Paul Volkaerts wrote:
I'm not sure that fixes many of the usability problems by itself; and
I personally don't like losing large areas of screen real-estate in
the way the playback-tree does. I actually think the MythMusic look
and feel is quite good but there were a few problems not fixed by a
new tree. You need several views: active playlist, library by artist,
library by genre, playlists, and you need a search capability. And
you need to flick between these views easily.
So really the problem is you need a lot of trees (or one BIG one). If
this is implemented as one tree, you are endlessly going left and
right as per today. So I implemented as separate trees that you can
cycle through using left/right. It sounds like a small point but it
massively reduces keystrokes. To go from the whats-playing view to
the artist list you hit "right" instead of "left, up, right".
I threw some screenshots onto a server as it helps to explain ...
I think your changes are looking very promising... I've been totally out
of Mythhacking for a long time due to work commitments, so can't really
comment more thoroughly than that, but I do like the look of what you
have done.
One comment about the keyboard (aside from Stuart suggesting that SVN
already has a keyboard...), does this support the mobile phone type
texting interface that already exists in some myth input text boxes?
This would no doubt be quicker than a visual keyboard for "power" users
(and those with letters next to the numbers on their remote control
and/or txt addicts)?
Col.
--
+------------------------+
| Colin Guthrie |
+------------------------+
| myth(at)colin.guthr.ie |
| http://colin.guthr.ie/ |
+------------------------+
_______________________________________________
mythtv-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
