New Movie (and TV!) view: Multiplex

hey, I like the new view. I think it would be cool to add the arrows on the left and the right of the coverflow as in the Wall-View or the new Picture Stripe view.
Could you add this?

It'll have them. Just didn't include them in the concepts.

Looks good! Info while browsing!

Those three words were basically set in stone for this view.

Looks beautiful djh_. So will pull these media images from the same place that serenity does? So MiP already has this under wraps. Also taking over from panel or showcase?

Its so customisable for one view, fantastic work. Think i like Full Mode Config 1 the best.

I don't think I'll use this view as long as I will love to have the fanarts in sideshow

anyway, very nice work, good choices for the distribution, the global aspect is nicely balanced !

It's a totally separate view to Showcase that caters to different requirements, though it does try and satisfy those looking for more fanart and more info. So it caters to two extremes, really, which is why any requests to strike a middle ground will be ignored. There's plenty of room for pop-up metadata in both Showcase and List later on, but this is for people who want lots of info there while they browse.

The additional screens will be pulled from one of two places, both within the folder containing each individual movie. The twin images will be something like thumb1.png and thumb2.png, while the unlimited single thumbs will be from a subfolder called, say, "extrathumbs". I haven't even begun to think about whether it's feasible to cater to users who don't use foldered movies, so please don't pester me about further support.

It's really not that hard to move all your movies into folders, there are simple sh/batch scripts that can do it in one fell swoop. That's how I did mine, and i'm much happier because of it, so I say let people take the extra 30 minutes and put things in folders, and that's if you want to rename the folders and become monkish about your collection. These scripts will literally work in under 15 seconds for my 300 movie collection.

Just my two cents.

--FF

Well it's true
I must admit that the last picture with the fanart is not that bad

Just an idea I had, I think it woul d be cool if you had a mode similar to the old-style sliding info panel for Showcase. Where you can scroll through the movies using this "lite mode"...

djh_ Wrote:Light mode.

And then when you pause on a selected movie for a few seconds, the detailed menu from one of these other modes slides up, or fades in...

djh_ Wrote:

I don't know if that would interest anyone else, or how complex that would be to code?