This release improves the overall stability and compatibility with different system and mod configurations.
Changes over version 0.7.11:
- Detect encoding when reading and explicitly set it when writing files
- Skip readme files when looking for inputs and strip whitespace
- Write config and mod list files after every change
- Remember the size of the list views
- Improve robustness of reading and writing mod list xml
- Show more friendly welcome message
- Check for correct filenames before enabling and disabling mods
- Try multiple methods when opening files
- Show a message if the config couldn't be read and start with a new one
- Prevent installation of mods from within the game directory
- Only show script merger message when mod installation was successful
- Prevent base xml files from being removed while uninstalling mods
- Slightly improve key rebinding dialog
- Use Python 3.8.5 and PySide2
This release also also includes changes that make The Witcher 3 Mod Manager compatible with running on Linux and allows it to manage Steam Proton installations.