Playnite 10 development update #2

Hello everyone!

New update about Playnite 10 development is here, I'm getting close to finishing it.

I had to remove couple features from P10 milestone because it turned out they would require breaking changes to the SDK, which would mean breaking all existing extensions and themes. This was mainly an ability for themes to provide settings and an ability for plugins to create custom game fields.

Another feature that will probably get cut is support for animated covers. I've having some issues with it in terms of performance and it looks like I may need to postpone it after Playnite is updated to new .NET runtime.

As always thank you very much for continued support. Bellow is highlight of some features I've done since the last update.

Josef

Warning! Some fairly large gif files follow...

Global search window

This is new search window that will by default open on CTRL-F (you can switch to the old behavior if you like), plus there's an option to assign system wide hotkey that will open it while Playnite is not focused.

Smooth scrolling

This can be enabled/disabled/configured per view and currently only affects game lists, not other scrollable views.

Option to assign game fields in Fullscreen mode

Doesn't currently include all game fields, but most used ones like completion status is there.

Filter preset shortcut

Left stick controller button or R key will now bring up filter preset selection. This should hopefully make it faster and easier to switch presets if you have lot of them.

Updating settings

This covers program, addon and library updates.

Better handling of library updates without internet connection

Playnite will now skip library updates if there's no active internet connection detected. This will prevent a lot of sync errors from library plugins if you are in offline environment.

Installation status override

This can be enabled on game's installation tab for games imported by library plugins. In case a plugin is importing wrong installed state, and the issue can't be fixed in the plugin, you can override it manually.

Emulation improvements

• Scan of sub-folders can be now disabled in scanner configuration.

• Scan of archives can be completely disabled in scanner configuration.

• Scanner now handles m3u playlists better (importing them with higher priority to other files, not adding duplicates etc.)