Re: [slim] Best Way to Globally customise menus

2008-05-10 Thread Mnyb
Why not a user configurable template for players not yet connected especially internet players as softsqueeze or winamp itunes whatever, when your connecting from the outside world (not your home net ). Not only for the menus, there other player settings i like to have on my remote conection.

Re: [slim] Best Way to Globally customise menus

2008-05-10 Thread peterw
Mnyb;300689 Wrote: Why not a user configurable template for players not yet connected especially internet players as softsqueeze or winamp itunes whatever, when your connecting from the outside world (not your home net ). Not only for the menus, there other player settings i like to have on

Re: [slim] Best Way to Globally customise menus

2008-05-10 Thread nolan
peterw;300662 Wrote: OK, see http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html :-) I'd still like to implement a couple ideas I laid out in http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40924 1) an API for other plugins (SaverSwitcher could really use that!) 2) the ability to drill

Re: [slim] Best Way to Globally customise menus

2008-05-10 Thread peterw
nolan;300863 Wrote: The only thing that confused me was when I ticked the 'server' box and overwrote my player name settings but that was quickly resolved! Eek. Yeah, that's a bug -- it should know better than to copy that, and a number of other settings. I just released 7a3 which seems to

Re: [slim] Best Way to Globally customise menus

2008-05-09 Thread peterw
kdf;299946 Wrote: On 7-May-08, at 10:29 PM, Michael Herger wrote: [color=green] IMHO this is would be a _great_ opportunity for a plugin developer. If it's well done, it can eventually end up in the main distribution, as so many plugins did (RandomMix, SongScanner, new

Re: [slim] Best Way to Globally customise menus

2008-05-08 Thread Michael Herger
yet, I can certainly see that it would be very hard to write a plugin that would simply merge into the server in a ways that would be nice to see as an integrated solution. Rather than have this button on every page I'd see one separate page where you can select which settings you want to

Re: [slim] Best Way to Globally customise menus

2008-05-08 Thread nolan
Thanks guys, I didn't realise there wouldn't be a simple answer to this :) Thinking about it, if the player settings dropdown had a 'master' section and then the individual player sections had an 'inherit master settings' or similar then this would achieve what I want. Shame I'm not much of a

[slim] Best Way to Globally customise menus

2008-05-07 Thread nolan
I've got 3 Squeezeboxes around the house and I'm looking for the best way to setup the same custom menu structure for each? It's nothing complex but I like to remove the menus I don't use and just have the ones I use all the time, i.e. Album, Artist AlienBBC at the root level. What's the best

Re: [slim] Best Way to Globally customise menus

2008-05-07 Thread peterw
Right now, I fear that editing the .pref files might be best. I've given some thought to a plugin that would make this stuff easier (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40924) but have not written anything yet. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins:

Re: [slim] Best Way to Globally customise menus

2008-05-07 Thread JJZolx
peterw;299909 Wrote: Right now, I fear that editing the .pref files might be best. I've given some thought to a plugin that would make this stuff easier (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40924) but have not written anything yet. IMO, some type of player management needs to

Re: [slim] Best Way to Globally customise menus

2008-05-07 Thread peterw
JJZolx;299927 Wrote: IMO, some type of player management needs to become a part of the main server settings rather than implemented as a plugin. ... Some enhancement requests have been filed and some interest expressed from the powers that be, but obviously Logitech's developer resources

Re: [slim] Best Way to Globally customise menus

2008-05-07 Thread JJZolx
peterw;299929 Wrote: As for whether the plugin is Official or Third Party, well, I don't much care. Users care when plugins are not kept current or don't work in the development branch that they're following. Core features are less likely to remain broken for long, let alone abandoned by a

Re: [slim] Best Way to Globally customise menus

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Herger
This isn't the type of thing that is handled well by a third party plugin, with users needing to rely on plugin updates as new versions of the server come out. IMHO this is would be a _great_ opportunity for a plugin developer. If it's well done, it can eventually end up in the main

Re: [slim] Best Way to Globally customise menus

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Herger
IMHO this is would be a _great_ opportunity for a plugin developer. If it's well done, it can eventually end up in the main distribution, as so many plugins did (RandomMix, SongScanner, new Favorites, old ShoutcastBrowser...). Oh, I almost forgot to mention the often asked for switch server

Re: [slim] Best Way to Globally customise menus

2008-05-07 Thread kdf
On 7-May-08, at 10:29 PM, Michael Herger wrote: This isn't the type of thing that is handled well by a third party plugin, with users needing to rely on plugin updates as new versions of the server come out. IMHO this is would be a _great_ opportunity for a plugin developer. If it's well