[pkscout]

besides not needing the refresh property anymore, would this also fix the issue some users are having with the slideshow not refreshing after all images are downloaded?

That was what I was trying to fix to start with, and it does seem to address that (I never could get my setup to refresh the old way).

if not strictly needed (as per my comment above), i'd say just hard-code it to 1 second. we don't want users have to dig through skin xml files to figure out what fadetime their skin uses. imo, the addon sets the standard and skins should adopt to it.

It is needed. If you don't pause, the skin doesn't seem to notice the directory change. I agree that we don't want the users to hunt through the skin. Since your original example used two seconds, I think I'll hard code it to 2 seconds. If the pause is shorter than the fade time, the transition looks like crap.

i'm perfectly fine if you want to maintain the addon from this point on.
if so, just submit a pull request on the addon mailing list as soon as you think things are stable enough for inclusion in the addon repo.

I certainly appreciate the vote of confidence and will be happy to do that.

oh btw , i've updated the skin integration info on the first post, you may want to make the same changes in the readme file.

Will do.