2014-01-14, 22:22
Nice update for Movies-Info Strip View with the larger posters (sans labels). I really like that view!
While I'm in a visuals mid-set, would you consider adding a toggle setting into the left menu (Movies), to Show/Hide the Watched Flag? I'm not fond of the green check mark particularly and for me at least, the status doesn't serve much of a purpose. I know that I can eliminate the flag altogether with an advancedsetting.xml attribute (<playcountminimumpercent>101</playcountminimumpercent> -Minimum percentage that a video has to be played before it is marked as watched, or conversely set to 101 to never auto-mark items as watched). This latter setting however, doesn't increment the Played Count and alternatively, manually flagging "Mark as Unwatched" wipes out the Last Played date/time stamp altogether in the files table of the database. I find this information to be useful, however it isn't displayed anywhere either. This brings me to my next suggestion, which is to add both the Played Count and Last Played date to the Information Screen below the Runtime section. That would be very cool - and useful too! This data is already available in the Movieview.frm table view.
And... Music-Album View, the sort order options do not seem to work properly. When I select Sort-Year I expect it would give me Artist-Year-Album, Sort-Artist should give me Artist-Album. The Jump-to (Shift+Letter) follows the Album index in all cases, which it should for Sort-Album, however should jump to Artist in the other two sort scenarios. Take a close look when you have a chance.
While I'm in a visuals mid-set, would you consider adding a toggle setting into the left menu (Movies), to Show/Hide the Watched Flag? I'm not fond of the green check mark particularly and for me at least, the status doesn't serve much of a purpose. I know that I can eliminate the flag altogether with an advancedsetting.xml attribute (<playcountminimumpercent>101</playcountminimumpercent> -Minimum percentage that a video has to be played before it is marked as watched, or conversely set to 101 to never auto-mark items as watched). This latter setting however, doesn't increment the Played Count and alternatively, manually flagging "Mark as Unwatched" wipes out the Last Played date/time stamp altogether in the files table of the database. I find this information to be useful, however it isn't displayed anywhere either. This brings me to my next suggestion, which is to add both the Played Count and Last Played date to the Information Screen below the Runtime section. That would be very cool - and useful too! This data is already available in the Movieview.frm table view.
And... Music-Album View, the sort order options do not seem to work properly. When I select Sort-Year I expect it would give me Artist-Year-Album, Sort-Artist should give me Artist-Album. The Jump-to (Shift+Letter) follows the Album index in all cases, which it should for Sort-Album, however should jump to Artist in the other two sort scenarios. Take a close look when you have a chance.