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Food for thought: another approach to using multiple profiles #111

Open sanderdatema opened 1 month ago

sanderdatema commented 1 month ago

Let's say you have a profile for the current aircraft, but you also want to use a profile for the Better Pushback plugin and some X-Camera stuff.

Currently you'd import the two plugin profiles into your aircraft profile. But what if the creator of the aircraft profile releases an update? Well, you could overwrite the new keys, but if it's quite an overhaul, that won't work. You'd rather start with a new profile. But no, you'd loose your plugin stuff.

So, another approach: X-KeyPad will allow you to activate one or more profiles. They will stay separate. This requires mandatory naming conventions to avoid profiles having colliding key names. (#94 could help with that)

As each profile stays separate from the rest, updates will be easier.