Apollo One (2 Viewers)

[morpheus_xx]

I moved the stars into selection panel. The width is fixed, label uses the rest of space. If it gets longer, it will fade out (but not scroll)

@wizard123 do you want to have other style for stars? We could have other fill colors (or transparent for non-selected area and only stroke)

 

[wizard123]

@wizard123 do you want to have other style for stars? We could have other fill colors (or transparent for non-selected area and only stroke)

The stars should be white but only show the amount of stars the movie is rated at so if it's rated 6 stars that is how many stars are displayed.

@morpheus_xx Thumbs up for the speed you are working on this

 

[Hawkeye]

How was your idea on user interaction to get this screen?
We now have:

• Focus item: Poster + Details
• Click: Play / Play dialog (Play, Concurrent, Enqueue)
• Context (right click): Media Item actions (add all to playlist, set (un-)watched)

Outside the MediaItems list the "Context" opens the main menu. This is already a duplicated action on same key.

That's why I currently have no idea about when to show such dialog with additional info.

Why not having this open on click and a click in this opened screen plays the media?

 

[morpheus_xx]

The stars should be white but only show the amount of stars the movie is rated at so if it's rated 6 stars that is how many stars are displayed.

@morpheus_xx Thumbs up for the speed you are working on this

You know that this control is more flexible than in MP1? We can have 7.5 or 5.3 stars. Just to mention it

And the speed is possible because of the architecture

 

[wizard123]

How was your idea on user interaction to get this screen?
We now have:

• Focus item: Poster + Details
• Click: Play / Play dialog (Play, Concurrent, Enqueue)
• Context (right click): Media Item actions (add all to playlist, set (un-)watched)

Outside the MediaItems list the "Context" opens the main menu. This is already a duplicated action on same key.

That's why I currently have no idea about when to show such dialog with additional info.

Why not having this open on click and a click in this opened screen plays the media?

Because that means you need two clicks to play a movie instead of one, may not seem like a lot but most people will just want to hit play right away not caring for the extra info.

You know that this control is more flexible than in MP1? We can have 7.5 or 5.3 stars. Just to mention it

Sure i was just giving an example are you able to style the stars like in my mockup ? i assume they would need to be xaml instead of bitmap to avoid creating extra graphics ?

 

[pur_berger]

I moved the stars into selection panel. The width is fixed, label uses the rest of space. If it gets longer, it will fade out (but not scroll)
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@wizard123 do you want to have other style for stars? We could have other fill colors (or transparent for non-selected area and only stroke)

Only an idea

 

[morpheus_xx]

i assume they would need to be xaml instead of bitmap to avoid creating extra graphics ?

Yes, exactly. A xaml version of the star would be required. Could you also please create (bitmap) images for:

• Folder (in media browsing, poster format)
• Audio without cover
• Image without thumbnail

I also have a bit longer "wish list" for next parts. The TV part is one of the most important ones, so I'd like to continue there (after other media styles).

The unmodified screens currently looks like:


For TV Guide following things need to be considered:

• Buttons are multi-layered for different states. The button style should consider this. In Titanium I had simply overlayed different semi transparent rectangles.
  
  • Other
    
  • Currently running
  • Scheduled
  • Focused
• While I'd prefer to show the program details inside footer, they wouldn't be visible while watching TV (PlayerControls are visible there). So I think the long description needs to stay in main content area (center)?

 

[pur_berger]

I like the design of the OSD Panel - is it an option to do this for the epg too? Having more lines and compress teh timelines more? I agree emphatic that this long textboxes are hard to read - special when you have a big screen with smal vieweing distance.https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/emphatic.24365/

 

[ge2301]

@morpheus_xx ,
Not 100% related to Apollo. The logo manager for MP is already a great option. Could it be possible to allocate the logos manually by an Option Button ?

• The grey background is not my favourite
• Some logos are really hard to read

Benchmark could be the transparent logos available for media center epg. If the manual selection seems difficult, is it possible to scale the logos to completely fill the row and make them without background?

Edit: In WMC only the height of the logos is fixed, width is variable. Therefore all logos are looking well and are easy to read.

 

[wizard123]

i assume they would need to be xaml instead of bitmap to avoid creating extra graphics ?

Yes, exactly. A xaml version of the star would be required. Could you also please create (bitmap) images for:

• Folder (in media browsing, poster format)
• Audio without cover
• Image without thumbnail

I also have a bit longer "wish list" for next parts. The TV part is one of the most important ones, so I'd like to continue there (after other media styles).

The unmodified screens currently looks like:
View attachment 158886 View attachment 158885 View attachment 158884

For TV Guide following things need to be considered:

• Buttons are multi-layered for different states. The button style should consider this. In Titanium I had simply overlayed different semi transparent rectangles.
  • Other
    
  • Currently running
  • Scheduled
  • Focused
• While I'd prefer to show the program details inside footer, they wouldn't be visible while watching TV (PlayerControls are visible there). So I think the long description needs to stay in main content area (center)?

Do the player controls need to be visible if you are focused on something in the epg? I think they would be better hidden until you navigate to them ?