erland wrote: 
> I think it will always use the same font size, but it typically works as
> a screen saver, so when you use the remove the screen saver will be
> deactivated and then the font will change and when the screen saver is
> activated again it will change back to the Custom Clock style. If you
> use the Custom Clock only approach, it's possible to replace the
> standard Now Playing screen with a Custom Clock style, but doing so will
> result in that you no longer can use the touch screen on the Now Playing
> screen as the Custom Clock applet doesn't offer any possibility to have
> touch controls on the style. You can still use the IR remote though.
Mmmh, this sounds problematic:
1. The last solution (to replace the Standard Now Playing screen with a
Custom Clock style) would be the best way but is no option, if the touch
screen cannot be used.
2. Designing the screen saver with the small font (used with the touch
screen) has the following problem: If you sit far away from the Touch
you cannot read the display. And if you use the remote the screen saver
will be deactivated and the font will be changed to the big version, but
the COMPOSER and GROUPING tags will no longer be displayed (because the
screen saver is deactivated). So you never will be able to read the
COMPOSER and GROUPING of the currently playing song.
3. Designing the screen saver with the big font (used with the remote)
will result that even if you are sitting close to the Touch always the
big font is used until you touch the display. This would result in a lot
of horizontally scrolling and a bad optical experience. And I assume
that in this case you need always an additional touch of the display if
you want to control the box using the touch display, since you mentioned
that the Custom Clock applet doesn't offer any possibility to have touch
controls (this is probaly also true if the screen saver is designed with
the small font).

The problem seems to be that there isn't a way to replace parts of the
now playing screen (define your own text lines) or to replace the whole
now playing screen with the possibility to define touch control buttons,
but that only a screen saver is used which covers the now playing
screen.

Is there no way to define the strings which are displayed in the now
playing screen? Could the Information Screen applet help in this case?

Best regards
Dieter


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