2016-01-14, 13:34
SUGGESTIONS / FEATURE REQUEST (Important):
1) Centralized database with CLEAN function. Kodi after a while has THOUSANDS of files and will become fat, VERY fat. Most devices where Kodi will be installed (Android TV Box, older PCs as Media Center, etc) have limited local storage, and usually a slow one like older HDDs or relative slow eMMCs.
1.1) Add-ons old "packages" clean function
1.2) Thumbnails + Actor/Film info on one file (up to FAT32 size limit, that it would had a second one, perhaps A-M + N-Z another one), with clean function that will delete everything that doesn´t exist anymore.
1.3) Add-ons/Skin standards: use of image and video size limit (some add-ons have some small video sequences when opening them) and max file number per Add-On to something normal! I have some add-ons with hundreds of unoptimized image files. Some of them I made the optimization myself. Result almost 80% size reduction. There are people who makes Add-ons with one picture-per-icon...
1.4) "Global Clean" option that would consist cleaning everything that could be cleaned as optimizing the database, old files, old add-on packages leaving just the last one.
2) On settings > Add-On > choose how many old packages´ versions should be left as backup (1, 2, 3...)
3) On settings > Backup & Restore > Backup All (exactly as Kodi is to be able to mirror later after an update from firmware, or mirror on another PC) / Backup Settings / Backup Filme&Actor Database / Backup Skins)
4) Add-On shortcuts on the main screen (as Music, Video, etc, also the possibility to add Add-Ons directly)
