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I really like the idea of adding a warning. I think it is a good idea. The cydia application for jailbroken iDevices does a similar thing. It lets someone know what they may be getting into and if providing support you can ask one question "Did you see a warning about unintended behavior?" and maybe being able to ask them to "restore" to a fresh install with a backed up and renamed advancedsettings and guisettings file to see if it solves/fixes the problem. No idea if that is worth it but to me seems like it may be an easy way to determine that the issue was in fact caused by something not officially supported by Kodi.
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un1versal
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Yes exactly, that seems more sensible way to handle that as you pointed out.
I think that in addition / extension of this idea a factory reset option that actually renamed the userdata and restarted kodi would also be of great help towards getting a fully working system for more reasons other than this. But ceratinly isn't absolutely necessary.
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(2015-06-22, 13:09)jjd-uk Wrote: I agree with the above.
Have an Allow Unknown Sources toggle like Android defaulted to OFF to allow only installation of add-ons from the official repo, then when a user sets this to ON to allow installation of 3rd party repo's a pop up a message along the line of:
Quote:WARNING - Only add-ons in the Official Repository are supported by Team Kodi.
Installation of addons/repositories from other sources may introduce unexpected or unwanted behaviours that may cause issues with Kodi, they may also violate the copyright laws of the country you reside in. If you experience any erratic issues its advised to disable such add-ons/repositories and see if issues disappear.
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We could also do a check whenever the user enters the Add-on manager and pop up a similar message (for those boxes where the repo's are pre-installed).
I think it would be more logical to just have that one-time warning come up when a user first selects "install by zip". I don't like the idea of adding another setting that someone has to hunt down and flip before being able to use an option that is already in our UI.
As for pre-configured boxes, I don't think this will help significantly. They'll make modified versions that remove the warning. Several venders already do this for various other little things. They know how to do it, and it will just turn into a silly cat and mouse game.
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un1versal
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2015-06-23, 12:20
(This post was last modified: 2015-06-23, 12:26 by un1versal.)
idk why pirate addons keep being mentioned in same breath as this request, the fact is piracy aside many valid reasons for installing a 3rd party repo/addon via zip which should also get same warning.
On the other hand, again the few addons that really screw up Kodi many aren't even anything related to piracy. (I haven't tried any of them so wouldn't even know where to start all I know its one or a combination cause issues)
That subject imo is best left out of here not to elicit sidetracked discussion(s) of why kodi was removed from xyz and its not illegal in country xyz which keep "pooping" up a valid discussion
That said I agree fully on the unknown sources proposal and removal of zip install until hoops are jumped. Like a slap in the face, hello there wake up! before you zombie yourself into a crappified kodi and blame everyone but yourself in process..
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Right, it's all about 3rd party.
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un1versal
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2015-06-23, 16:55
(This post was last modified: 2015-06-23, 17:08 by un1versal.)
Trogggy understands somewhat this point, unlike wxstasy and the prevention comments, however much distance this throws into the mix it also performs a clear job of informing users of the fact we (the community) dont want or care about supporting anyone's jacked up configurations or bad addon coding or non existent 3rd party addons support.
As long as its done tastefully this is a good thing in all counts.