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Felix, first of all thanks for the new behavior; it's great to have so many more actions and richer default mappings, very nice. I've encountered a couple of issues though:
•Display OSD: this action brings up the wrong OSD during video playback. It shows the audio OSD which is different from the Video one, and seems to cause conflict with the skin since it's hidden and overlapping with another skin element.
•"Back": the back button in the PS3 remote is mapped to "Previous Menu" which isn't consistent with the design for going back in Plex. Plex uses a different "back" implementation from XBMC. Plex always goes back 1 level, whether you are in file mode, library mode or playback. It's similar to Front Row. So depending on the context, "Back" will invoke ParentDir, or Previous Menu, or "Stop" or "Tab". The Back button should behave the same as the "Esc" key on Plex's keyboard keymap.
I tried assigning "Navigation: Menu" to "Back" in the PS3 remote, but it doesn't work well. For example during video playback, hitting "Back" will bring up the OSD which is clearly inappropriate since the expected behavior is to "go back" to the previous screen.
•Big skip forward, big skip back": these two functions are missing from the default PS3 keymap and also from others. Previously, the up and down arrows did invoke these actions during playback and it was very useful. Currently up and down adjusts volume which is useful to some but not others.
•Navigation keys: the navigation keys seem to replicate the Apple Remote behavior, but there are a couple of keys missing: Right (held) Left (held) and Menu (held). Right and Left held are important because, for example, these keys are used during video playback to big skip forward and big skip back respectively. Without these, the navigation keys are missing functionality and therefore will not work properly.
•Buttons (held): buttons in the PS3 remote in the held position don't seem to work. I'm not sure if this is an known issue?
•The Subtitles and Audio buttons in the PS3 remote are both mapped to "Next Audio Track". Subtitles should be mapped to "Next Subtitle"
• The 'change monitor' action is missing: this action allows the Plex window to switch monitors. While the user could add this action by himself, considering the extensive list of actions it would be really nice if RB included this by default. Also, many new users that aren't familiar with the action would be able to discover it. The action can be triggered with command-shift-arrow_left. Would it be possible to add it?
• When I tried changing the up and down buttons to match Plex's keyboard mapping, I tried the "Up", "Down" actions thinking that these would imitate the up and down keyboard keys, but they don't. I'm not sure if these very useful... perhaps it'd be better to replace them with keyboard equivalents? Otherwise they may just be confusing.
I'd appreciate it very much if you could address these issues, thanks again!
Last edited: 17.02.2009 06:04:53
