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Allow a keyboard.xml distributed with skin to override all other bindings please.
Would give much more depth to controls than having to figure hacks to jump bindings.
Users cant be expected to edit xml, more so on standalone devices like fTV/android/etc.

Allowing skins to ship their own keymaps will add yet another support burden to skinners and most likely ruin the overall experience. I think this is causing major fragmentation and other issues. IMO it's totally fine for skilled users (power users) to edit their mappings.

I understand, but it could just function like the current userdata/keyboar/keyboard.xml where it *only* overrides what is in the shipped xml. So skinner wouldn't have to edit every single key, just add the ones they want to override. But, I agree some everyday users may not be aware why suddenly their menu button is behaving differently. But then a flash screen onload would enforce that the user is aware their keymap may be changed to inclusion of said keyboard.xml. Plus [sorry longwinded!] I can only see experienced skinners only adding functions not overwriting standard functions, like the longpress now available etc.
Anyways, thanks for your reply!