[randallspicher]

What does your fork do? / solve?

I've put in a number of fixes for various things (such as the artist-slideshow which had some changes to it), added info such as episode and subtitle, and better images to the PVR screens, added some alternate full-view music screens,  modified the weather screens to handle some of the more verbose data that the NOAA weather plugin provides (such as a verbose daily forecast, and weather alerts, and the descriptive split-day icons), tweaked some other views to add more data such as icons for quadraphonic/multi-channel music, added "currently playing" data to the home screens, added in a feature to display actor-role images (like thetvdb has) rather than just the same actor image everywhere, added the ability to display custom icons for sources/genes/tags (for when you use smart playlists that you group with them).  Added in a touch-screen mode to add features like a "back/cancel" icons and menu options on a lot of screens and menus so it is easier to use on devices which lack a hardware "back" button.   In general, I like to display a lot of info about the media, so added more info or icons to a lot of the views.  The initial impetus was to display all the extra info provided by NOAA (weather.gov) that is not available elsewhere, but once you start changing things, it's hard to stop whenever you get the thought "hey it would be cool if..."