Got a little side-tracked.  I decided/realized I needed to modernize the
SLX user interface.  Windows API programming does not make it easy to
make things look different so it took few false trails before I came to
this new look.

I've been using the Material Skin exclusively for the last few days.  So
this is where I stand with making it work in SLX.

SLX will have a new more appropriate color theme.  And the control
layout will be dynamic, adjusting as necessary to smaller, landscape
and/or portrait window shapes.  I've eliminated old fashioned Win32
controls and replaced with modern looking controls.  For example, here
is the settings tab in a smaller window size, and the corresponding look
of the Material Skin.

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Also gone will be the "Advanced Squeezelite" page which only showed you
what the squeezelite command line parameters are. All that real estate
was not too useful and pretty ugly.  I've moved the mandatory "credits"
tab under "About".  Two other unneeded controls in Settings will be
removed - the power switch, and the "Close Output Device on Idle" check
box.   And perhaps I can reclaim the left-side navigation menu space by
using a different approach for that.  All this is better use of real
estate, and a simpler cleaner interface.

Still to do, I have to create an  interface for switching between the
Material Skin and the Default Skin on the fly.  And then I need to
integrate with the skin's local storage in order to have the tray menu
commands that need to apply to the currently selected player work.

So stay tuned.  (I figure we're a week or two away.)

Long Live Logitech SqueezeBox!!!

R Greg Dawson


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