<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Eric Sharkey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@lisaneric.org" target="_blank">eric@lisaneric.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Jim Oltman <<a href="mailto:jim.oltman@gmail.com">jim.oltman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I didn't mean a cursor being controlled by a remote. That would be a HUGE<br>
> headache and a major step backwards in functionality.<br>
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</div>It works quite well if you have the right hardware.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I was thinking more<br>
> along the lines of the remote D-Pad controlling a "box" on the screen. You<br>
> hit up, the box moves up to the selection above it's current position. I<br>
> was thinking that the cursor would not be on the screen at all.<br>
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</div>Then I don't really see how (other than the eye candy) this is<br>
fundamentally different than what we already have today.<br>
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Eric</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It just looked to me that the entire organization of items on the screen was much better than what we had in 0.24. I could never read the entire Artist/Title of the track I was listening to as it never scrolled to show me the whole line. This was partially due to the layout of the MythMusic screen being in a column fashion. To go back to a different playlist, I'd have to hit the left arrow, and the on-screen selection bar would move to the left. I still couldn't see the entire name of the playlist I wanted (again, because the playlist name didn't scroll), and (if I recall correctly) there was still a partial list of the tracks on the right side of the screen. Even an option to have the name of the track move into another line would have been a huge improvement.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If these fields were sorted vertically, and the on-screen play/pause/rewind/etc keys were eliminated, then the list of available songs would be bigger, and you could see more of the artist/title of the music. If you were in the list of music, you could hit the back button to move the selection bar up to the "menu" options above. Back one more time gets you out of music all together. If you really wanted to have the play/pause/rewind/etc keys on screen, you could have them appear as large icons in the center of the screen (eye candy like in the video) when you pressed the corresponding key on the remote. So pause would stay on screen until you pressed play. Then the PLAY icon would fade out over a few hundred milliseconds. Same for rewind/FF/next/etc. If you wanted Shuffle/Repeat, then either have them be number keys (as it is now) or have them be in the MENU key on the remote.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Maybe I'm incorrect and this is more a theme issue? </div></div>