WOW, just WOW (and some suggestions)

The vast majority of people use a remote control with XBMC. That's how it's designed.

Don't misunderstand my comment above. There's nothing wrong with you asking and trying to understand why things are the way they are. That's how the project continue to get better. Sometimes there is an explanation. Other times, the answer is just simply there wasn't a big enough request/needs by the user base. It takes a user like to you to bring it up and evoke the change.

As of right now, I can't think of any reason why the single click of the mouse shouldn't pause and unpause a playing video by default. I wonder it affects the touch devices though.

That's the exact reason, yes. Single click (touch) brings up the OSD for touch devices. Touch devices are by far more useful for XBMC than using it with a mouse, so the priority is for those devices.

An idea, and something I'm sure has been thought about by our devs, would be an easy way to switch between common sets of keymaps within the GUI. You could open up XBMC and in settings select "mouse-heavy settings" or something like that, so you have the flexibility without having to make a keymap and all that.

Granted there's a fine balancing act between adding such things and at the same time not bloating settings or making things more confusing for other situations.

Well, personally I bought this thing: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SZU...02_s00_i00

Is not perfect, but is good. You can see the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6VSZsJkyeU

Since I use my HTPC for other things, I needed something that is also a keyboard.

But if most people use remotes, that would explain not many people having the problems I have.

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Quote: jmarshall Wrote:3.1 The only place you need this is in listings, whereby you already have the parent folder item. Again, assuming you're using Confluence, it has "exit" buttons on every screen that needs them (eg dialogs, fullscreen info etc.)

Right, but my artist library has more than 300 items, so to use the parent folder, i need to scroll 200+ lines. Obviously i can use the HOME button, but, in that case I need to have the keyboard near me. I think that adding a simple back button besides the home would be simple and effective.

I might have missed the point, but isn't the backspace key designated as back / up one level. I have both this and the escape key mapped to 2 different buttons on my remote so i can go back the the home screen or back / up one level as i please.

Spacebar pauses by default.

Most XBMC users (I assume) use some form of remote control. Probably a MCE variant, which works out of the box and doesn't require any mouse movement.

Personally I have a wireless keyboard (with roller ball mouse built in) and MCE remote and a mouse. Of the three I use the mouse the least, and rarely use the roller ball on the wireless keyboard.