2010-12-26, 19:17
Sorry for the typos in the previous post...
On a side note... One thing in confluence that I really like other than the vertical menu (which is one of the biggest reasons that I keep returning to it) is the small strip of three buttons in the lower left corner for favorites, shutdown, and play disc.
BTW none of them is really used often, and can be mapped to buttons on the remote, but even buttons on the remote are at a premium.
Having them in the menu just increases the number of menu items that it practically becomes difficult to find things. Especially if one wants to have extra customizable menus.
So some suggestions... just what i think i might like if they were there...
1. Obviously the option of a vertical menu like confluence... maybe I will be told to go elsewhere for suggesting this...
2. If not a small strip of buttons like confluence for things like shutdown, favorites, play disc etc, things for which especially a small icon suffices easily to say what its purpose is...
3. I think a human brain has been over the years trained to read stuff scrolling smoothly either vertically or horizontally. But the menu bar moves not smoothly but jerkily, cause it immediately moves to the next item. This makes it difficult to read and search for the menu entry when things scroll horizontally more so than vertically.
Maybe I got used to confluence and it will take a while to do so for a horizontal menu.
3.1 A horizontal menu like shade with the icons so that more menu entries are visible simultaneously on the screen.
3.2 Instead of the whole menubar moving left/right and the higlighted item in the center, move the the highlight left/right and scroll the menu only when you reach the left/right edge.
4. I think currently there is only one view "Wide" for TV shows which can use "Banners". But that really covers the whole screen and hides the fanart, maybe it can be altered a little bit... ideally a "low list" view which could use banners.
5. Play video in background or window when one returns to the gui... currently I can only hear the audio but I see fanart of the items in the gui, rather than the video.
6. The customized menu item does not let me have sub menus as favorites if the menu item and vice versa. Can the option to have them mixed be possible?
7. I have the sub folder "Hulu Movies" & "Hulu TV Shows" from the Hulu addon as favorites. I can see them when i select them from the favurites menu, but if I add them as sub menu items to the home screen, I get an error to the effect "Library empty. Please populate from the home screen"
Maybe I missed some settings, and all/some of what I said is already possible.
Thanks alot for all your effort.
On a side note... One thing in confluence that I really like other than the vertical menu (which is one of the biggest reasons that I keep returning to it) is the small strip of three buttons in the lower left corner for favorites, shutdown, and play disc.
BTW none of them is really used often, and can be mapped to buttons on the remote, but even buttons on the remote are at a premium.
Having them in the menu just increases the number of menu items that it practically becomes difficult to find things. Especially if one wants to have extra customizable menus.
So some suggestions... just what i think i might like if they were there...
1. Obviously the option of a vertical menu like confluence... maybe I will be told to go elsewhere for suggesting this...
2. If not a small strip of buttons like confluence for things like shutdown, favorites, play disc etc, things for which especially a small icon suffices easily to say what its purpose is...
3. I think a human brain has been over the years trained to read stuff scrolling smoothly either vertically or horizontally. But the menu bar moves not smoothly but jerkily, cause it immediately moves to the next item. This makes it difficult to read and search for the menu entry when things scroll horizontally more so than vertically.
Maybe I got used to confluence and it will take a while to do so for a horizontal menu.
3.1 A horizontal menu like shade with the icons so that more menu entries are visible simultaneously on the screen.
3.2 Instead of the whole menubar moving left/right and the higlighted item in the center, move the the highlight left/right and scroll the menu only when you reach the left/right edge.
4. I think currently there is only one view "Wide" for TV shows which can use "Banners". But that really covers the whole screen and hides the fanart, maybe it can be altered a little bit... ideally a "low list" view which could use banners.
5. Play video in background or window when one returns to the gui... currently I can only hear the audio but I see fanart of the items in the gui, rather than the video.
6. The customized menu item does not let me have sub menus as favorites if the menu item and vice versa. Can the option to have them mixed be possible?
7. I have the sub folder "Hulu Movies" & "Hulu TV Shows" from the Hulu addon as favorites. I can see them when i select them from the favurites menu, but if I add them as sub menu items to the home screen, I get an error to the effect "Library empty. Please populate from the home screen"
Maybe I missed some settings, and all/some of what I said is already possible.
Thanks alot for all your effort.