2011-04-10, 17:13
SpectreX Wrote:Now, if you use it as more than a HTPC, but as a workstation/HTPC hybrid, it makes sense to have a mouse, but as i said, even with the default Confluence skin i find it clumsy to navigate using a mouse (it`s easier/faster to use the up/down etc. keys on the keyboard actually). I mean, how do you open up the Context Menu or bring up the Info panel for a movie with just a mouse?
Anyway, most people were offended by the way you provided "feedback", not by the fact that you did it.
What do you mean? The movie info is simply by hovering above the movie in my library, right clicking, and choosing Movie Information.
This is a screen that I dont actually frequently use, if I used it more frequently, I would just bind the key "I" to my mouse, so if I over over a movie, and hit 1 of my many buttons on the mouse, it would instantly go to movie information.
Perhaps I could have been a little nicer when providing feedback, but as I mentioned, I was very annoyed fumbling around for an hour in the skin only to realize that it wasn't the skin or my computer that was slow, it was the fact that it was just very clunky with the mouse.
I have my mouse's tilt wheel set to the left/right keys when in XBMC, so if i want to go left/right, i just tilt my scroll wheel left and right, and it does it to go back and forth in menus. However the one thing that I don't want to have to bind is the "ENTER" key, I suppose it is possible for me to use the left/right scroll wheel and get to where I want to, and then mimmick a "ENTER" input, but then the whole "Point and click" feature of a mouse is gone.
Selecting via hovering and then clicking to confirm a selection is the core feature of a mouse, and I dont want to replace that part via keyboard inputs from a mouse.
Anyways, it seems we're talking in circles. I apologize if I offended anyone, but I assure you that you would be just as annoyed if you wasted an hour for no reason.