Calling all users: Post your GUI inconsistencies (7 Viewers)
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Apologies, I'm b/n upgrades to my HTPC, so some of this is from memory.
I'm using 0.2.2.0, with BlueTwo wide, with one of the recent SVN (to be confirmed).
I've set up the use of 64x64 pixel channel logos and they're fine in the EPG.
However, when you're viewing the actual channel EPG (where you get the times listed vertically, with the corresponding programmes next to it) the channel logo at the top is cropped/squished.
edit: Ooops.. need to confirm whether this is still present in the 4:3 BlueTwo.
I'm using 0.2.2.0, with BlueTwo wide, with one of the recent SVN (to be confirmed).
I've set up the use of 64x64 pixel channel logos and they're fine in the EPG.
However, when you're viewing the actual channel EPG (where you get the times listed vertically, with the corresponding programmes next to it) the channel logo at the top is cropped/squished.
edit: Ooops.. need to confirm whether this is still present in the 4:3 BlueTwo.
With today's SVN (09/04/2007), and previous versions with the rotating home screen:
Pressing right (or left) twice in quick succession causes some odd graphics. The behaviour is slightly different with different skins: On Blue2 (or whatever the default skin is called), it seems to cause two animations to play at once, on top of one another, of each icon moving both from position 1 to position 2, but simultaneously from position 2 to position 3. After the animations finish, the icons sit in the right position. With the SpinSafe Revolve Skin, the icons simply jump from one position to their penultimate one, before gliding gracefully for the remainder of their journey.
I would expect the icons to accelerate to a set top moving speed when you repeatedly press (or hold down) a left/right key, until you release it.
Furthermore, if the mouse cursor is brought over the rotating home screen, the icons disappear completely, replaced with two giant triangles, "<>", in the middle of the screen.
Also, if I disable say, pictures, the icon for it is shown in the home screen anyway. Selecting it does nothing, so it seems unnecessary (and confusing) for it to be there.
If I'm watching TV, or a video, and I go to the Music Now Playing screen, I get a large black box on the right hand side of the screen which stays on top of everything, even full screen video.
Frequently the interface appears to hang, particularly when going to the root menu of shares, scheduling or cancelling recordings, navigating through the TV guide and reaching an item with a recording, et c. Until these problems can be optimised, these should have waiting symbols displayed, and the remainder of the interface needs to remain active during this time until the information is available.
On the note of searching for recordings, I don't understand the point of having a separate on screen keyboard for typing in passwords for shares and for searching for recordings. The numeric keyboard is a great idea, but surely they can be integrated together, for consistency's sake. Also, if I type in (via keyboard or numerically on remote control) certain letters, particularly "a" and "l", they appear twice even though I have typed them once. So if I'm searching for "Falklands" and I type this in, what MediaPortal thinks I have typed is "Faallkllaands". I have to press backspace after these double letters to resolve the issue. If I press R to record what I'm watching in the background, MediaPortal first asks me "Do you want to record what you're watching", then after I respond, inserts a letter R into the search box.
Also, once I've coaxed this into working, I find that if I select something on this list of Falklands-related programming to record, once I go back, my search is gone! I have to repeat the process if I want to record several Falklands-related programmes.
Pressing right (or left) twice in quick succession causes some odd graphics. The behaviour is slightly different with different skins: On Blue2 (or whatever the default skin is called), it seems to cause two animations to play at once, on top of one another, of each icon moving both from position 1 to position 2, but simultaneously from position 2 to position 3. After the animations finish, the icons sit in the right position. With the SpinSafe Revolve Skin, the icons simply jump from one position to their penultimate one, before gliding gracefully for the remainder of their journey.
I would expect the icons to accelerate to a set top moving speed when you repeatedly press (or hold down) a left/right key, until you release it.
Furthermore, if the mouse cursor is brought over the rotating home screen, the icons disappear completely, replaced with two giant triangles, "<>", in the middle of the screen.
Also, if I disable say, pictures, the icon for it is shown in the home screen anyway. Selecting it does nothing, so it seems unnecessary (and confusing) for it to be there.
If I'm watching TV, or a video, and I go to the Music Now Playing screen, I get a large black box on the right hand side of the screen which stays on top of everything, even full screen video.
Frequently the interface appears to hang, particularly when going to the root menu of shares, scheduling or cancelling recordings, navigating through the TV guide and reaching an item with a recording, et c. Until these problems can be optimised, these should have waiting symbols displayed, and the remainder of the interface needs to remain active during this time until the information is available.
On the note of searching for recordings, I don't understand the point of having a separate on screen keyboard for typing in passwords for shares and for searching for recordings. The numeric keyboard is a great idea, but surely they can be integrated together, for consistency's sake. Also, if I type in (via keyboard or numerically on remote control) certain letters, particularly "a" and "l", they appear twice even though I have typed them once. So if I'm searching for "Falklands" and I type this in, what MediaPortal thinks I have typed is "Faallkllaands". I have to press backspace after these double letters to resolve the issue. If I press R to record what I'm watching in the background, MediaPortal first asks me "Do you want to record what you're watching", then after I respond, inserts a letter R into the search box.
Also, once I've coaxed this into working, I find that if I select something on this list of Falklands-related programming to record, once I go back, my search is gone! I have to repeat the process if I want to record several Falklands-related programmes.
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This may not be a Blue Two problem, I experience this with the stable release and Project Mayhem 3 1.6 on my main HTPC.
Also with a two week old SVN and Spinsafe Revolve(newest) on this comp. Same behaviour exhibited.
