The current plan is that the onebrowser branch will not be included in
7.6. There are significant number of unfinished items and it
introduces a degree of risk that may be more than we are prepared to
accept in 7.6.
There may be a chance to revisit this decision if we can resolve the
issues with the remaining missing functionality. There are significant
advantages in going ahead with onebrowser - which is why it was started
in the first place. Useful comment on the specific issues below could be
helpful.
Functionality missing or significantly different:
- Web-UI
- Skins. Only the Default and Classic skins have been ported. Many
other skins derive from EN, much have which has been ported where
Classic depends upon it, but no testing has been carried out with
other skins. My preference would be for all skins other than
Default and Classic to be removed from the core and be made
available as third-party plugins, if a suitable maintainer would
step forward..
- No Alpha-bar in browse results. It should be possible to add this
in a generic way (to the CLI), although the functionality may be
slightly different. I guess it would be possible to go without this
functionality
- No playlist save and edit functionality. The existing
functionality is based around extensions to the old browse
mechanism, which is now obsolete. A new implementation is needed.
This is a major issue and currently we have no suitable internal
resource available to work on it.
- Advanced search - is this really necessary?
- Simple search (single entry field). I have some code for
BrowseLibrary that wraps the CLI *search* command. It is not yet
committed nor exposed in the WebUI.
- Breadcrumbs missing in some cases.
- Links wrong in a few cases, usually after reasonably deep
nesting.
- Direct jump to modes like 'browse_artists', as supported in ip3k
UI. I note that these are not supported at all in SP players.
- Mixers. No support for Play-Hold (ip3k, SP) or *M* (Web)
functionality. See separate thread on this topic.
Alan.
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