On 21/12/2010 06:06, James Trietsch wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
>
>> From: Adam Charrett<a...@dvbstreamer.org>
>> To: freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Sent: Wed, December 15, 2010 5:20:15 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Freevo-devel] Fixed favorites GUI sort order and added priority
>> modification (Tracker #3131813)
>>
>> I agree, in cases like this the menu option  should really be a sentence,
>> ie 'Enable duplicate recording prevention'.  Even then its not great. I've
>> had a quick think and I think the best  approach may be to use the table
>> style menus used for directory  configuration, where on the left is the
> [...]
>> recordings are  prevented and selecting it would change the setting to a X.
>> I think this has  a couple of advantages as your eyes don't have to travel
>> up the screen to  find out the current setting.
>>
>> Any thoughts  people?
> I like it so much that I went and did it. Now all the favorite information is
> held in a table-menu, and you select the item to change it. I also took a 
> moment
> to expand out the days of the week (Mon, Tue, Wed are now Monday, Tuesday,
> Wednesday) but perhaps this could be changed later to conform to some sort of
> locale profile (maybe someone likes abbreviated days of the week). I wasn't 
> sure
> if there was a way to do a tick-mark for options, so I was a little more 
> verbose
> with the duplicate prevention and episode filter options. Looks fine to me,
> though.
>
> I haven't changed the screen layout yet because I got an interesting idea I
> wanted to play with: Now that all the information for the favorite is 
> displayed
> on the bottom half of the screen, what if the top half could be an IMDB
> information panel about the favorite, similar to the recording manager's info
> display for recorded shows? A picture of the show, the title of the show,
> recording information (<day>s at<time>  on<channel>) as the subtitle and the
> description. Might be classy... but also could be unnecessary. I think I'll
> still mess with it though.
I think this sounds really nice. I've been evaluating XBMC recently to 
see what the other media centres are like. It exactly this kind of 
finishing touch where you have automatic integration of imdb for tv 
shows and freedb for music that makes it really nice.
> Regardless, I'll sync with SVN and submit a patch for this tomorrow.
>
> James
Great.

John

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