>As a simple test, I can't get anyone else in my house to use the SS UI,
>though they are all happy with iTunes and find it intuitive.
>
My wife actually finds the Web UI easier to understand and use than the 
two-line SB display.  She keeps pressing up/down instead of left/right and 
generally getting in a muddle.  The Web interface may not be that pretty, but 
for simply selecting and playing an album, its functional and easy to work out.

I agree though, a proper app would be really nice.

Perhaps once the threading issues have been sorted out in a future release, to 
seperate the database, streaming and GUI components, it might be easier to 
build additional UI's.  I would imaging that the web UI would stay in the 
default installation to support all platforms, but a third party may provide 
smaller dedicated GUIs.  Eg. maybe a simple UI to start/stop/pause/ffd/rewind, 
and another one to select music to play.

In fact new UI applications can be written now that use the CLI to get 
information and perform actions.  I'm not sure how slick these apps would be 
using the CLI though - are there any threading issues, eg DB access/locking?

Phil
_______________________________________________
Discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss

Reply via email to