1. An option to have the "Views" menu appear as a submenu tree
Audio->
Images->
Video -> Movies -> Comedy
-> Action -> Martial Arts
2. ....and/or the "Views" pop-up show the views in a tree (hierarchical) form
-- I have a lot of views, but dont really want to see the classical ones when I'm listening to rock, I'd like to select rock, and see all the views defined under rock as seen in the StdView hierarchy
3. Related to the above (and probably necessary to make it functional), the option for additional menu, on the top, side or where ever (eg for views, player controls, dsp, or anything else that i cant think of atm) ... of course this makes the usage of the left/right arrow keys change....
I personally find that the left menu feels a bit too cluttered, and would be best split off
4. More Customisation of the [Location] tag (length - from left, from right).. this can get very long on my system, with a relatively low res screen, so the shrinking text becomes unreadable
5. More Theater View Tags [Date] [Temperature] [something else]
6. Disk browsing (NOT library based), If a friend brings over some photos on a hard disk, or a movie etc, I want to be able to browse to the file, without importing them.
7. Pop-out side menu - only because other people have mentioned it
8. Animated Icons (or can the video background feature be used for non-background areas? -- I haven't tried yet)
9. A nice (semi)transparent OSD - customisable of course.
-- I like a very simple vis for music, but I'd like the option top bring up an OSD displaying the information I want to see, esp if it's possible to do "if" statements for genre specific info
-- Also, a nice graphical indicator for progress, volume etc would be nice
(edit -addition)
10. Add non-default 'root' views schemes. The limitation of Audio Images Video just doesn't work nicely for me. I can fudge it the way it is, but it's not how I'd like it.
11. Hierarchical custom Theater View items. It's nice we can add our own, but I'd prefer to be able to group them via functional similarities... CD/DVD tasks, Shutdown/Restart options etc...
(another edit)
12. Visual indicators (other than the Page Up / Page Down option) of more items off the screen for the menus. I dont want the page up/down button because i dont really see the point of them, but an indication that there is more above or below would be nice. Either wide arrows, or semi-transparent top or bottom item would be nice
13. Related to above, possibly an alternative, is alternate methods for menu display. A 'wrapped' or cyclic approach, a'la the competetion's UI would be nice, or better would be a perspective based horizontal rotating circle. (think of a donut viewed from 45 degrees above, with the text written on the side. There are plenty of things that can be done here to really funk (with an N) up MC's interface.
14. Some cosmetic effects for skinning. ie, slight mirroring of menu items, slight blurring of non selected items, increasing the size of selected menu items.... etc etc etc...
I had a list somewhere with more that I was building up, but cant find it, I'm sure I'll be adding more.
Cheers,
C.