[Feature-Request] Asset overrides

[James-E-A]

There is currently no way to override assets on a per-user basis.

To change, for example, the XMB wallpaper, the user either has to

• Change his Assets directory to something owned by himself (downside: he then no longer gets automatic asset updates from the system package manger)
• Override the system's XMB wallpaper (downside: not user-specific; might confuse the system package manager)

Asset overrides (think Minecraft's Resource Packs) - where both the system and the override files are used, user/override files taking precedence where both define a file, would be a clean solution to this.

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[kivutar]

Now the wallpaper can be set using the menu setting "menu background".

But I agree that having overrides for other things could be nice.

Of course the best place for this kind of features is in the filesystem itself, like plan9 does with its "union directories", but none of the so called modern systems implement that nowadays. So I guess we have to implement it again and again in every application...

[andres-asm]

This is more like a packaging issue... I think we should stop bundling the data with the packages and use the online updater for all the user data