kine
August 4th, 2008, 03:13 PM
I have some feature requests/suggestions. There's a bunch of them, so i thought i should stick them in one thread:
1. Radio buttons in the default interface are confusing. The solid white circle could be taken both as being empty and as being filled. I would suggest something more obvious, like making the unfilled radio button more dim, or making the check mark more obvious (like, a literal check-mark symbol maybe).
2. It would be nice if there was an auto-log-in option. I don't share my computer with anyone else, so clicking my user name every single time i bring up boxee is kind of redundant.
3. Unicode support would be neat. The names of my hard drives are rendered as boxboxboxboxboxbox and boxboxbox, which isn't very informative. I know that the language issue is a known one, so maybe this is already in the works.
4. The 'Settings' buttons in the Pictures and Video sections don't do anything when clicked. If they have no function, they should be disabled.
5. In the same vein as # 2, it would be nice if boxee auto-opened sources when there is only one. For example, if your only Pictures source is 'Local Pictures', boxee should automatically take you to Local Pictures when you click on the Pictures button in the main menu. You shouldn't have to pick Pictures and then Local Pictures.
6. The Escape button doesn't work consistently. It appears that it's supposed to have the same function as the Menu button on the Apple Remote (which is basically 'go back' in most cases), and it does sometimes, but not always. For example, pressing Escape when navigating through your sources often takes you back to the main menu rather than going up one folder level as with the Menu button.
7. Volume control is very poor. In VLC if i want to watch videos at a high volume, i can put the system volume at about 50% and use VLC's volume control to do the rest. If i want to achieve the same volume in boxee, i have to turn both the boxee volume and the system volume to the absolute MAX. Even then it's still not as loud as VLC. It's clear that the system could go much much louder if boxee would only allow it.
8. The appropriate filters should be auto-selected when viewing sources. For example, when viewing Music, the 'Audio Files' filter should be enabled by default. Unless i explicitly ask for it, i should not see JPEGs, NFOs, and SFVs when i'm browsing my music. These filters should be persistent across sessions. (See here (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?p=559#post559) and here (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=123).)
9. boxee should yield control over the Apple Remote to other applications. (See here (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=176) and here (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=63).)
10. There's no ability to edit the paths of sources once they're created. If you want to change your 'Local Movies' source from /Users/kine/Movies to /Users/kine/Movies2, you have to delete the first source and make a whole new one with the corrected path. I don't see why boxee couldn't allow you to modify the path directly.
1. Radio buttons in the default interface are confusing. The solid white circle could be taken both as being empty and as being filled. I would suggest something more obvious, like making the unfilled radio button more dim, or making the check mark more obvious (like, a literal check-mark symbol maybe).
2. It would be nice if there was an auto-log-in option. I don't share my computer with anyone else, so clicking my user name every single time i bring up boxee is kind of redundant.
3. Unicode support would be neat. The names of my hard drives are rendered as boxboxboxboxboxbox and boxboxbox, which isn't very informative. I know that the language issue is a known one, so maybe this is already in the works.
4. The 'Settings' buttons in the Pictures and Video sections don't do anything when clicked. If they have no function, they should be disabled.
5. In the same vein as # 2, it would be nice if boxee auto-opened sources when there is only one. For example, if your only Pictures source is 'Local Pictures', boxee should automatically take you to Local Pictures when you click on the Pictures button in the main menu. You shouldn't have to pick Pictures and then Local Pictures.
6. The Escape button doesn't work consistently. It appears that it's supposed to have the same function as the Menu button on the Apple Remote (which is basically 'go back' in most cases), and it does sometimes, but not always. For example, pressing Escape when navigating through your sources often takes you back to the main menu rather than going up one folder level as with the Menu button.
7. Volume control is very poor. In VLC if i want to watch videos at a high volume, i can put the system volume at about 50% and use VLC's volume control to do the rest. If i want to achieve the same volume in boxee, i have to turn both the boxee volume and the system volume to the absolute MAX. Even then it's still not as loud as VLC. It's clear that the system could go much much louder if boxee would only allow it.
8. The appropriate filters should be auto-selected when viewing sources. For example, when viewing Music, the 'Audio Files' filter should be enabled by default. Unless i explicitly ask for it, i should not see JPEGs, NFOs, and SFVs when i'm browsing my music. These filters should be persistent across sessions. (See here (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?p=559#post559) and here (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=123).)
9. boxee should yield control over the Apple Remote to other applications. (See here (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=176) and here (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=63).)
10. There's no ability to edit the paths of sources once they're created. If you want to change your 'Local Movies' source from /Users/kine/Movies to /Users/kine/Movies2, you have to delete the first source and make a whole new one with the corrected path. I don't see why boxee couldn't allow you to modify the path directly.