gharris999 wrote: > This is definitely a problem with the plugin: too many options and the > permutations and combinations of some of the selections can lead to > occasionally counter-intuitive results. But please remember that > practically each one of these options has been added to SrvrPowerCtrl > because of specific user requests. And in the past, when options have > become redundant or obsolete, I actually have removed some settings. > > I've tried my best to group the options into logical sets and to provide > enough help text (hidden behind the (i) icons) to provide explanations > for each one. But the shear mass of them is, admittedly, daunting. > > If anyone has any clever ideas about how to clean up or reorganize the > settings page while keeping all the flexibility the plugin currently > provides, I'm all ears. > > Some time ago, I think epoch1970 suggested a tabbed interface to the > settings page. While that idea certainly has merit, it's unclear to me > if 1). that could potentially further obfuscate the interactions between > different groups of options and 2). add significantly to the weight of > html, css and javascript "guts" packaged with the plugin. For instance, > a quick google of "perl template toolkit tabbed interface" doesn't turn > up anything promising. So while the LMS default webUI provides a fairly > nice tabbed interface for server options, I'm not enough of a html jock > to leverage what's provided in the UI's css to implement "sub-tabs" for > SrvrPowerCtrl. I'm guessing that any tabbed interface for my settings > page would likely have to be a "roll your own" kind of deal using > additional javascript and/or css.
I think the plugins great and the settings are fine to understand. I just overlooked the shutdown to mysqueezebox.com. In regards to ipeng its under the extras.. Cheers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simon_rb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56871 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
