UI Switcher

[ger]

Originally Posted by Kosmos

You know Ger, I was half joking when I made the comment about Dolby having the site do this when the people click the download button.


But I got to thinking about this.

Take WinAmp for example.

You can download skins for WinAmp this way. You have the option to download the file, or I think it can alter the skin on the fly right through the website. With the implementation of map updater and how well it's working, I really don't think its too far feteched of an idea.

In theory it'd be possible. What WinAmp does is use custom-named ZIP files that are associated with it in Windows. When it sees a file it unzips it to the apropriate folder and triggers its skin change function.

In this case we'd have to custom name our ZIPs (EQI maybe?) and associate them with the UIInstaller. Since the UIInstaller can already take command-line variables (that's how drag-and-drop works) it could be set to accept files directly from the IE/Mozilla Open feature.