Several comments after digesting the weekend's posts... First, our build server has been having serious issues in the last week and our team's ability to get immediate attention to problems is diminished these days. Unfortunately the home menu customization has yet to be in a published firmware yet. Look for a 7.6 firmware >= r8987. Hopefully that gets built a.s.a.p. this week.
Second, to clarify-- this work is 100% client-side and has no implications to the server. Thirdly, I should say that the principal motivation for the CM-driven design for this feature is to support menu *reordering*, which I've been given as a 7.6 requirement. CMs certainly have their UI drawbacks (the biggest one IMO is discoverability), but one thing they easily provide is a scalable interface for doing different tasks on an item. Hide, add, move to top, move to bottom, up one, down one, etc. The previous interface in Settings->Home Menu was crippled in comparison to this. Another way of putting it, if I'm adding menu reorder functions to a context menu, it follows that the add/hide items should also be there. Suggestions that I think will likely happen: Add ability to hide items from submenus. Do not put the "Restore Hidden Menu Items" on the home menu. Suggestions that will very likely not happen: Adding ability to push home menu items across different submenus Web interface control of squeezeplay device menu ordering Drag and drop on Squeezebox Touch Lastly, the big checkbox menu to add/remove from the home menu...I can put it back easy enough, but none of you thought of that menu as a UI disaster? I wrote it and have long thought it was an embarrassment... so...what I could do is have a menu of a few items under Home Menu Settings->Home Menu-> Restore Defaults-> Edit Home Menu Items-> Restore Hidden Items-> ...something like that. Alternatively on the Restore Hidden Menu Items I could instead just call it "Hidden Items", and the user could access those items directly there, or re-add them back to the home menu via CM. That would allow access to seldom-used items without having to add them back to the home menu first. 7.6 is a ways off yet, so there's time to iterate on this a bit. Finally, Erland you're correct there are no hooks for 3rd party applets. Apologies for that, but it really didn't make a lot of sense here. My goal on 3rd party support this year is to get a decent means for developers to add custom Now Playing screens. cheers, #!/ben -- bklaas Logitech Developer: Squeezeplay/SqueezeOS/SqueezeboxController/SqueezeCenter Community Developer: Nokia770Skin http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ 'KHAAAN!' (http://khaaan.com/)...'BUNNIES!' (http://home.pacbell.net/bettychu/2003allbreedbisris/BIS.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80658 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
