2011-12-29, 16:41
Ronie, I understand where you're coming from but I think there's a lot more to benefit from. A tighter integration would probably allow much easier skinning and flexibility. The watchlist as an add-on is s great piece of work, but having to code a list item for every possibly populated list item is kind of a PITA.
Also for instance, I think it's a shame that I cannot press "I" to bring up the information screen for movies in the watchlist, or use the context menu. Things that I, if I weren't a skinner, would expect to be possible/happen.
Correct me if I'm wrong but if something like an information screen would be implemented in the add-on this would mean it would not be able to use XBMC's dialog, but it would have to cloned/recreated as a separate dialog.
I think functionally it's very related to XBMC's core functions, I think it would be great to have it as a node in XBMC's library like recently added has been for a long time (even before the script).
I have been trying out Plex now that it's available for PC's and while I think overall XBMC is the better package the library is definitely ahead of XBMC in certain aspects. It has the watchlist functionality right up there in the library nodes which I think provides great benefits. For instance it also allows the ondeck functionality to be used on "files" content. Overall, just a better integrated and streamlined feature set.
Also for instance, I think it's a shame that I cannot press "I" to bring up the information screen for movies in the watchlist, or use the context menu. Things that I, if I weren't a skinner, would expect to be possible/happen.
Correct me if I'm wrong but if something like an information screen would be implemented in the add-on this would mean it would not be able to use XBMC's dialog, but it would have to cloned/recreated as a separate dialog.
I think functionally it's very related to XBMC's core functions, I think it would be great to have it as a node in XBMC's library like recently added has been for a long time (even before the script).
I have been trying out Plex now that it's available for PC's and while I think overall XBMC is the better package the library is definitely ahead of XBMC in certain aspects. It has the watchlist functionality right up there in the library nodes which I think provides great benefits. For instance it also allows the ondeck functionality to be used on "files" content. Overall, just a better integrated and streamlined feature set.