rbz5416;643123 Wrote: > > I appreciate it's all unpaid but fail to understand why he can't simply > document how his plugins are to be used. His Wiki page gives nothing > beyond installation so I guess the next step would be to trawl the > forums trying to find some clues. I really don't have the time or the > inclination to "play". > The wiki is editable by anyone, the idea is that everyone should contribute with howto's and similar information. I can admit that it could be a lot better and that's why I put it on the wiki so the people using them could help me document them better, I simply don't have the time to do it myself, at least not without getting some kind of economical compensation so I can quit my day job and spend the time working on my plugins/applets instead. As long as they are free, I'm afraid the amount of documentation I can provide myself is going to be limited. The general rule is that if you don't understand something, just ask in the forum and someone will help, this works in almost every time, people really want to help around here.
There are limitations in what you can do as a Now Playing screen, so the Custom Clock is nowhere near perfect as the possibilities are greatly limited by Logitech's APIs. We have asked for improvements to allow third party Now Playing screens, but it has so far not got priority within Logitech: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15067 However, you can replace the standard Now Playing screen completely with a version based on Custom Clock. 1. Follow the installation instruction and install Custom Clock applet: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Custom_Clock_applet 2. On the Radio goto: Settings/Screen/Screensavers/Custom Clock settings/Replace Now Playing 3. Select the style you like to use instead of the standard Now Playing screen There currently isn't graphical previews available for all the styles, but if someone is interested in providing that on a suitable wiki page, I'm sure it would be appreciated by others, we could maybe use this page: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Custom_Clock_styles Also please note that Custom Clock is based on a "Do it yourself" principle with the recommendation that you should share your work so others can use it. So the applet doesn't come with a lot of styles made by myself, many of the included styles have been contributed by community members and included in the distribution. This is very important as my graphical design skills are a bit limited. So if you decide to make your own style, please share it, someone else might want the same thing. rbz5416;643123 Wrote: > > Just wondered what the reasoning was behind the Now Playing options for > the Radio being so limited in the first place? I'd have thought it would > make more sense to have them standardised across the range? > You are not alone, we all want more and Logitech want to spend as few resources as possible. What we get is a compromise that works good enough for most people. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to encourage future presence on this forum and/or third party plugin/applet development, 'donations are always appreciated' (http://erland.isaksson.info/donate)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89006 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
