeight > height) {
+        } else if (line != (lines-1) && height > 0 && yLine - y + 2*fontHeight > height) {
             DrawText(num, pos, "...", clr, clrBack, fontName, fontSize);
             break;
         }
+        esyslog("skindesigner: drawing regular line yLine %d", yLine);
         DrawText(num, pos, wrapper.GetLine(line), clr, clrBack, fontName, fontSize);
         yLine += fontHeight;
     }