Hello everyone,
i would like to know what is your take on Addons coming with undocumented functions that have little to nothing to do with the purpose you installed the addon for.
I am not talking about harmful stuff of course. I am focusing on things that might be considered as funny and RPish.
I just recently found about LibCustomTitles. This library is included in many popular addons (see below).
What is does is it constantly checks the players you see on your screen and when a match is found it changes the displayed title to a custom one. That happened to me and i was confused. I asked the player where to get the title but got no response. In zone chat someone replied that this is done by an addon.
I check Minion frequently, i read the addon Info pages and their change logs. I wasn't aware of something running on my client that checks and changes titles. I found no explanation about it and no settings to turn it off. I found a bunch of addons in my addon folder that do this.
Personally i don't like this. I want to know what is going on and then make a concious choice. That is my take on any software.
So i posted this on ESOUI.com that users should be informed about stuff like this and get an option to turn it off. I got a lot of responses from addon authors that have included such a function and even the author of LibCustomTitles replied. He basically said he won't change anything about it and hinting that there is much more going on.
Other addon authors raised concerns and said hidden/un-documented functions is are big NO for them.
Even a workaround was provided that you might want to check out:
Disable Custom Titles and
Disable Addon Reminders
Please let me know what you think about the topic. Do you know of more hidden/un-documented functions.
Thanks for taking your time!
List of the most popular addons that have un-documented functions like CustomTitles included:
SkyShard , LoreBooks, Destinations, Harvest Map (new), InventoryGridView, AdvancedFilters, LootDrop, AwesomeGuildStore, AI Research Grid, Dustman, Dolgubon's Lazy Writ Crafter, LUI Extended, pChat, ItemSaver, RaidNotifier
i would like to know what is your take on Addons coming with undocumented functions that have little to nothing to do with the purpose you installed the addon for.
I am not talking about harmful stuff of course. I am focusing on things that might be considered as funny and RPish.
I just recently found about LibCustomTitles. This library is included in many popular addons (see below).
What is does is it constantly checks the players you see on your screen and when a match is found it changes the displayed title to a custom one. That happened to me and i was confused. I asked the player where to get the title but got no response. In zone chat someone replied that this is done by an addon.
I check Minion frequently, i read the addon Info pages and their change logs. I wasn't aware of something running on my client that checks and changes titles. I found no explanation about it and no settings to turn it off. I found a bunch of addons in my addon folder that do this.
Personally i don't like this. I want to know what is going on and then make a concious choice. That is my take on any software.
So i posted this on ESOUI.com that users should be informed about stuff like this and get an option to turn it off. I got a lot of responses from addon authors that have included such a function and even the author of LibCustomTitles replied. He basically said he won't change anything about it and hinting that there is much more going on.
Other addon authors raised concerns and said hidden/un-documented functions is are big NO for them.
Even a workaround was provided that you might want to check out:
Disable Custom Titles and
Disable Addon Reminders
Please let me know what you think about the topic. Do you know of more hidden/un-documented functions.
Thanks for taking your time!
List of the most popular addons that have un-documented functions like CustomTitles included:
SkyShard , LoreBooks, Destinations, Harvest Map (new), InventoryGridView, AdvancedFilters, LootDrop, AwesomeGuildStore, AI Research Grid, Dustman, Dolgubon's Lazy Writ Crafter, LUI Extended, pChat, ItemSaver, RaidNotifier