On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:05:15PM +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote: > > I'm different :-) > I use freevo for movie (DVD), mp3, images,
Right. I think at least until recently with the advent of recording, most people were like that, which reflects in the UI design. > I use my normal tv set for > television and a good old vrc for recording. Blech. Once you try a PVR you will never go back to either live TV or the hassle of VCRs. I guarantee it. :-) > Sorry, no. I will add that later. It should be like the image listing > area which auto scrolls up/down Excellent! I think all views (to put in terms of RFC nomenclature) MUST be implicitly srollable and SHOULD pagable (if the user wants to program a key on his remote to move up and down a page at a time). > Actually, it wouldn't be too hard to hide the name; the routines for > displaying the filename could just trim off the date. I like having > the dates in the filenames mainly for when I am looking at the folder > via the command line. All of that is true, but putting the date into the name is redundant when you have a date (three of them in fact -- mtime, ctime and atime) on the file already. The mtime of a media file should reflect the time it was created (contrary to normal UNIX usage which is the last modification time). Then you needn't worry about stripping it from filenames and all that sort of junk, and it's right there in an "ls -l" if you want to see it on the command line. > I'm sure the popup box in the new skin could be extended. Indeed. I have not had time to dig into the new gui yet though. > I recall > someone mentioning that Rob (I think it was Rob) had implemented some > sort of input system ala cell phone. :-) I don't need anything that elaborate. A popup with a question, and a Yes button and a No button (where the left/right can be used to navigate from one to the other and "select" to choose one) will suffice. Needless to say the default state should be _no_ to prevent nasty accidents from fast fingers. > I would like to see that changed too; but I haven't had time to merge > up to Dischi's new skin, when I do, that's one of the usability issues > on my TODO list... Great! :-) > My rule for usability: If you need to explain it, it's probably not > intuitive. :) Good rule. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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