Saw this in another discussion and liked it so much that I thought I’d specifically make a Feature Request.
When upgrading in Linux, those of us who are used to the upgrade process know that stuff breaks like a crumbly cookie whenever you apply even the tiniest upgrade - and we’re usually prepared for this and find these things trivially fixed.
However, the average user is one who uses Windows or Ubuntu because “it just works” and they don’t have to think at all.
Therefore, I suggest the following:
When advising that an upgrade is available, or however one starts the internal upgrade process (I’ve only ever upgraded with a full wipe and download of OSMC to my pi2’s uSD), it would be AWESOME if there were a prompt or option to choose to read the release notes - it could just open a text display screen, download release notes and populate and show so the user could peruse any changes to get an idea of what might break at that moment.
Thought this could be useful and yet non-intrusive for those who don’t care and just want to update now and move on.
For now you can always go to Blog - OSMC for the release notes. If we know what would break, we wouldn’t be breaking it, so it is unlikely we will be able to predict this so readily in release notes
No, but you can predict what might break by looking at what changes. And yes, the Blog - OSMC gives the release notes but it would be nice if those somehow were extractable through OSMC so that when someone goes “Oh look a new update” they can hit release notes and it gives a plaintext readout of what to look out for.
Too much effort each month doing this, plus we are having issues getting a skin going as it is for now, so UX customisation in Kodi must be minimised for now.
is it possible to piggyback on the current enabled skin and just do a barebone meny that gets the rest of the color and look from the current enabled skin ?
