Bugzilla – Bug 6124
Zero size playlists should have a single menu item that says 'Nothing'
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:21:17 UTC
I am in the habit of pressing "Now Playing" then "left" to return to a known position in the top level menu. This behaviour is handy. For example, from muscle memory I can press "Now Playing", "left", "up", "right" to get to the slimscrobbler entry on my plugins menu. (this exact sequence depends on my personal menu layout, of course) ptorpey on the general forum asked whether there is sequence of remote button presses which will always sign off slimserver. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40136. This would be useful for partially sighted users. He could use this too..... ....except that it doesnt always work. If the current playlist is empty then the "Now Playing" remote button leaves your menu position unchanged. Patch to follow.
Created attachment 2398 [details] always move the current playlist, even if it is empty
I've been thinking about this. It actually makes some sense to do this (although the patch needs some tweaking). Jive allows entry into the now playing screen also when playlist is empty. consistency is the reasoning. Right now, Jive will show a blank page with the heading "Stopped". We either want to block now playing entry for empty playlist on Jive or do the changes suggested here. I'd also recommend adding "empty" to the jive ui as well so that folks don't think something simply didn't show up on Jive ("this space intentionally left blank")
I agree. Pressing the Now Playing button should jump you to: Now Playing Nothing and left should take you back to the home menu. KDF: If you want to look at this for 7.0, that's fine with me, otherwise please mark as Future and we'll look at this later.
SqueezeCenter changes merged at change 15738. Now playing on Jive, for empty playlist still needs work (shows last known item even after it's removed, so I guess it doesn't properly update on empty playlist)
I'm basically done with server-side, and I believe Ben has been doing a lot of changes on the now playing/current playlist in jive. I'm not sure what the reference design target is, but screen jumping seems to be in line "now playing" button pressing behaviour. Ben can either close off, or merge with the other Now playing bug.
Hmmm...interesting, first I've seen of this SC bug. I've been working fairly heavily in this UI area of Jive, and what I have arrived at is this: NowPlayingApplet = Big Artwork "now playing" page, served by NowPlaying applet CurrentPlaylist = Playlist page, served by SlimBrowser applet when playlist is non-zero in size: Home Menu: Now Playing <-> NowPlayingApplet <-> CurrentPlaylist when playlist is empty: Home Menu: Now Playing <-> CurrentPlaylist, with one single non-selectable "nothing" item in the menu everything works as described there, except for the "nothing" item. That worked too, until Richard broke it... :)
that's what I thought. I was sure there was a "nothing", but wasn't seeing it now. That's all that's left for this one really. We did actually speak about this one last week sometime, I just didn't end up mentioning the bug number because you were already working on the very thing needed :)
This is now only Jive, right?
yes, just Jive. Changed summary to make more sense to the issue left to fix.
fixed in SC 7.0 branch change 16542 fixed in jive r1544
Created attachment 2696 [details] screenshot of playlist window when playlist is empty
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