[don_camillo]

I really want to understand why it is still not possible to make 'Sub-Bookmarks' as follows:

<bookmark>
<name>Internet Radio</name>

<bookmark>
<name>SHOUTcast - Directory</name>
<path>....newxml.phtml?genre=Top500....</path>
<bookmark>

<name>Last.FM</name>
<path>lastfm://</path>
</bookmark>

<bookmark>
<name>Twonkyvision Shoutcast</name>
<path>upnp://7076436f-6e65-1063-8074-000ea69f60b0/1/</path>
</bookmark>

</bookmark>

This is just a simple example. It would be sooo great for organising. Can it be expected that this feature will be implemented sooner or later? If not: Why the hell? Is it not possible to implement this at all? I know that a lot of XBMC users would more than appreciate this.

[jmarshall]

Because the developers either don't care about it or haven't thought about it long enough to be bothered with it. It's not a trivial thing to implement for a start. IMO a "shortcut" approach would be far more flexible, allowing links to other folders to be dumped wherever you like.

You have to realize that we have very few active developers and we don't have time to do many things that we don't personally have an interest in (hell, it often takes a while even to do things we ARE personally interested in, due to a lack of time).

Also, you probably don't mean it this way, but your post sounds more than a little demanding. One hopes you are grateful of the thousands of hours that a relatively small group of people have put in to the application you enjoy.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[Gamester17]

This is just a simple example. It would be sooo great for organising. Can it be expected that this feature will be implemented sooner or later? If not: Why the hell? Is it not possible to implement this at all? I know that a lot of XBMC users would more than appreciate this.

read this Q&A => http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/inde...by_XBMC.3F

Q: When will this and that feature or function be supported by XBMC?

A: Tomorrow, in a year, never... who knows! XBMC is a non-profit hobby project that is only developed by volunteers in their spare-time for free, none of us get paid to develop new features/functions/formats/codecs for XBMC meaning we foremost prioritize the things we ourselves what to see and use in XBMC. You as an end-user of who do not yourself contribute source code patches to the XBMC project have no rights to demand new things to be implemented and get no garantees that some specific thing will be prioritized before something else, you may however suggest/request for things and if you ask nicely then maybe someday a developer might like your idea and implement the thing you asked for. We do appriciate your ideas, opinions and feedback if they are presented in a good way, so it is possible to lobby for something specific, just don't be a jerk about it, arrogant and 'pushy' people will most likely just be ignored (or even banned if they step over the line which we consider to be acceptable). Known that almost all users think their own ideas is the most important, and a very common comment is: "if you only add these features then XBMC will be perfect for me". If you can not accept the possibility that your thing might never make it into XBMC then you just have to bite the bullit and learn how to program C/C++ to be able to code it yourself, (see the "Appendix D: Development Notes" section of this manual).