2016-09-05, 10:14
Well, if enough skinners like your addon, then they will include support for it in their skins.
If you take a look at the skin.helper.service, this sets lots of properties that skinners can use. As it supplies lots of info that you can't otherwise easily get into a skin, lots of skinners support it.
BTW, that station uses LightStreamer to push out its track and artist info. There is a python implementation of a LightStreamer client on github, so it should be perfectly possible to write an addon to do what you want.
I do agree that some standardisation of window properties would be useful, given that various different addons could set the same properties and a skin would only have to implement one set to work with all the addons. As the addons are unofficial I think it would be down to the individual addon devs to create the standard between them and then a skin dev can choose whether or not to support it.
If take up of the addons is reasonably high then skinners will want to support them. If not then it becomes a bit of a niche area and only those particularly interested in said addons will want to fiddle with their skin to add support.
Of course, there is nothing to stop you offering a modded version of a skin along with your addon.
If you take a look at the skin.helper.service, this sets lots of properties that skinners can use. As it supplies lots of info that you can't otherwise easily get into a skin, lots of skinners support it.
BTW, that station uses LightStreamer to push out its track and artist info. There is a python implementation of a LightStreamer client on github, so it should be perfectly possible to write an addon to do what you want.
I do agree that some standardisation of window properties would be useful, given that various different addons could set the same properties and a skin would only have to implement one set to work with all the addons. As the addons are unofficial I think it would be down to the individual addon devs to create the standard between them and then a skin dev can choose whether or not to support it.
If take up of the addons is reasonably high then skinners will want to support them. If not then it becomes a bit of a niche area and only those particularly interested in said addons will want to fiddle with their skin to add support.
Of course, there is nothing to stop you offering a modded version of a skin along with your addon.
