Separate xml's for bookmarks and settings?

[Vortex]

can we please add the ability to load bookmarks from an external xml? it seems that everytime a new build comes out, i can't use my old xboxmediacenter.xml because some new feature is implemented and i will lose out if i use my old .xml because obviously it won't be included... but i'm always cutting and pasting my old bookmarks into the new .xml because they never change...

so i think it would be wise to have a seperate bookmarks.xml or atleast the ability to reference an external bookmark xml from within the main xml so that the updating process is easier.

maybe i'm making too big a deal out of this :)
what do you think?

[sigtom]

i dont see the big deal...so you cut and paste...you already have to unrar and ftp xbmc over to your xbox....whats a few more minutes to cut and past 5-10 bookmarks? you can always use the workgroup settings...set up your xbox smb shares to be read by guests....when you choose to browse the workgroup bookmark, it will bring up all pcs on your network, choose the pc, then the share, yer in.

[lusken]

what's wrong with beeing lazy? without user lazyness there would not exist any gui for any computer.

i've been hoping for such feature to come for quite some time, and will very much appreciate it if the xbmc team decide to provide it. the xbmc team has given us an absolutely stunning piece of software, and i feel proud just to use it! and here comes a good suggestion to improve it even further.

[Punk]

how about a favourites folder, inside which a text/xml file for files, music, pictures and video.
would be a nice feature but if it didn't take long to add to xbmc.

[NikosKos]

hi all !

could it be possible to have all share/bookmark settings in a file that is different from xboxmediacenter.xml ?
for example a bookmark.xml file in the same folder.

because when updating xbmc's version, i find it annoying to copy/paste those settings in the new xboxmediacenter.xml

you rarely change that kind of info. it would be nice to have it set once and for all and just drag'n'drop your file to your new destination.

nikoskos

[C-Quel]

it'd be even better if you could browse dir and hit the context menu button remote or controller and on the menu its got "add bookmark" once clicked "add description" :-) bit like the add share business. also as you say to a seperate file. bookmark.xml in the root dir.

[IndieRockSteve]

i had an idea, i was adding some shares to my config and made a type-o causing xbmc to not load. this lead me to think, could the shares settings be a seperate file? this would allow people to update the shares easily without the possibility of screwing the current xml file up and not being able to load xbmc. this could also lead to adding control of this file to the gui.

any thoughts?

[jmarshall]

you can already do it all from the gui.

when was the last time you changed xboxmediacenter.xml? why did you need to change it?

[IndieRockSteve]

wait. how do i do it from the gui? i need to look into this, i haven't seen the option anywhere...

[jmarshall]

context menu (white on controller, title? on remote).

[ricke666]

hi,

i'll explain why i suggest this. like probably most of you, my computer drives are shared to my xbox through smb. but, at each time that a new cvs is out, i have to copy/paste all this smb info from my old xml to my new one.

also, there's a lot of things i don't need in the xml, like xns (not sure of the term) and so on. it would be a good idea to have this information on a separated file, making it possible to upgrade the main xml file and containing the smb information unchanged.

another suggestion, but for this one i'm not sure of all the consequences of it. do the smb, xns and other protocols information (ips, logins, folders, etc) absolutely need to be separated for audio, vido and pictures? they could be globally used for images, movies and music. this would make only one occurence of a share in the xml file.

eric

[Solo0815]

i´m also for seperating the "share.xml" (whatever) from the xboxmediacenter.xml
then it´s easier to upgrade xbmc, for all users, n00bs too ;)

[Gamester17]

just for the record; i am against splitting the xml into two, as i do think it would be a good idea at all :no: ...sure a bookmarks.xml would make it easier for those who upgrade a lot (but i think those should know how to do cut-and-paste anyway) however entering the network-configuration information into xboxmediacenter.xml anyhow, the fact is that the majority of xbmc users don't upgrade very often. i believe the biggest downside to separating it is that it would be less user-friendly as just having to edit and keep track of one xml file is more than enough for beginners/newbies, and we are always aiming to make xbmc more user-friendly for those with less skill/knowlage so that more people can enjoy xbmc.

[jgawera]

i have this same problem when upgrading.

here's an idea, make it so that whenever a new setting is put into xboxmediacenter.xml, xbmc will generate the default for that entry and add it to the xml file automatically.

so if you want to upgrade, you leave your old xml file there and xbmc will say, ok, this setting is missing, i'll add the default value.

i'm not sure hwo the code is structured, but if there is one class for xboxmediacenter.xml then this could have all default values stored in it, on startup it could check that all the settings are present, any missing ones get added with default values.

benefits:
would keep all settings in one place. - no extra xml files to keep track of.
would mean no more copy/paste on upgrades
and if you just wanted the default for most stuff, you may never need to edit the xml agian.

disadvantage:
how hard is this to code? not seen the code for this so don't know.
if a dev can point me in the right direction i may give this one a go my self :)