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Expanded User Settings Configuration

We would consider building out a comprehensive "User Settings" area. This will be the central hub for customizing the app experience, including default paths, UI preferences, and toggle behaviors, giving you more control over how Perflight integrates with your workflow.

Source: https://github.com/jimpdx/perflight/issues/57

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  • Jim Thompson

    Team•

    Apr 9

    Include this setting Shutdown/minimize after launch which is roughly the same as Minimize app to System Tray

  • Jim Thompson

    Team•

    Feb 24

  • Jim Thompson

    Team•

    Feb 22

    It should easy to create Custom Categories. So rather than adding Liveries separately, I guess we will just leave that to be a custom category? I will add this to the upcoming release possible. Thanks@limbix. And don’t worry, we WANT this type of feedback so ask away!

    • limbix

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      Feb 22

      Fantastic, and I think that would be the appropriate way to handle Liveries. I look forward to the next updates. Happy to beta test at any point as well (been testing software of various types for 20 years now).

  • limbix

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    Feb 20

    I feel like this is the appropriate place for this. In user settings would nice if you could add custom Categories for those who like to have more defined control over their addons.

    • Jim Thompson

      Team•

      Feb 21

      @limbix, thanks. Can you suggest what other categories you would like to see? Some might be better turned into standard categories rather than custom. Add a separate Category for "Liveries"? is already on the roadmap, although we can’t automatically tell what is an Aircraft vs a Livery so it would all be done manually (same with any custom categories we addeD).

      • limbix

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        Feb 21

        I don’t mind the manual side of things, after all every dev does it differently, which makes it hard for any dev trying to provide a too like this, or any other number of utilities sims. I should note that a tool like this is great, and I don’t want to come off as demanding or ungrateful. You’re making a tool that I couldn’t and providing options for the community. I hope that you take these as observations to help useability, and opening to as wider audience as possible. And of course, feel free to let me know if I am being a git, this is your tool that you have developed free of charge (even though you mentioned a pro version, I would pay for it). I really like it so far. My ideas below are aimed at those who like to tailor their experience.

        TL;DR - Along with a Liveries category I would really love to see vehicle specific categories, and a Library category.

        The four default categories are a great start, especially for those with smaller libraries of addons. For those like myself, having the freedom to organise things in a way that works for me is important, I won’t be the only one - as everyone is different. One of main observations is, larger libraries of addons are going to be a challenge to organise with just four categories. Another thing affecting this, which is out the control of this software, are addons with no associated image. While you have provided a way to fix this, more categories even if manually organised, is another tool to help with that confusion.

        I like how MSFS2024 organises the aircraft and vehicles (presentation is a different story); Airplane, Helicopters, Gliders etc. Another option here is maybe subcategories or tags, obviously I don’t know if your software is coded in a way to allow this. The image of my file structure for my addons kind of highlights what I am trying describe (I’m a visual thinker). Not to say I have the best solution for categories either, just this is what works for me. (also worth ignoring the dev specific folders, this is just because of the way they install)

        The other group of categories that would be great are Libraries. As I am sure you know, most payware, and a lot of freeware, use common libraries of assets that don’t need to be amongst sceneries, after all you have created Sets to show links between addons. This group of addons seems to mostly be classed as scenery, but tend to clutter it rather a lot, often ambiguously named, and have no associated picture. All of which compounds the issue.

  • Jim Thompson

    Team•

    Feb 18

    1- Either add a single checkbox or make it more granular:

    • Alert/Notification Sounds: On (default) or Off
      --- Enable Chimes (Airbus Confirm)
      --- Enable Warning (Cabin Call)
      --- Enable Errors (Autopilot Disconnect)

    • Folder and Library File Size Counts: On (default) or Off

    • Hide the full install path

    2- Helpful data output such as Community and Simulator folder paths (already exists)

    3- Utilities such as "Clear Libraries" and "Clear All Data"

    *** We currently have a Reconcile Addons blue button that I don't think really does anything, but needs to be revisited ***

    Possibly Pro feature - output a TXT or PDF of your currently enabled Addon state