hi,
well... being more and more psychically involved in testing and improving MP let's try some suggestion...
Rationale:
I use TV program mainly for zapping and looking on the current and future TV program (1-2 day max). Therefore I would prefer TV program beeing the main control for My TV.
There is also some other information I would like to have in a summary view (news, weather, etc.)
Got the following idea from Sharepoint services, which we use extensively at work.
Concept:- Having the main My TV window as a portal for information about the current TV program and other configurable information would be very nice.
- Making the main TV control window a fixed set of let's say four or five panes, which are partially configurable, would be a first step for this (pls. have a look at the 16:9 sketch attached to this post)
- We could abstract this solution to the whole UI design of MP. Menues are no longer plugin oriented. Instead with the menues you may control a set of configurable windows which collects informations through different plugins and present them in the way the user would like to (naturally he has to configure them).
- There should be a standard design for an information window, for example four information panes and a button bar on the top, just to keep things simple for the basic UI design in MP.
- Installation could provide a standard set of windows which are oriented on the current MP UI design, in order to have a smooth migration for users who are comfortable with the current design.
I have no idea how far this proposal conflicts with the current UI architecture of MP. May be we could go into further discussion after I had a look at the development guidelines.
I hope my explanations gave the idea. Feel free to ask questions if you need more clarifying
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Regards
Arno