From: Maurus Cuelenaere <mcuelenaere_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 12:14:25 +0200

Jonathan Gordon schreef:
> Getting this written down so I dont forget and figure I may as well
> try and get some comments at the same time.
>
> I just came to the amazing conclusion that the set time and date
> screen is utterly unusable without the remote on a touchscreen, and
> 80% of the screen is wasted.
I think I altered that behaviour so it changed to grid mode when
entering and reverted back to the original mode when leaving the screen?
> So I remembered about the idea of putting
> "buttons" on the screen, kind of like how the WPS can do it now, so I
> wanted to know how far we should go with this...
>
> My first idea was to pretty much copy the current buttonbar stuff and
> only use text for the buttons, but that kind of sucks so I'm pretty
> sure it will end up using the icon system (with an updated version of
> FS#8133 to handle it).
>
> MY question is how customizable do we want to make this? The choices
> are pretty much:
> 1) have the caller specify the viewport to draw into and the buttons
> to display, they will then get drawn to automatically fit, so it could
> be a single row or column, or a grid
> 2) have the caller specify the viewport and the pixel positions to put
> each button...
>
> I think the first option is actually going to be better because it
> mean less work to add this to a screen, and I think the only time when
> real placement would be needed is when we want to have 4 directions
> (like the time/date screen), but then that can be made to work in a
> single row anyway....
>
> Does anyone think any of this would be useful/usable on
> non-touchscreen targets? (I'm thinking *maybe* in some plugins, but
> probably not.)
>
> (afterthought)
>
> There is one more option for customization... I think that themers
> will have much more "fun" with touchscreen targets when they are
> supported, I wonder if we should right now just make this entirely
> themeable from a text file or something. Each screen would have its
> own section and each would only allow a subset of buttons, but the
> user could choose exactly where to display which button? (this would
> probably be seperate from the WPS layout options)
> something like:
>
> [generic list]
> list: x,y,w,h
>
> [filebrowser]
> list: x,y,w,h
> context button: x,y,w,h,icon
> other button: ...
>
> etc...
> Then it would be dead simple to integrate into existing screens.
>
> Thoughts? Comments?
>
> Jonathan
>
I like the last idea where themers can choose where to place buttons etc.
Are you thinking of assigning 'actions' to specific buttons here or
specifying a fixed amount of buttons per screen and leave it to the
themer to state the coordinates etc. for each button?

I suppose this should be a merge with FS#8799 then?

Regards,
Maurus Cuelenaere
Received on 2009-05-24