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<blockquote data-quote="marshall" data-source="post: 73148" data-attributes="member: 18404">Logically thinking, one would spend the same amount of time downloading, just the time would be broken up into two smaller chunks, one during the initial installer download and one during the skin download instead of all during the initial installer download. If you consider that the person might want a different skin immediately, then the download time would actually decrease by the amount of time the unnecessary skin took.However, nobody, including me, puts this amount of thought into the whole downloading/installing process while it is happening, so I guess it would probably be net negative.If at some point the whole deal went modular, not just the skins (imagine a small installer that asked for (or seeked out) information about your system and only installed the remote, capture card definitions, skins, languages, plugins, etc. that you desired) that would be pretty cool. Not really necessary as the whole package is pretty small though. Okay, now I'm just dreaming up crazy stuff when I should be in bed... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="marshall, post: 73148, member: 18404"] Logically thinking, one would spend the same amount of time downloading, just the time would be broken up into two smaller chunks, one during the initial installer download and one during the skin download instead of all during the initial installer download. If you consider that the person might want a different skin immediately, then the download time would actually decrease by the amount of time the unnecessary skin took. However, nobody, including me, puts this amount of thought into the whole downloading/installing process while it is happening, so I guess it would probably be net negative. If at some point the whole deal went modular, not just the skins (imagine a small installer that asked for (or seeked out) information about your system and only installed the remote, capture card definitions, skins, languages, plugins, etc. that you desired) that would be pretty cool. Not really necessary as the whole package is pretty small though. Okay, now I'm just dreaming up crazy stuff when I should be in bed... :rolleyes: [/QUOTE]

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