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Refactor Console UI

PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:02 pm
by Deto
Hello
while i'm using Serviio for a while, i have a few ideas for improvements of the GUI.

My first big improvement where an easy rearrangement of the shared folders. At this point i thought about a new GUI design. I attached a quick mockup.
It is of course resizable, to use more space on your screen.
The client preview feature is to see, how the actual folders are rendered on the tv/device. rows and columns are maybe different on each tv and so you can preview and rearrange. In this preview it is also possible to browse the current folder structure.

what do you think?

Deto

Re: Refactor Console UI

PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:20 pm
by zip
HI, that looks nice. I have, however, no intention to redesigning the console at this time as I'm focusing more on the server side. It might happen in the future though.

Re: Refactor Console UI

PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:27 pm
by Deto
if you want, i can implement an working GUI-only version of my ideas.
You then use this if its worth it.

Re: Refactor Console UI

PostPosted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:44 pm
by zip
How abut a standalone Windows 8 console using the Serviio API? That might be useful :-)

Re: Refactor Console UI

PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 4:27 pm
by Deto
a metro app using the api sounds good. i power up my virtual machine with windows 8 an check the developer guidelines. then i look how these cooperate with an serviio console interface.
if i have something to show, i post it :)

Re: Refactor Console UI

PostPosted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:28 pm
by zip
Cool :-)