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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: NoCodeUK on April 15, 2003, 03:24:45 pm
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New Hairstyle is much better. Almost perfect... but...
Here are a few suggestions to improve it even more. I am not putting all of these forward for 9.0. Simply suggestions for the future of HS as we know it :)
- The ability to select items in the right hand pane now is fantastic. However if pics are selected would it be possible to switch to full screen to show the slideshow rather than using the PIP? This would be good for Videos too. The PIP could then still be utilised as a PIP eg to show TV while a slideshow is playing full screen...
- When Album grouping is set to on there are some wierd sortings going on. Various Artist albums appear under the name of the 1st artist. And albums are always sorted by Title. Is there anyway the sort order could be defined? Personally I prefer year. This area is defo one where MCs view schemes score over myHTPC
- The ability to change the initial menu. I don't have a tv tuner card yet... it would be nice not to see tv as an option. This is where my HTPC does win through in thats initial menu looks a lot cleaner - my music, my pictures, my videos. Clean and simple. Even setup could be removed from the main menu.
- Any chance of the player controls being added permanently onscreen in the same ways as those new navigation buttons. And can those navigation buttons be skinned? They don't look as nice as the rest of the new skin. Some nice XP style rounded arrow buttons would be nice.
- Some way to multi select files to add to either playing now or a playlist using the icons view
- The full screen bars seem to appear occasionally
- This is definitely not a 9.0 request but a way to dynamically alter things from within hairstyle eg PIP size/location, menu position etc. This can be done currently with myHTPC's XML file although I am not sure if it can be done dynamically.
And thats all for now :D
Adam
PS These are just my suggestions. I am in no way knocking what you have already done. HS is starting to look really sweet and could definitely be killer!!
Keep up the great work!
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I too think the new hairstyle is great. Fantastic, actually! I love the look and the cover in the bottom right corner. But can it be modified to show playing now info (time, track and so on) in the playing now part of it? That would be really cool! I sort of need my counter going... ;D
Oh yes, and direct access buttons to Media Library and Playing now wouldn't hurt either... Or maybe just make "Ctrl+2" jump to Playing now in Hairstyle as well?
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The buttons for navigation? Any chance they could be made 32x32? I have designed some nice buttons but when they are shrunk down to 16x16 they look awful!!
Adam
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So far, it'd seem that PIP is a misnomer. It's not a picture inside another picture (unless you consider Hairstyle a "picture"), but rather a "preview pane" (or view pane, if you're done navigating) that is essential to using the Hairstyle as a navigation tool.
I wouldn't think you could easily get rid of a "preview" function and still use Hairstyle to its fullest.
Is there any plans to make the preview/view pane actually PIP? I mean, like watching the Playing Now in the view pane, with a small PIP preview pane to continue navigation or whatever?
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