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space2001

So now that I have used it for a while, I have some suggestions that hopefully will be taken in to consideration.

 

First off it takes to many moves and clicks to get to what I would like. Don't get me wrong I love all the extra info that comes up when you select a movie, But in reality I am rarely using that info. I just want to click on the poster and it starts playing the movie. Even if I click on the poster and a little menu came up that said RESUME PLAY, PLAY FROM BEGINING, MORE INFO.

 

Right now as is it you have to click on the poster then hit the down arrow to go to play or resume play. I would say from UI this is not friendly.

 

Another thing would be to allow us to add one more row of movies.  With some of us our collection is really big and it would be good to be able to move through it faster.  I know a page up page down would help.

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Koleckai Silvestri

You can change to a poster wall style view by selecting the view icon at the top. This is the one that looks like a grid of four squares, if I recall correctly.

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space2001

You can change to a poster wall style view by selecting the view icon at the top. This is the one that looks like a grid of four squares, if I recall correctly.

yes I know that, but it only shows 2 rows. I would like to be able to cusomize this.

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yes I know that, but it only shows 2 rows. I would like to be able to cusomize this.

I don't use poster wall view, so I'm not sure if it works or not; but can you zoom in/out on the view like in MBC? this allows you to show as little/many rows as you'd like.

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I don't use poster wall view, so I'm not sure if it works or not; but can you zoom in/out on the view like in MBC? this allows you to show as little/many rows as you'd like.

 

No, you cannot change the size of the posters in MBT.

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I agree that it would be more efficient, from a UI standpoint, if the focus was on Play in the detail screen, instead of Overview (where you already are).

 

I don't use the Poster view, but I would guess that being able to resize the posters (allowing more or less rows/columns) will come eventually. :)

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Beardyname

The only thing that i would change atm is so that focus by default is not on overview but on seasons :)

 

Either that or another tab for unwatched or latest for that particular series.

 

hmm maybe i should go make a new feature request :D

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Beardyname

@@Luke so do i kinda, but since i wanted mb3 now i kinda switched to windows :P

 

I do have a spare machine now so when school clears up (exam time done on Thursday) I will probably mess around with it!

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space2001

is there any references yet on how to create your own skin for MBT?  or be able to modfy the current one. 

 

I am a UI designer with a little bit of programing experience.  That is why I was starting to make suggestions.

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Koleckai Silvestri

Wiki and documentation is here: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/MediaBrowser.Theater/wiki

 

Doesn't seem fully fleshed out but it talks about plugins and custom pages. Seems a new theme will be a combination of those two things. Once that gets fleshed out and we get to a beta status, then people will probably start working on it. As there are no current milestones for the product and a lot of work is going on for the server to support more stuff in the clients, it may be a while before it is to that state.

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The only thing that i would change atm is so that focus by default is not on overview but on seasons :)

 

Either that or another tab for unwatched or latest for that particular series.

 

hmm maybe i should go make a new feature request :D

 

we're missing your contributions to the linux server

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I agree with much of what you've said. Though I think how it should work if you over over something and click play (not the enter key) it should 1) resume from where you left off, 2) play from the beginning, 3) if a series resume/play the current/next episode. So in this way you have a shortcut to start playing immediately and the play button just makes sense for this.

 

You're not typically using a mouse so hover over options not the best GUI.

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space2001

I don't use a mouse, I use a harmony remote.

 

When you get to any movie and you click ok(harmony) a little pop-up could come up exactly like you are saying.

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Beardyname

Anything that includes hover or popups etc are just annoying, and should only be used for things that you don't do regularly.

 

But i think this will sort itself out as the development continues :)

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jedtrek

Bump.  Dead thread.  Sorry.  

 

I totally agree!  I have over 2K movies currently in my HTPC collection.  Scrolling through those 2 at a time with the "limited" new MBT is so slow and annoying as f.  I currently have MBT disabled and am using the old MBC to handle my media for the simple fact that I can re-size the posters on the poster wall to cruise through the media library much faster.  PLEASE FIX THIS IN "MBT"!!!!!

 

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