Bannerplex navigation issues when Infopanel is visible

Anyway, enough debate.

In the interests of practicing what I've been preaching and making constructive and valuable contributions to these forums lets talk technical.

So given what we have now established concerning this particular issue, I propose that 1 of 2 things needs to happen to improve the situation:

1. Standard Usability testing tells us that if a feature doesn't work 100% correctly in any given area in your UI then that feature should not be visible or active in that area at all. So in this particular case, if the "trigger" mode doesn't work correctly with the Bannerplex view then I would suggest that it should be completely removed as an option.

This is entirely for the benefit of end users who will come in there, like I did, see the feature, turn it on, and then try to figure out what they are doing wrong because it doesn't seem to work 100% correctly.

In my case, I assumed that there was a keyboard button that hides/unhides the Infopanel, or some combination of key presses, and I spent quite some time trying to figure out how to make that Infopanel become visible and stay visible while I navigated but with "trigger mode" on.

Now, I realise that there may be technical hurdles involved in getting rid of that feature altogether because of tight integration with things this skin may be dependent on.

Which brings me to option 2:

2. The other solution is to introduce a specific shortcut key that hides/unhides the Infopanel anywhere where the Infopanel is relevant and "trigger" mode is active. This would apply for all relevant views for both movies and TV shows. That shortcut key could then be mapped to a dedicated button on a programmable remote control too.

This would be very nice change and would solve the problem entirely.

But here again, I don't know what would be involved in doing this at a technical level and how generic the underlying code is or how much of that code is shared across all views where the Infopanel is relevant. I'm assuming that some form of inheritance is in play in the base code for those views so hopefully it would only require changes to base classes, in one place, and it would propagate upwards from there.

Based on the reading and research I've been doing with regards to TV show management in XBMC, it seems like the Bannerplex view is quite popular for TV shows so some work to fix this issue seems justifiable.

Again, this is a very much an end user focused issue because it's the kind of thing the normal average person out there will assume SHOULD be working purely because it's available to turn on. Then when it doesn't work they will get horribly confused and won't understand why not.

I hope that adds a bit more insight into the issue as a whole and where my frustrations were coming form yesterday.

I´m sarcastic here. And I´m sarcastic in real life, too. I have no problem admitting that.
and i would quit if i people here would forbid me to be sarcastic.
And yes, I do not always read the whole text (god forgive me), because experience tells me that when someone writes a summation then it is really a summation.
yours wasn´t.
All other people here just give a sarcastic answer back to me (which is totally fine for me) or see that they wrote a wrong question and specifiy it. your reaction is laughable.

btw naming your profession to understate your "credibility" is one of the poorest things people can do. i really give a shit about for who you work for or what you do in private life.

I hope you won´t get into contact with spiff for example, he´s twice the calibre than I am in that aspect

and concerning your suggestion for my "most optimal" anwer... i´m posting a bit more here than you so forgive me that I cannot write such long texts in every answer.
i want to help everybody here, that wouldn´t be possible if i would answer all questions in the way you suggested. simple as that.

You amuse me.

Greatly.

perhaps your "entire software development team" in your "professional capacity" will help you with your problems.

LOL

I have a lot of testers here who can do stability and usability testing on your UI for you if you like.

(2012-05-14 17:43)SiliconKid Wrote:  LOL

I have a lot of testers here who can do stability and usability testing on your UI for you if you like.

i prefer the community here for work like that.