2014-01-15, 06:06
Actually jurialmunkey, I love the current menu behaviour. Intuitively, from the center menu bar pushing Up once opens all visual widget components (In Progress, Newly Added, Spotlight, etc.) I have the Favourites widget configured to pop-up the Weather panel "Up", Settings widget to pop-up the System Info panel also "Up". I think its' uniquely attractive and simplistic in its' presentation.
Keeping in mind that the skin is a remote-focused menu system where power options are presented/activated with a single push button on the remote, you really don't need a lot of real estate for it. The opportunity I think, is to reorganize the bottom (Down) menu. Remove the 4 Shutdown options and attach them to the Power Icon Widget. Hitting the Enter or Down keys could open a Shutdown Menu in its' own menu panel. Remove the Favourites widget from that menu as well, seems redundant anyways with the better-positioned/functional Icon Widget. That would open up the current bottom widget menu (5 open widget spots now) to include quick access to more Library related functions for both Video and Music. Essentially better exposing them outside of the Settings Widget. Skin/Appearance/System settings should stay with the Settings Widget. Easy-Peasey! My two cents worth anyway, lol.
Since we're on menu items as a topic, perhaps you could add links on the Library and Files Context Menu's to enable switching between modes. As it is, for me it's not user friendly having to back all the way out of the menu system to get to either mode from the main menu.
Lastly, for Users with Library Editor enabled, you could reduce a little side menu clutter by eliminating the "Edit Title" option since the "Edit Movie" option includes that function anyway.
Peace.
Keeping in mind that the skin is a remote-focused menu system where power options are presented/activated with a single push button on the remote, you really don't need a lot of real estate for it. The opportunity I think, is to reorganize the bottom (Down) menu. Remove the 4 Shutdown options and attach them to the Power Icon Widget. Hitting the Enter or Down keys could open a Shutdown Menu in its' own menu panel. Remove the Favourites widget from that menu as well, seems redundant anyways with the better-positioned/functional Icon Widget. That would open up the current bottom widget menu (5 open widget spots now) to include quick access to more Library related functions for both Video and Music. Essentially better exposing them outside of the Settings Widget. Skin/Appearance/System settings should stay with the Settings Widget. Easy-Peasey! My two cents worth anyway, lol.
Since we're on menu items as a topic, perhaps you could add links on the Library and Files Context Menu's to enable switching between modes. As it is, for me it's not user friendly having to back all the way out of the menu system to get to either mode from the main menu.
Lastly, for Users with Library Editor enabled, you could reduce a little side menu clutter by eliminating the "Edit Title" option since the "Edit Movie" option includes that function anyway.
Peace.