Integrated with Xonfluence you have a setting to save changes....it's in skin settings,skin reset,reload-save settings..it's a known fact that kodi doesnt always read editing of xmls before a restart especially changes in sources,wakeonlan..advanced settings and so on...we live with them and dont bother me...
Ok. I tested the “Reload – Save settings and reload Xonfluence” button which can be found on the Skin Reset option under “Skin Settings – Skin Reset”. I changed a skin setting, used that button, and I used the Home button on the Firestick Remote (a hard exit). My settings were saved. That’s wonderful. Now allow me to explain a few things:
1. The Power button exit on the Xonfluence skin still has a bug that does not allow users to properly exit the Kodi program with the Firestick remote. In my solutions, I provided a method of adding an Exit option under System that will allow them to exit Kodi properly and it appears to save the skin settings as well.
2. A developer’s perspective on user friendliness is always different from a user’s perspective. Developer’s rarely care how user friendly the software is. They will often roll their eyes when confronted with a simple change that would make things a little easier or more obvious. It takes a while to gain the respect of software developers because they are smart people and they have no patience for stupidity.
3. When users navigate to the Skin Reset option, there is one thing that jumps out at you: A big red triangle with an exclamation mark in the center. Right under it, it states “Warning…” My point is that a new user or even the average user will navigate to the Skin Reset option and a big warning sign will jump in front of them and they would be concerned that all of their changes will be reset to default if they go anywhere near that option. The save option button at the top of the screen is overshadowed (hidden from sight almost) by the big warning sign. I know…it’s obvious to YOU that a save option is on that screen somewhere because you are clearly familiar with the Xonfluence skin but it will not be obvious to the average user or a new user. This is merely a user friendliness issue that developers sometimes don’t think about. Why have a button buried somewhere when the saving function can be “hard coded” to save your changes as soon as you exit the Skin Settings screen?
4. Your statement “It is a known fact that Kodi doesn’t read xml’s…” is nothing more than gibberish (like a foreign language) to the average user. The average user has no idea what an xml is, what it does, and most importantly…they don’t care. The average user wants a user friendly application that allows them to do stuff. That’s it.
In any event, thank you so much for the Save Settings button tip...again it was not obvious and (as you could see) it took a while before someone provided that answer.
