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Updated fork of Spatterlight
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Preference to open games without adding them to the library #40

Closed dfabulich closed 2 years ago

dfabulich commented 2 years ago

During IFComp, I play a lot of games that I don't intend to use/keep forever. Since I've configured Spatterlight to be the default app for .gblorb files, Spatterlight adds a reference to these files in its library when I double-click to open them, even if I intend to play them only once and toss them later.

I wish there were a preference allowing me disable automatically adding games to my library.

angstsmurf commented 2 years ago

This is actually a behaviour that I found annoying in iTunes as well, which Spatterlight is obviously modeled on.

The library and its database are central to how Spatterlight works, and it would not be trivial to change. To add a "Open games without adding them to the library" setting I guess you would have to create a way for library entries to be hidden, so that the games would still be added but not shown in the library window. Then we would have to make sure that they are unhidden when the same game is added in the old standard way.

dfabulich commented 2 years ago

Perhaps #42 and/or #45 would be a better way to satisfy my goal for this issue.

dfabulich commented 2 years ago

I think this is done in 0.8.9!