Dan Sully Wrote: > Personally, I despise the "alpha page bar", and would love to get rid of > it. > I'm sure Dean doesn't agree. However, I'd like to start a discussion > on > alternatives. Obviously the numeric pagebar is available, but not > extremely > useful. Other thoughts? It certainly seems like it causes a lot of grief for the developers!
Unless all album covers can appear on a single page, you need some way to accurately seek to your artwork. Playing the "click the Next button until you find what you seek" game is really painful. Being able to skip directly to the area of choice is pretty important in my mind. With Adrian's work on artwork sort underway, being able to seek seems even more useful. I'd love to see the preference for sort order moved to the top of the artwork page (and others too), so that a click of the mouse just re-sorts. I've been using a app on Windows called OrangeCD to catalog my rips, CDs, and DVDs. It presents all artwork on a single page, and lazy-fills as necessary upon scrolling. Its pretty darned responsive, but then its not browser based and doesn't suffer the ill-affects of some browsers with large pages and objects. OrangeCD handles some things really nicely (but I can't say much about the Author's responsiveness). I think of it often when I think of how Slimserver could evolve. If you care to see how it looks, I can post a screenshot. Other than that, I don't have any other ideas to replace the index. -- MrC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20199 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
