How is the Compatibility dialog supposed to work?

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nroth

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I loaded a Win11 image to modify, and noticed a few entries under components that are blocked by "compatibility: spotify" or "compatibility: netflix".

Sure enough, when I click the Compatibility button, in the dialog, I can see that these elements have checkmarks next to them. So I went and unchecked them. Clicked OK. There's the briefest of flickers in the components list, as if to imply that the software refreshed it.

So now, as a user, my expectation would be that the components in question are no longer blocked.

But they are. They still list "compatibility: spotify" or "compatibility: netflix" as the reason. In fact, none of the changes I make in the Compatibility dialog have any effect whatsoever - I can remove every single checkmark, and the components list looks just the same as before, with plenty of protected entries. The Compatibility dialog does remember that I unchecked all those boxes, whenever I open it again to confirm I'm not imagining things. But the changes do not seem to apply in practice.

What do I have to do to make this work? :confused:
 
When you uncheck a category from Compatibility mode, it allows removals of previously protected components. Some components may be protected by multiple Compatibility categories.

After you've removed protection, it won't refresh the text description on the right. That's a hard-coded text to remind you the reason why it was protected in the first place. It doesn't disappear.

But that might be an useful NTLite feature request: clearing the Compatibility text would inform the user they took the right action.
 
Yeah, that would help, thank you.

Alternatively, the compatibility text should either contain all possible sources of blocking, or always update to show a source of blocking (if there currently is one or more), so that the user realizes that there may be multiple sources.
 
Thank you both, done in the next version, it will show only the lock cause.
Currently it shows locked by compatibility list if any is active, not as good of course.
 
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