CardinalFang Wrote: > Fair enough, but I don't want to have to go out and buy a 770 or a PDA > just to be able to control my music half as well as a Sonus unit. 770's > and PDAs cost a few hundred dollars too. > > It's a laudable idea and quite cool that the server interface works on > many different devices so that if you have one handy, you can use it, > but I don't have one and would prefer a dedicated solution with > instantaneous start-up and no launching web browsers just to get a > different tune selected. > > I want the right physical buttons in the right place for music search > and playback control, scroll wheels and fast screen updates, not the > best compromise as part of a one-size-fits-all solution. If Slim made > one, I'd buy it in preference anyday, but it seems to me I'm not going > to get it. > > Paul
Even though there's been a fair bit of vitriol sprayed back and forth on this whole "flash interface" subthread, I don't think your ideas are invalid. I'm not a flash fan for many of the reasons already brought up (needs browser plugin, proprietary, costs an absurd amount of money for a developer to get started with it, is not truly cross-platform), but I'm not one to shun great UI work just because of the underlying technology. FWIW, I don't think there's anything stopping someone from developing a flash interface using the slimserver CLI as an API. There is also no reason that said interface would have to follow the same convention as a standard skin, either. CardinalFang Wrote: > > Have we given ourselves the design restriction that a graphical UI > remote and the server code have to have the same interface and code > base? > I don't think I quite understand your question, but I believe the answer is NO. I believe the slimserver CLI would allow you to build a graphical UI in whatever way you'd see fit. One last thing: Why don't you sell your Squeezebox and buy a Sonos? Is there something that's keeping you aligned with Slim for your streaming audio needs? I don't mean to put you off with that question, I'm just trying to figure out why you wouldn't already be a Sonos owner if the remote is so appealing to you... If it's cost that's holding you back from Sonos, you should drop the "slim needs to build a graphical remote" thing, because there's no way a squeezebox plus slimgraphicalremote would be appreciably cheaper than the Sonos solution. #!/ben -- bklaas "the Nokia770 skin guy" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25395 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
