JJZolx wrote: > Yes, I can also see Preferences now. > > A couple of suggestions for the layout and 'Info': Seems that when the > Info area is minimized/hidden, you could display only the thin bar with > the control, and not the thicker 'Info' bar. Maybe better yet, display > only a tab-like control in the bottom center, further minimizing the > screen real estate this uses when minimized. > Good point, will be in the next version. > > Instead of the pop-up info when a new track begins playing, why not use > the Info area? > I'm not aware of this pop-up - which one do you mean?
> > Some things about Currently Playing: > - On the Song tab, Artist is never filled in, but I get a lot of stuff > in Contributors. > That depends on how you tag your tracks (Artist vs. Album Artist). For me, it's exactly the reverse. I'll probably simply hide the field if it's empty. > > - On the Song tab, the album cover treatment is odd. It's chopped off > vertically to fit the space. I would think you'd want to scale it to > show the whole cover, then display the full-sized cover on mouseover. > Alternatively, you could add a scroll bar to the area where the cover is > displayed. > It scales horizontally, and then to aspect ratio. I'll have a look if I can find out how much space there is vertically, and then take the min. > > - On the Artist/Album tab you need to show the artist name for the > albums. When playing a song by two different artists, it lists albums > from both of the artists on this tab, but doesn't show who the albums > are by. > Actually, I removed the artist's name on purpose to save space (I don't use multiple artists) - I'l probably have to re-think this > > There have been some nice changes, but there's still a lot that can be > improved. > Certainly - you are welcome to contribute, it's open source after all. > > More could be done with cookies, saving things like the user's Album > sort order. > Not sure why cookies should be used for that - preferences are currently saved on the server, and I don't see a good reason to change that > > As it stands now, because of how long it takes to load, how long it > takes Albums to fully populate, and because no state is saved, for the > UI to be useful it has to be kept continuously open in a browser. It's > not something you'd launch to skip a track or to play an album you have > in mind. Using the existing web UI is far more convenient for that. As I noted before: the way the GUI works it simply needs a certain level of performance from the server, or the user experience will be sub optimal. This requirement is not going to change significantly in the future. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roland0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56808 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98186 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
