Bug 5791 – need a facility to aid users installing background images from their computer

Bug 5791 - need a facility to aid users installing background images from their computer

Summary:

need a facility to aid users installing background images from their computer

Status:	CLOSED FIXED

Product:	SB Controller
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	UI
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	Macintosh Other

Importance:	P2 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone:	7.0
Assigned To:	Unassigned bug - please assign me!

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Reported:	2007-10-13 21:42 UTC by Blackketter Dean
Modified:	2008-05-15 12:59 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Blackketter Dean 2007-10-13 21:42:20 UTC

This could be part of the plugin install facility or a separate mechanism.

Comment 1 Blackketter Dean 2007-11-01 09:29:58 UTC

Can we use the new applet installer for this?

Comment 2 Blackketter Dean 2007-11-01 09:30:37 UTC

*** Bug 5891 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Adrian Smith 2007-11-04 05:11:36 UTC

We could definately reuse the hooks added for the applet downloader, but possbily not make it part of the applet downloader itself.

Some suggestions for discussion:

Jive UI:
I think the user interface on jive should be part of the current wallpaper settings menu.  This could request a list of server hosted wallpapers if it is current attached to a server and download them when selected.  Not sure how fast this would be, but its possible you would keep the current menu look and feel, but just have a longer list of wallpapers to browse.  Once selected the wallpaper would be saved and used by jive.

SC packaging:
Simplest would be for a plugin to include one or more files in its directory structure and add a <jivewallpapers> tag to the install.xml file which refers to any wallpaper files which may be downloaded.

Comment 4 Adrian Smith 2007-11-18 04:31:45 UTC

Initial version added at r927.  This requires the latest SC and a plugin which includes the wallpaper files.  I'll post an example plugin on the jive forum.

Comment 5 Blackketter Dean 2007-12-20 10:13:46 UTC

Fixed with the new plugin.

Comment 6 Blackketter Dean 2007-12-27 18:52:50 UTC

Hey Triode, where was that wallpaper  plugin?  I couldn't find it...

Comment 7 Adrian Smith 2007-12-28 03:13:15 UTC

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40399 includes a simple plugin which has a statically defined wallpaper which should show up on the menu list.  There's only one wallpaper due to the attachment size limit on the forum, but its been tested with multiple wallpapers.

The SC api allows plugins to dynamically add entries to the wallpaper list when it is browsed, so I was thinking about a plugin which allows you to select one or more images from you server file system for including on the selection list.  Not looked at this yet though...

Comment 8 Blackketter Dean 2007-12-28 04:38:57 UTC

Ah, cool.  Should that go up on the wiki or is it not done yet?

Comment 9 James Richardson 2008-05-15 12:59:45 UTC

This bug has recently been fixed in the latest release of SqueezeCenter 7.0.1

Please try that version, if you still see the error, then reopen this bug.

To download this version, please navigate to: http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html