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0.6 on its way!

There is a new settings dialog to configure some gimmicks on phonecall handling and some bugfixes regarding sorting of episodes and removing items from a playlist.

Biggest news is the keypad navigation. Heres a short explanation:
Each screen uses the keypresses differently. The list allows to navigate, the NowPlaying view controls the playlist and the Keypad view forwards the keypresses to Xbmc.

Use Ctrl + Left/Right to navigate through the views.

The space key opens the context menu and the backspace key acts as escape on the N900. Better suggestions are welcome.

In the nowplaying view you can use "p" to open the playlist and "s" and "r" to change shuffle and repeat. Up and Down control the volume there. Seeking is not there yet but on the todo list.

Cool thing is that this makes xbmcremote very nice to use on the desktop. Thanks for pushing that feature. Otherwise it might have taken weeks until I implemented that

Some words on the features who didn't make it in:
Preview of pictures is basically in place but as Xbmc does not support server-side scaling (yet?) it is disabled it since it is kinda slow and drains the battery in no time. Constantly downloading and scaling down 12MP pictures is too much for the poor N900.

The itemdetails are not there because thats a bit more work. Right now I only fetch the minimum data for performance reasons. I need to introduce data structures to query single item details on demand.
 

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