Skin Settings under Addon Setting?

I'm sure I read somewhere that Skin Settings would be moved to Addon Settings for Eden but I can't find the post/thread anywhere.

Was it wishful thinking on my part?

Thanks.

Hitcher Wrote:I'm sure I read somewhere that Skin Settings would be moved to Addon Settings for Eden but I can't find the post/thread anywhere.

Was it wishful thinking on my part?

Thanks.

Glad you're bringing it up (this is new info for me), but I don't see this as good idea.

Although it seams logical as skins are addons, it won't be practical at all. Secondly skins are addons from a install point of view but they considerably alter XBMC looks so that you may argue they belong to Appearace section.

Hitcher it's still planned but with many things for eden they are getting delayed because the deva are busy making XBMC run better on lower powered platforms which really is better than small cosmetics changes

pecinko nothing will stop you doing it the old away but this will be easy just maybe not as pretty for things like background choosers and uniform across all addons and skins

It will certainly be easier when we can use proper spin controls for skin settings - the fake ones I used in XeeBo were a nightmare to code.

Thanks Jezz.

As a result would this mean all the controls that are available to system settings could be used for skin settings too (like slider controls for example)?

If so, yay

I prefer to keep doing skin settings "free form" as well. So if that'll still be possible in addition to having it in add-on settings, I'm happy.

Jezz_X Wrote:pecinko nothing will stop you doing it the old away but this will be easy just maybe not as pretty for things like background choosers and uniform across all addons and skins

This is exactly where I was aiming, but it will be remedied if the old way will be still possible. Although, having it the both ways does not seam as a user friendly and I cannot imagine more complex skins where you can tweak 158684 options using addons settings without making a shortcut for it on a home page :-) and that would be..

Hitcher Wrote:It will certainly be easier when we can use proper spin controls for skin settings - the fake ones I used in XeeBo were a nightmare to code.

I would welcome spin controls, of course, but I think those could be available with old way too.

I suppose devs didn't want to code it twice (or rather alter the existing code), hence decision that those will be available when skin setting move to addons. Maybe they are willing to reconsider?

Personally I think we bite the bullet and kill off the way you currently do things and just replace with the addon settings way.

Yes, it may not look as pretty, but it's shitloads less code for you to worry about, and you can instead use that time to make the rest look prettier

Obviously I'm open to ideas on how to make specific things prettier.

Cheers,
Jonathan

well unless your going to remove the ability to to use custom windows and

Skin.SetImage(string[,value])
Skin.SetFile(string,mask,folderpath)
Skin.SetBool(setting)
Skin.Reset(setting)

which would be a bad idea since we use them in other places then its easy to do both