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I agree. I will do it that way.

syl: are you confirming that the provides tags in the RSS feed are identical in every sense to the filelist.wau files?

That would make me a happy person.

Easy enough to do a test for. I'll use the provides information instead of the wau files.

Nevcairiel: There definately are.

Currently, I'm working hard on changing the UI. I'm already quite pleased with the numerous changes I've implemented so far. NetherPanel now opens up at the addon manager by default and starts by showing you your currently installed addons while it contacts Ace to fetch information about new addons and updates. All this without even having clicked anything in NetherPanel. This should definately make it easier and faster to get started with NetherPanel.

I've also strongly reworked addon categories, how they're displayed, and how they're managed. Basically, this'll make it far easier to add new addon providers such as Curse or WoWInterface later. That'll be my next point of focus, as soon as I finish and deploy the current development code.

Indeed. That is exactly why I am currently working on making things more intuitive :) Things should get better soon now.

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Indeed. That is exactly why I am currently working on making things more intuitive :) Things should get better soon now.

3 Suggestions for that:

• "Hide empty categories." option for all addon views.
• "Show Installed Addons" tab for quick and easy access to -your- addons.
• "Hide libraries" option, for those using disembedded mode. since there's no need to see them if they're properly managed.

Special in what sense?

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• "Hide empty categories." option for all addon views.

Already done ;)

The other two are good ideas. I will think of a good way to integrate them.

NetherPanel has been updated to 2.1. A lot has happened in the backend of the code but the most relevant changes to users are:

• UI component placements changed and descriptive texts updated in numerous places. Hopefully this is a good step along the way to make NetherPanel easier to use. The addon manager starts up by default and shows your local addons while fetching data from Ace. Let me know if you want me to change anything else!
• Categories have been overhauled completely and are now color-coded foldable panels that hide when they have no addons in them and are closed by default but fold open when any addon in them needs updating.


• Tooltips have been overhauled (stickable tooltips like those with diffs or changelogs can be made sticky and scrollable by pressing F2), changelogs have been made color-coded so it's easier to find the information you want in them. This will later be further improved probably to highlight key-words in them etc. Changelogs now show up in the preview pane.


• Note: Addons are now filtered by default. This means you'll only see the addons you already have installed. Click the filter button (brush) to show all new addons that you can install.

Full details of this commit can be found on the NetherPanel Trac.

NetherPanel is now only a 5M download and for those that have Java6u10, they benefit from the new Pack200 mechanism making it an only 2.5M download.

This version changes quite a bit about the UI. Any feedback, good, bad or hating is all quite welcome.

The new version looks great and works without a hitch in Linux

this looks cool and all...but does it really update to the latest version on the trunk? I tried using it and then straight after I used regular WAU and it found like 18 new versions of addons.

So does it use another server or is it the same trunk as WAU?

Nallebjoern: You have to remember that the way these updaters track the CURRENT version of your addons is by using a metadata file that contains information on your addons. Each updater has its own metadata file. NetherPanel uses .version.xml to remember what the current version (and some other settings) for your addons are. When you update them with NetherPanel that file is updated. WAU uses something else. So NetherPanel updating your addons won't be reflected in WAU.

As an aside; when there is no .version.xml file, NetherPanel will try to guess your addon version by looking through your addon's files.

Thanks for the hint! I might actually do it that way. I'm not quite sure why I did it vertically when unfolded -- and though it doesn't disturb me, if it's hard to notice I should probably do it horizontally.

Also, it's not a bad idea to make the AceAddonProvider check for the WAU metadata file to figure out the current version of an addon. Naturally, that would only provide support in one direction; WAU -> NetherPanel. Updating with NetherPanel and then returning to WAU will still exhibit the issue as described above. Either WAU needs to be changed, you need to stick with NP, or deal with it ;)