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Hitcher
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Warning - Disabling a skin deletes it entirely from you Addons folder (I found out the hard way but luckily had it backed up elsewhere) and think it would be a good idea to have a confirm delete message.
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Hitcher
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I did end up losing my new DialogSelect.xml but thankfully that was it as the rest were still in Notepad++.
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Waffa
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Luckly I tried that disable button with a skincopy of confluence in userdata/addon. :p
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Waffa
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There are users that like to mod things, and the beauty of the userdata was that they didn't get lost.
In this scenario they would lose they mods.
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`Black
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A confirmation dialog with an advice to the user that the addon will be deleted would be the best imo... simply to avoid unintended deletion of the files.
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How about we moved "disabled" plugins to a separate subfolder instead of killing them off? We can then have a "Disabled plugins" section.
Note that re-enabling the addon from the repository (if it is in a repository) will grab the repo version, not the one from "disabled plugins".
Will discuss with others.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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Being able to disable without removing seems reasonable though, thus my proposed solution.
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Jezz_X
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Then I guess the best way to go about that is a fake repo for disabled addons that monitors a folder on your hdd kind of like the main local one
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mcborzu
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I agree with the discussion about an abrupt deletion without atleast a "yes/no" option is too much...
I keep a copy of every skin and as an end user there are some skins I like but dont love and probably perfer to keep 5 "active" and 10 "disabled" so I dont have to cylce thru a whole 15 when I really just want to use 5...I think thats a way many users might use.
Check out Night - A Skin For XBMC
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Apologies for derailing the current topic, but while you're discussing various last minute changes, would you consider adding another optional image per skin that could be an integrated, skin-specific splash/logo? I know this image is ultimately overridable by the end user, but it would be interesting if switching skins could handle switching the splash automatically, no?