Sune;189551 Wrote: > > ... many good things said which I removed ... > > ...for the commercial Slim/Logitech guys following this thread, I would > direct my attention at getting all the help possible given to this > guy... > >
Wise words ! Too add some comments (or ramblings) I'm not saying its directly comparable, nor that slim should play copycat but... Like it or not, OS X's (now slightly dated) Aqua UI, Vista's Aero UI, the even more advanced accelerated X server from xorg, and the countless examples of modern web-designs and applications using rounded corners, glassy surfaces, transperancy, reflections, shadows and animations, must give some hints as to what a modern UI behaves and looks like. Compare that to the slimserver interface which bears more similarity to the application my bank accountant is using when calculating how much red ink is needed for our meetings. Add to the fact that the use of the afore mentioned effects seems to be particularly prevalent in the domain of multimedia applications, and I dare claim that I'd be pretty difficult to convince otherwise. I am quite sure that the current interface leaves much to be improved. Not saying that the UI should be some insane cryengine2 thingy. For the majority of my use cases a simple interface with a semantics that wifes, husbands, guests, and children can understand, and which makes some set of core functionalities available and presents them in a "pretty way", is my whish. It's been said before, but candidates for such core functionality is, of course, playback control and along with that browsability of the music collection. The slimfx interface could solve this pretty well I think. Another thing could be visual presentation of the music collection, i.e. albumart. I mention/repeat these because they are exactly the sort of things I did with my music collection before, only now the possibility is there to do it much better. I know this has been discussued many times before, I just couldn't keep my ... shut. It's not meant as something the community should take on, rather I wrote this because Slimdevices seems to actually listens to its users. Looking forward to my next apt-get upgrade ;) Thanks for reading. Regards Bjørn -- bhaagensen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32422
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