Triode wrote: > I've updated the grid branch on googlecode to do something like this, > but using a 6x3 grid as I think the text is more readable at this size. > > I would be interested if one or more people could try it - it works > using a new HDGridSkin which is 1920x1080 only. > > Note that in grid menus the right and left buttons are used to navigate > around the grid - you need to use enter for "go" and backspace for > "back" functions. This means that you need an alternative remote with > more buttons than a squeezebox remote if using flirc, but I think it > works reasonably well. > > There are several rough edges, but it is at a state where its worth > asking for feedback. > Some feedback and ideas (I've tried it on a 1080p TV with a USB keyboard on the Wandboard).
1. Grid view works great for album views 2. In current playlist I would like to have a separate screen which contained: - Now Playing information on left half of screen with big cover art of current track - Vertical current playlist on right half of screen with small cover art and vertical track list instead of grid view 3. Moving left when standing on top left item should move back, you shouldn't be forced to use "Esc" to move back. Typical case would be a user entering the menu with right arrow and then regret it and want to go back. Esc is fine when you are in the middle of the menu and want to move out without having to navigate to the first item first. 4. Not sure if it's my cover art being too small or if there is some antialiasing missing in the rescaling logic, the album covers generally doesn't look as good as they do in the grid view on iPeng. 5. Default icons needs to have higher resolution, but I'm sure you are already aware of this, it's not really unique to the grid skin, I just noticed it now when using it on a 1080p TV. 6. The track list view when navigating into an album should have a separate screen, something similar to what I suggested for the current playlist screen with: - Big album cover to the left of the screen with some album information - Track list of album to the right Currently it wastes a lot of screen space by just showing the tracks with text 7. Browsing artists, genres and years also wastes a lot of screen space. Not sure how to fix that. It would make sense to show currently playing track to the left but it feels strange to do so if you doesn't do it always and I really want point 6 above, so I'm not sure what the best solution would be. Maybe showing currently playing track always on the left side would be the best way. 8. My Apps/Spotify/<Playlist> and also other views which list tracks would be better with a vertical view than the grid view. Possibly two column view with text to the right instead of below the album covers could be a solution. I'm just not sure how logical it would be to the user. 9. Grid view works good for the settings menu. 10. Grid view works pretty good in the TuneIn menus under Internet Radio, so I think it's a good idea to have it in menus that lists radio stations. As a side note, is there some way to control JiveLite on the TV from another computer or an iPad ? Making that possible would make me use it a lot more because I usually have another computer or iPad in front of me when listening to music. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98156 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
