On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, James Trietsch wrote:
> So for reasons I won't get into (complicated story, and probably
> embarrassing too), despite SVN updates my files were being held back
> because the old copies were considered my working copies and the current
> revisions were being overwritten... I finally sat down today and
> untangled the mess (thank you, revert command!) and fired it back up.
> Some little growing pains (see below) but I got it going and all I can
> say is:
>
> Holy Smokes! It's looking sharp! Great job and many kudos to both the
> developers and everyone out there running Freevo and testing it and
> making suggestions. Maybe it's just because it's been so long since I've
> seen an actual update, but this leap was huge.
>
> Quick things that come to mind:
>
> Biggest problem I had was the system exiting two seconds into playing
> any audio, no traceback or anything. If I started audio and immediately
> kicked it into the idlebar (pressing 'display'), it would play fine.
> When I tried to 'Show Player', it finally coughed up a traceback:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/main.py", line
> 296, in eventhandler
> consumed = app.eventhandler(event)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/menu.py", line
> 858, in eventhandler
> self._handle_play_item(menu, event)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/menu.py", line
> 663, in _handle_play_item
> action(arg=arg, menuw=self)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/menu.py", line
> 106, in select
> self.function(arg=self.arg, menuw=menuw)
> File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/audio/plugins/detach.py",
> line 157, in show
> self._attach(menuw)
> File
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/audio/plugins/detach.py",
> line 142, in _attach
> gui.show()
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/audio/player.py",
> line 151, in show
> self.refresh()
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/freevo/audio/player.py",
> line 183, in refresh
> skin.draw('player', self.item, transition=transition)
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'transition' referenced before assignment
>
> It would appear the definition of 'transition' is held inside an if
> statement, although the skin.draw statement is not. When the if
> statement is bypassed, 'transition' is never set. I fixed it by adding
> 'transition=None' before the if statement, but this may need to be
> better fixed.
That is useful to know I was just about to start investigating that :-)
> LOVE the new text entry screen, and I love the triple-tap shortcuts. I
> just was a little thrown when it came time to enter the line after
> triple-tapping it in. I pressed 'Enter', but since the selector was on
> the 'A', it added an A to the entry box. Perhaps if the triple-tap is
> used, the selector jumps to 'Search', so all you have to do is press
> 'Enter' to go?
I Like this idea I see what I can do....
> I also love the new shutdown screen with the colorful icons. The option
> to reboot is very welcome! However, I think it needs a more obvious
> 'Cancel'. I pressed 'Exit' thinking it meant exit the dialog box...
> oops! I know now I can use escape to get out of it, but that's not
> immediately apparent. Perhaps under the three buttons have a long bar
> for 'Cancel'?
Hmm, I've always wondered about my decision not to add a cancel button,
> And speaking of 'Exit', is there an option to get rid of that button for
> those of us with stand-alone dedicated Freevos? On my box, pressing
> 'Exit' will drop you to a terminal window (on the TV) full of leftover
> log information and the only way to restart it is to power cycle or ssh
> in and restart the front-end service. For me, better to just have 'Power
> Off' and 'Reboot'.
I've used cancel to allow me to restart the freevo interface by adding a
while loop in the shell script that start freevo, means I can easily
restart the interface without waiting for the whole system to reboot.
Can you raise a feature request for this on the tracker.
> Tried out the Category Search... I really like it, but I think it needs
> some kind of indicator when there's more than one episode for a listed
> show. Obviously you should select a category to find shows, but I
> couldn't figure out why some shows immediately displayed information and
> some didn't... until I selected one that didn't have any info and found
> the whole submenu of episodes. Again, something that isn't immediately
> obvious. I'm not sure how to do it yet (perhaps something like the icons
> in the Recordings Manager, or display episode names in the info area,
> also like RM?) but it's something to consider.
Again another good idea ...
> Finally, and this is purely aesthetics... the new dialog boxes look a
> little strange. I think it's because they have lightweight borders (one
> pixel?) and light font weights, when the rest of my interface (Blurr)
> has heavy borders and bolder fonts. It just doesn't look like it fits. I
> also liked the old progress bar (white bar inside blue box) rather than
> the new red bar, but I _do_ like it showing numerical progress (like
> 5/10) when available. The bouncing red bar for the indefinite wait bugs
> me... I'd rather see a throbber of some sort that stays put and animates.
Try out the proper skin 'blurr' rather than my amateur "he's what you can
do with this" base skin :-)
> Which reminds me, I see the clock icon for the lower right corner is now
> animated. That was a great surprise.
>
> Okay, I think I've said enough (for now). And I'll probably have changed
> my mind on some of these things an hour from now. But I just wanted to
> say thanks to everyone for such great work and give some impressions of
> what I thought could be improved.
>
> Cheers!
>
> James
> Springfield, OR USA
Suggestions for improvements very much welcomed and encouraged,
Thanks
Adam
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