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Hello Silas,
thanks for asking. Please find my comments below.
Some humble suggestions: the RB menu is way too complicated. When
I hit menu it brings up the screen showing me which application is
being controlled, and what each button does on the remote. I have
to press another button to get around to doing anything useful,
like go to the menu I've set up in my profile. What if I already
know what the buttons do? That screen is superfluous; there should
be an option in the preferences to turn it off and go straight to
the main menu.
Except for a few Behaviours, including the Default Behaviour,
additional functionality for the respectively running app is provided
through the menu. I feel it's of greater use to have these handy
immediately instead of having to go to the application's Behaviour
submenu each and every time. The way it is now allows for greater
flexibility as you don't even have to have an entry for the
respective Behaviour in your menu and you still can access its
contextual items. I'm considering an option to jump straight to the
main menu, though, for those that want this functionality.
Also: in the 'menu' preference screen, if I hit the 'plus' under
my profile, it creates a folder that I can rename. That folder then
appears in my menu. But I can only put elements and actions from
the left side into that folder. Why not allow users to point that
folder to a real folder... then they could set up their own smart
folders in the finder and use them as they see fit, rather than
rely on the few available on the left.
This functionality exists. You can drag and drop items from the
Finder, Path Finder, etc. to Remote Buddy and it'll allow you to
browse / launch them.
Likewise: in the 'behaviours' tab, I can create a custom action to
be assigned to a button press; but in the 'menu' tab I cannot.
Why? (It now occurs to me that this issue may well encompass the
last one.)
You can create an action in the BCK, check its "globally available"
checkbox and then select it from the Miscellaneous category in the
Menu configuration section.
Finally, and this is maybe quibbling, but I'll mention it anyway:
the iTunes music browser is very nice, but iTunes now does movies,
TV shows and podcasts, among other things... the RB music browser
seems based on iTunes 4, with only artist, album, playlist, track.
It would be nice if the browser worked with these other media as
well as music.
You should be able to find these under "Playlists".
Best regards,
Felix
