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I was wondering what happened, can we have it back please?!?
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It's available as an advancedsetting as sho points out.
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yes, but advanced setting does now allow to change while running.
ideally, this should be part of the ui just like the other flatten (genre etc).
even better if it was contextual:
flatten on main video, tv, or movie page = flatten genres
flatten on tv > show page = flatten seasons
anyway, you can take this not as criticism, but as feedback:
changing the options this late in the cycle was/is annoying. Settings changes should have been made way back at the beginning of the cycle or held until after this stable release for the beginning of the next.
while I'm venting, if you want to remove more settings you might as well remove the WINS and workgroup settings and/or the whole network tab. These are components for the OS, not XBMC.
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They're only components of the OS if you have access to the OS. This is not true for many setups such as AppleTV or Live. I agree on other setups, which is why those settings aren't present on win32.
Why do you want/need flatten seasons anyway? Perhaps we're misunderstanding a major use?
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Off topic: The default user/pass was removed as it was replaced with a better system. Clearly a different thing entirely. I agree that the removal could have potentially caused problems, but it was such a clearly better system that it was considered worth the small amount of hassle. For future reference, all you needed to do was navigate into your default user/pass folders and it would have prompted you and saved it. It only caused a problem if you did something like a library clean without doing this first. Lastly, settings are reviewed prior to the release cycle beginning as this is the most logical place to do it - many settings may have been added or may no longer be applicable due to development since the last stable. Thus, we clean them all up prior to the first release. Unfortunately this time around it was a little late, so a few of the cleanups occurred during the alpha period. They were all in by beta 1.
Back to the topic at hand, I can see the argument when all you have is one season that's unwatched - we've even had a few discussions as to how to implement it when it was brought up internally.
I suspect, however, that your use of flattening of seasons is atypical. Thus, I don't see the need for cluttering the UI with yet more options - we need to reduce the complexity of XBMC, not increase it. Obviously this is going to upset some people, but so be it - if XBMC is more useful to more people as a result, then IMO that's a win.
The "flatten genres" thing will be removed at some point as well as it's something that is very much set-once and forget (i.e. turn it on) and the few cases where you want genres or whatever can be done in better ways.
Cheers,
Jonathan