Announce: Material Skin

[cpd73]

most of the buttons have tooltips, but most of those do not include their keyboard shortcut as part of the tooltip.

Not all buttons have shortcuts. Which ones are you referring to?

[Ron F.]

Hi Craig,

You probably have a good reason for this, but I noticed in the Material desktop display / expanded "Now Playing" view, that most of the buttons have tooltips, but most of those do not include their keyboard shortcut as part of the tooltip. Is this because keyboard shortcuts can be disabled and it is difficult to dynamically add the shortcuts to the button tooltips when they are enabled?

[Izocad]

You can't if you're using Grid view, use List view to drag & drop favourites.

Thanks, this indeed workls for me!

[Redrum]

How did you manage to create a favourites folder without an icon? All folders get the folder icon for me - whether I create with Material or default skin. Even if I edit favorites.opml and remove the icon/image setting for a folder it still gets the folder icon - as I would expect.

And yes, to allow grid you need images or icons.

Hi Craig;

I created folders in LMS UI way before the birth of material, but I also have created them in Material with "create folder" (folder with a '+' icon). I have not edited anything as I am more of a label over picture navigation kind of guy.

If you look at my two images from this post: https://forums.slimdevices.com/forum...26#post1638826 The first one, with only folders, does not show the folder icon, but it is in the entry (I assume). When I added a song from my library (fifty-four), viola, the folder icons appeared, along with the grid view selector.

ok...I just read your latest post, regarding duplicated being hidden, and your rev. All I wrote is moot, but I'll post anyhow...

Thanks again for all you do.

Jim

[cpd73]

edit favorites.opml and remove the icons for all folders

OK, this was only occurring if more than 1 folder - I was previously testing with only one folder. The reason that this is happening is that Material has some code to hide icons in list if they are all the same - this is because apps such as iHeartRadio use the same icon for each list entry, which I think looks bad. So, if there is more than 1 icon entry in a list and they are all the same icon, then they are all hidden. However, this should not apply to favourites - and I have now fixed this for the next release.

[CJS]

How did you manage to create a favourites folder without an icon? All folders get the folder icon for me - whether I create with Material or default skin. Even if I edit favorites.opml and remove the icon/image setting for a folder it still gets the folder icon - as I would expect.

I tested this, and see the following behavior:

If the favorites top level ONLY has folders and NO other favorites, and I edit favorites.opml and remove the icons for all folders (that I previously added myself), then:

• Default skin and jivelite/squeezeplay show default red heart symbol for the folders
• Material skin shows NO icons for the folders

When I then add a radio station favorite to the favorites top level, then:

• Default skin and jivelite/squeezeplay show default red heart symbol for the folders, plus icon for the added favorite
• Material skin shows default white folder symbol for the folders, plus icon for the added favorite

So the behavior of LMS Material is exactly as shown in the screenshots posted by Redrum in post number 9826.

[cpd73]

That would explain it. I guess I never worry about icons too much.

How did you manage to create a favourites folder without an icon? All folders get the folder icon for me - whether I create with Material or default skin. Even if I edit favorites.opml and remove the icon/image setting for a folder it still gets the folder icon - as I would expect.

And yes, to allow grid you need images or icons.

[Redrum]

If I wanted grid view in favorites root (I don't), I could edit just one, or add a single item that would end up at the bottom (like ZZ Top ).

But I am a list and name kind of guy, so we will just move on, nothing to see here Nice you came up with an explanation though. Your offer to share the opml file would have indeed made grid available, and I would have been further confused!

Jim

[CJS]

But, I could argue that the folder symbol is indeed an icon

The folder symbol is for sure called an icon in the LMS favorites.opml file. So yes. I think that this is the explanation. Personally I like to assign icons to my Favorites folders. However (as far as I know) this can only be done by manually editing the favorites.opml file. And you need to prepare icons and copy them to LMS. So it does require some extra effort.

[Redrum]

An explanation may be that Material skin only offers the grid view option when the view contains one or more icons. .

That would explain it. I guess I never worry about icons too much. In fact, I'll add a radio station to favorites from the now playing, rather than browse, and that results in no icon, where, if I used browse, it would. I discovered that a bit ago.

But, I could argue that the folder symbol is indeed an icon

Jim

[CJS]

Nope, done being curious . Thanks for trying it out!

An explanation may be that Material skin only offers the grid view option when the view contains one or more icons. I have added an icon to each folder, while you haven't.

FYI, for each category (folder) in my favorites I have copied an icon (in png format) to directory /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/HTML/EN/html/images (location for LMS debian package). This icon is then included in file favorites.opml as follows (example for category "Rock Radio Stations"):

<outline icon="html/images/rock_radio_icon.png" text="Rock Radio Stations">
     favorites in this category
</outline>

[Redrum]

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If your curiosity remains.

Nope, done being curious . Thanks for trying it out!

Just to document with pictures (in case fellow members think I'm (still) nuts). This is on the apk, although the browser (PC, using Chrome) behaves the same

Favorites just folders, no grid option:



I added the song "Fifty-Four" from my library - grid option appears:



Jim

[CJS]

CJS - still curiosity remains . Can you try adding a station and then removing it? My favorites are always in list. I think when I added from an apps->live 365 menu, then went back into favorites, not only was the grid selection there, but the list was in grid mode as well, and I did not change that.

OK, I added a station to my favorites from the Radio Now Playing app. Then I deleted the station from my favorites using Material skin, and the grid selection option in Favorites root is still there .

If your curiosity remains, I can PM you my favorites.opml file, just let me know. You could then compare your favorites.opml with mine. Maybe you can find a difference that may explain why Material does show the grid option with my favorites.opml and not with yours.

[Redrum]

CJS - still curiosity remains . Can you try adding a station and then removing it? My favorites are always in list. I think when I added from an apps->live 365 menu, then went back into favorites, not only was the grid selection there, but the list was in grid mode as well, and I did not change that.

Jim

[CJS]

I have no (zero) stations in my favorites root (only folders), and no grid option is shown. I added a random station to to the root, and viola - grid option, Deleted that station - no grid option again.

FYI, I also have only folders in my favorites root, and still the grid option is shown. See screenshot below. So it is still not clear why in your case Material does not show the grid option. I guess one shouldn't want to understand everything .


In case it matters, I am using:

Logitech Media Server Version: 8.3.2 - 1679892799 @ Mon 27 Mar 2023 07:23:21 AM CEST
OS: Debian - EN - utf8
Platform: x86_64-linux
Perl Version: 5.34.0 - x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
Audio::Scan: 1.05
IO::Socket::SSL: 2.074

Material skin v3.2.4.