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(1st Jul, 2013 12:59 AM)IriDium Wrote:  1) I'd like to see xbmc restart from within xbmc (Say on the shutdown window)
2) A working cpu usage display (something similar to the "OSD" when watching a video)
I know this may not be possible due to the actual screen using a lot of CPU at the time of display but ....
3) An option to play songs automatically when an album is selected.

1) you can do the xbmc restart yourself. just install any of the add ons which are able to start system command / script and map a hotkey, or menu or what do you want to "reload xbmc", or "kill -HUP xbmc".

2) and what it should show then? I suppose the cpu load is hidden in the skin because everybody complained, why it is 60-90%, when the RPI is doing nothing. so is out. but the high cpu load is cpu load. so much cpu power the xbmc by "redrawing" screen takes. when you play movie, gpu is doing the work and cpu is on holiday. it's absurd, but if you wan't to get you RPI a little bit rest and cool minutes, play a HD video

3) what it it? that you moves you cursor over album on list and it starts playing? ... the xbmcs music part is not the best, but is loong over the cpu limit of RPI and not even on RPI. I have 30.000 track on iCloud / two iTunes libraries. I had a dream to have it on XBMC installations available as well, but with some hassles currently I'm at 9.000 tracks indexed in sql db which makes the whole XBMC like snail, to find an album and play a track takes looong seconds, sometimes crashes. but RPI is able to play this db when controlled from iPhone, or other remote.
but tell me what's your idea and let's see.

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(7th Jul, 2013 10:44 AM)Dee Wrote:  Two words: Kiosk mode.

Lack of kiosk mode in stock Confluence is a bit of a pet peeve. To my thinking kiosk mode is key to make it kid-resistant and wife-accepted.

what is kiosk mode ?