2017-03-26, 17:52
@huberthoeve.
I had to make a quick edit to your post to remove the name of a banned addon that would have you and your post removed from the forum. (Mods: I did this because the poster makes valid points about addons in general) Please be careful what you post.
The short answer is unfortunately still 'no'. It might help you and others if I explain my reasoning:
From a skinners perspective, addons are a total mess. There is no common coding convention - each addon creator just does whatever works for them.
So let's say I allow video addons to use the poster view... Some addons work - great! Others are now completely unusable... So I add a button somewhere that says "use the list type" instead.. Still no go. Many addons have several option lists before you get to the content itself, so there's several layers of text lists presented as posters which looks ridiculous and is totally unusable. So now you're swapping back and forth between views constantly.
Maybe I can tell the skin to only use poster view when there's a poster? I tried that. Problem is that some addon creators decide to include posters for everything and other's don't - no consistency.
The remaining option is to make exceptions for specific addons, of which there are hundreds.
So in the end, I say "list view for all addons, it's the only way to be sure".
I had to make a quick edit to your post to remove the name of a banned addon that would have you and your post removed from the forum. (Mods: I did this because the poster makes valid points about addons in general) Please be careful what you post.
The short answer is unfortunately still 'no'. It might help you and others if I explain my reasoning:
From a skinners perspective, addons are a total mess. There is no common coding convention - each addon creator just does whatever works for them.
So let's say I allow video addons to use the poster view... Some addons work - great! Others are now completely unusable... So I add a button somewhere that says "use the list type" instead.. Still no go. Many addons have several option lists before you get to the content itself, so there's several layers of text lists presented as posters which looks ridiculous and is totally unusable. So now you're swapping back and forth between views constantly.
Maybe I can tell the skin to only use poster view when there's a poster? I tried that. Problem is that some addon creators decide to include posters for everything and other's don't - no consistency.
The remaining option is to make exceptions for specific addons, of which there are hundreds.
So in the end, I say "list view for all addons, it's the only way to be sure".
