[villeneuve]

I watched the long walktrough Nathan has uploaded to YouTube and overall I'm impressed and very much like Estuary so far! Big thanks to all contributors!
Here is what came to my mind:

First I agree with this quote from Forage:

I feel that the video player OSD needs some additional love.

1. You now have to go to "complex" menu's to see which audio stream is used and which subtitle track. In both cases it's the language that's most important to know because there are often multiple streams without a consistent default. It would be good to see this directly in the OSD.
   
2. Changing those same stream takes more steps by navigating through multiple dialogs now while it's something people would regularly use
   
3. The icons on the lower right give you a "tooltip/description" all the way at the left. This isn't a really efficient way to navigate ;-)
   
4. At least with one subtitle present, pressing the subtitle button switches it on an off. This isn't very obvious without at least some additional persistent visual clue that something is switched on/off.
   

Just keeping the OSD menu clean means hiding functions from the end user and that doesn't really makes it easier for the user to achieve his objectives. That to me looks much like the Gnome 3 way, which hides so much stuff that a lot of people never find certain features making them think certain features are just not available.

- The TV EPG-view seen here let's of lot of screenspace unused, so my proposal is to use the full width of the screen or 98% of it and show 10 channels at once or make the available space for the info part bigger.

- Rename "Music" to "Audio", because a lot of people also have radio recordings, podcasts, audio books etc.

- Maybe rename "Videos" to "other Videos"

- I couldn't try Estuary myself yet, but please make sure that when a video is paused the OSD to indicate the paused state is as small as possible and placed right into one of the screen's corners, because often I pause a video to look a details and don't want an OSD element to block the view

- I always wondered why XBMC/Kodi never adopted the control scheme known from many settop boxes, TVs and DVB-software like VDR which marks certain OSD-elements with the colors red, green, yellow and blue which can be triggered by pressing the according color on the remote. It's a great way to hugely accelerate navigating menus and triggering actions and it can be used really flexible. Most of the good remotes available have those color buttons and most gamecontrollers / gamepads also. So I see the introduction of a new default Kodi skin as the perfect moment to add that control scheme. It could also be made a on/off switchable option in the skins' setting, as some people may not like the look with the added colored indicators.

I'd be really interested to hear what you people think about my last point.