For Material 1.3.0 one of the features I'm currently thinking about implementing is a Material-specific Browse Modes setting. This is a set of checkboxes in 'Server Settings / Plugins / Material Skin' page, the same as what appears in 'Player Settings / Additional Browse Modes' This will allow controlling the standard (Artist, Album, etc) browse modes that will appear under 'My Music' in Material - and will be the same no matter what player is selected.
As a user its always struck me as odd that the list of browse modes needs to be set per player. Now, I can see the use-case when the player is a real squeezebox, and hence it has its own on-player menus - therefore controlling the selection here makes sense. But, with a control point (such as Material, iPeng, SqueezeCtrl) this (to me) does not make much sense, and the list of modes on these should (ideally) be per-user. For Material, pinnnig items to the home-screen is a way of allowing a user to control their list of modes. The next logical step was to make the list of modes under 'My Music' be consistent no matter what player is selected. And this is what I'm proposing to implement for 1.3.0 Before anyone asks, I'm not planning on implementing a toggle between per-player and material-set browse modes. The appearance of non-standard items (CustomBrowse, TrackStat, etc) will remain unchanged - as (AFAIK) you cannot toggle these on/off per player. If anyone has a git checkout and wants to try this, its in the 201-browse-modes branch (201 being the github issue) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cpd73's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66686 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109624 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
