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Greetings,
Kodi 16 rc2 - behavior as described
Kodi 17 20160129 - behavior as described
I've done some more testing ...
- starting kodi and loading profile looks good
- switching profiles always uses the profile settings we switched from and not the settings we switched to
Have a nice day!
Garfield
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re-testet with Kodi 16.0 RC 2 on Android... everything works fine here! :-)
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2016-04-04, 11:06
(This post was last modified: 2016-04-06, 00:48 by rainman74.)
Profiles still aren't 100% independent again in 16.1 RC1 and 16.1 RC2 ! What's wrong?
It seams that there is still a problem, perhaps in chaching (?) "addon_data" directories where settings.xml files for skins are placed?
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2016-04-06, 00:43
(This post was last modified: 2016-04-06, 00:48 by rainman74.)
... any ideas for that long drawn profile problem?
The new feature "Split up skin settings" was officialy indroduced with Kodi 16.0 Alpha 1 on Sep 03, 2015. That means this bug is now 7 month old :-(
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so what? We don't have anyone fixing bugs based on bug age if you think that?
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Why not? That would just be common sense. Older bugs should be fixed before new ones.....but only if you want the software to get better and not just to add one more version to the name........so I'm guessing that version 18 or 19 will happen so that the development team can say "look at all the work we do"....all the while core features like this will stay broken.....it's dumb but it's the new approach that is being taken.....broken things don't need to be fixed if a new version is in the works...just move on and forget.
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@Scott00007: You're completely right.
As a KODI fan I don't need KODI 17+, I only wish a much more stable and feature complete 16.x version.
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To explain, the real issue here isn't so much that a bug has come up, but that the current profile system has already been identified as broken. This kind of settings spill-over happens a lot, and for many years. The "fix" is to completely replace the profiles system. This is no small feat, and since the profiles feature is not used as much as others, it gets put on the back burner. That's actually a fairly reasonable approach, IMO, and I am someone who does use profiles.
That being said, it's normal to wonder "why". It's not a demand, it's just a curiosity. Cheers.
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2016-04-07, 22:31
Thanks for the info, too!
For parents with children at least two profiles are strongly necessary... and with that bug, parents occasionaly get the profile-skin-settings from the children (kids background, disabled menu buttons, etc.)...
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Even without profiles, I don't think skin settings get updated to file until the skin is unloaded. So there doesn't seem to be any way to backup skin settings from within a skin. I don't know if this also impacts what happens on a profile switch, but suspect it is related.
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i think it could be a problem with the caching of addon-settings (e.g. \addon_data\skin.confluence\settings.xml). Occasionally a still cached settings.xml from the last active profile gets loaded instead of the settings.xml file on filesystem of the new logged on user. Then that "other" settings.xml overwrites the physical settings.xml from the logged on user and voila...
