Hi Nessus,
I have to congratulate you on Bello. Bello really puts a professional touch on the extensive capabilities of XBMC. My wife and young son are more than capable of driving Bello and appreciate me for making navigation of their TV world an enjoyable experience rather than a chore. We have completely moved away from Windows Media Center to complete whole house XBMC shared installation for all TV and Media so thanks really to all at XBMC and to you for Bello. The Bello interface is clean, slick, fast and most importantly it raises the bar on the user experience which is what consuming media is all about. Since I stumbled across Bello the family, which are the most important daily users that want a reliable easy to use system (unlike me who likes to fiddle) have suggested to me some minor usability improvements that will help them in daily use. Read into this what you will because I understand that you, rightly, tightly control the look and feel and the overall experience.
The suggestion is to increase the number of lines of information shown in the Live TV: TV Channels, EPG and Recordings screens. The same could be said for the other screens in Live TV but we don’t use those. I have read others making suggestions along the same lines, ours comes purely on feedback from daily use.
I have doctored up some woeful screen captures that show what I am trying to explain whilst its simple cut n paste you will get the picture. The idea is to take advantage of the empty real estate between the top of screen menu and the key information (EPG grid, Recordings List, Channels, etc). At the risk of creating excess features to maintain the view could be optional to maintain the standard view and add an extended view. I have two views one with 10 lines the other with 9.
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The only other suggestion that the wife has raised is that there appears to be a cap of 11 on the Recently Added and the In Progress items. With a large library and a few users 11 items really isn't enough because we are constantly adding new content and stopping and starting multiple different shows. If only I could get the son to watch something all the way through... I think the same stands for Music also but I am not in front of XBMC so this is a guess.
Thanks Again,
CV8R