By the way, if you're rethinking the interface, could you consider the idea of displaying more than one preview of the file ?
I'll explain myself, since it's probably not so useful for everyone. Usually, I watch tv shows and it happens that I wait some weeks (or months even) between two episodes, depending on my time schedule. Or sometimes, I'd like to rewatch a good episode which exact episode number i don't remember. Usually, I feel that one screenshot for the episode is not so useful (unless it display that one character doing something very specific, but that doesn't happen every day). Maybe trying to display multiple screenshots at multiple times in the video could be more practical. This kind of things could be done if you decide to use a vertical display. I understand that it's probably only an idea for tv shows so it could be some kind of option somewhere, or only if you have multiple files in a folder. Patrick On Jan 9, 2008 11:43 PM, Kevin Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Florian, > > That would work for the list view, but not the other views. Also, it > might be a bit tight for files with longish descriptions. Splitting > vertically into two sections doesn't have these limitations. > > Kevin > > > On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:43 +0100, Florian Boucault wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I believe a not too intrusive way to display metadata would be below the > > current preview. Transition wise, the preview could shrink a bit after a > > couple of seconds to make space for metadata text that could fade in. > > What do you think? > > > > Florian > > > > > > El lun, 07-01-2008 a las 10:24 -0800, Kevin Fox escribió: > > > On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 18:58 +0100, Philippe Normand wrote: > > > > Le lundi 07 janvier 2008 à 18:39 +0100, Patrick Dessalle a écrit : > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > I don't know if it's the right place to ask question but I don't > like > > > > > IRC ^^ > > > > > > > > > > I've tested Elisa (ubuntu gutsy packages) on the computer hooked > on my > > > > > TV but there are a few limitations that make it quite unusable for > me > > > > > (the main issues being the subtitles handling > > > > > > > > I believe we still support subtitle files (but not vob sub yet). > Just > > > > name your sub file like the video file, but with a different > extension, > > > > depending on the sub format (srt or txt in most cases). > > > > > > > > > and the fact that file/folders names are truncated which isn't > very > > > > > useful when trying to watch videos of some tv show since you don't > > > > > always get to see the season and episode number). > > > > > > > > Well, there's no easy answer to your concerns at this point. The > ideal > > > > solution would be to not cut labels but make them horizontally > animated. > > > > Eg, make them move from left to right back and forth, slowly. > > > > Unfortunately that's not supported yet in Pigment. :( > > > > > > Not a very general solution. When you have a lot of similar things > like > > > 4 seasons of some show, you need more data then a scrolling filename > can > > > easily provide. > > > > > > I've been working a bit on a MythTV plugin for Elisa, and kind of run > > > into the same problem. I think a better solution would be to split the > > > screen into two parts. The top half or 2/3rds would be the way things > > > are now with the icons/preview, and the bottom part would be the full > > > file name, or if there is metadata, the metadata provided by the > plugin. > > > stuff like: > > > > > > The Simpsons - Episode 3 > > > Channel: 4 > > > Date: 12/04/2007 > > > Description: > > > Lisa gets a .... > > > > > > See (http://www.mythtv.org/mythimages/conflictresolution.png) for a > > > screenshot of Myth. Think, the bottom half of that screenshot, with > the > > > top half being elisa's file chooser. > > > > > > Kevin > > > > > > > > > > > > Other than that, elisa is a very promising project and one of the > big > > > > > selling point for me, compared to mythtv and freevo, was that > > > > > installing the deb and running it just worked with HAL support and > > > > > without too much conf file tweaking. > > > > > > > > > > I'd like to check out if the current SVN version would be > something I > > > > > could use on my TV (meaning the bugs that annoy me are fixed) or > if I > > > > > should create new tickets or try to write some plugins myself. > > > > > When I run elisa.py on a "fresh" update (i.e. without any ~/.elisa > > > > > folder), the programs fails to load a component. I've tried each > and > > > > > every *.conf from the sample_config folder and they all fail on > some > > > > > exception at some point. Usually something about a frontend that > can't > > > > > be created. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Can you give more details please? What component is failing to load. > If > > > > you all dependencies to be installed, install the "elisa-extra" > package. > > > > > > > > > By the way, on hal_service.py, line 62, on my version of dbus ( > 0.82.4 > > > > > from Debian sid), I don't have a property "message" for > DBusException, > > > > > I've modified that line (you don't use the value of message > anyway) to > > > > > let elisa fail at some later point. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hmm ok, can you give us the traceback you got? We'll find a proper > fix > > > > for it, for all versions of DBus deployed around ;) > > > > > > > > > My question/suggestion is basically: does elisa run straight out > of > > > > > svn (meaning i messed up somewhere) or is it normal that it > doesn't > > > > > work on my machine ? > > > > > > > > > > > > > For now, I advise you to wait the release to use Elisa "in > production". > > > > We are fixing some issues still, there will have some activity in > SVN > > > > this week :) If you're using Sid, the official Elisa package will be > > > > updated shortly after the release. > > > > > > > > > Thank you for having read this awfully long email, > > > > > > > > > > > > > You're welcome, thanks for the feedback :) > > > > > > > > Philippe >
