Add-on manager
The Add-on manager is a new feature in the XBMC 10.0 "Dharma" release, its purpose is to manage the various add-ons to the XBMC application.
The term Add-on encompasses just about anything that is not part of the core XBMC application and includes (not limited to):
- Media scrapers (Media information metadata collectors)
- Scripts
- Plug-ins
- Skins
- Visualizations
In the future the plan is to break even more of the XBMC core components out to Add-ons, with the current binary add-on effort (slated for XBMC 11.0) being a key component.
The Add-ons manager can be browsed like any other XBMC section and the various Add-ons installed/uninstalled, enable/disabled etc. The default function is to have the Add-ons manager Auto update all installed Add-ons when new versions are avaiable from a centralized repository. In the official skin Confluence, it is done by executing a "Left" action to bring up a slide in submenu and deselecting "Auto update". There you can also disable to be notified if new versions are available and when they are updated.
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