Development update #2

Hello everyone! 

This is another development progress report for Playnite 8, this time with screenshots!

My current plan is to hopefully release Playnite 8 for patrons by the end of this month, since most problematic and complex features should be implemented already. One feature that's likely to be postponed to Playnite 9 is game grouping on Grid view. I'm having a real hard time implementing it in some performance acceptable manner and I may remove it from Playnite 8 scope if it's going to be the only thing blocking release.

As always, thank you very much for continued support.

Josef 

Metadata diff view

Playnite will now show dialog with metadata selection in case there's a potential conflict with existing metadata. This only happens when downloading metadata manually while editing the game (it would otherwise spam a ton of dialogs during mass downloads). The dialog only shows if conflict is present, so it will only display items that have some data assigned already, meaning that the dialog won't show in some cases, like where the game has no metadata present (it would not make much sense to show it in that case) or if the metadata are identical.

You can actually combine data from existing fields and new ones. For example if new data has new genre fields, but some are already present, you can pick, which existing to keep and which new ones to assign.

Tools menu

There's no a new menu (in main menu and tray menu) available to assign custom application tools. Basically for anything that you don't want to have in the library as a "game", but you still want to have an easy option to launch it from Playnite.

Extension menu improvements

There has been numerous improvements to how extensions interact with menus:

• Extensions can add game menu items.
• Extensions can add new items into main menu root (not just under "Extensions" sub menu).
• Extensions can create sub-menus.
• Extensions can assign icons to menu items.

Preview of how this is going to work for developers is available here. 

Quick Completion status changes

You can now quickly assign completion status from game menu. This feature was implemented by a community member V0idhead.

Link reordering

You can now reorder game links, it works the same way as reordering of game actions.