2010-07-05, 21:25
Hey guys,
For those of you that haven't used Boxee much, try it out. I think there are a lot of things it does exceptionally well in terms of user experience (Wife Acceptance Factor too ). The more I use Boxee, the more I feel that XBMC's info menu seems like it's tacked on to the UI, rather than a core part of it.
I'd really like it if I could have a very minimal view (box cover and movie title) in my main Library view, then clicking Enter would pop-up the info menu (fanart, plot, rating, codec info, etc.) with the default selection being "play," so that a double-click would play the movie if I wanted to quickly skip past the info screen like I do in Boxee now. Ideally, this behavior could be toggled in Settings.
How (im)possible would it be to add such a feature? Would it be at the skin level or at the level of the XBMC code itself?
Thanks for thoughts/feedback!
NS
Current behavior (Boxee/XBMC)
Proposed behavior
Across the bottom would have: Play Trailer Cast Refresh Fanart Thumbnail
For those of you that haven't used Boxee much, try it out. I think there are a lot of things it does exceptionally well in terms of user experience (Wife Acceptance Factor too ). The more I use Boxee, the more I feel that XBMC's info menu seems like it's tacked on to the UI, rather than a core part of it.
I'd really like it if I could have a very minimal view (box cover and movie title) in my main Library view, then clicking Enter would pop-up the info menu (fanart, plot, rating, codec info, etc.) with the default selection being "play," so that a double-click would play the movie if I wanted to quickly skip past the info screen like I do in Boxee now. Ideally, this behavior could be toggled in Settings.
How (im)possible would it be to add such a feature? Would it be at the skin level or at the level of the XBMC code itself?
Thanks for thoughts/feedback!
NS
Current behavior (Boxee/XBMC)
Proposed behavior
Across the bottom would have: Play Trailer Cast Refresh Fanart Thumbnail