Dashboard View

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As discussed, a nice enhancement would be to add a dashboard view to the
plugin. This could be the first view you get when entering the plugin. This
view could display some general information:

* Active Profile information (maybe even with an option to login - hooked
into parent control)
* Last watched
* Most watched / Favorite Movies
* Recent additions
* Statistics (movies, movie watched etc..)
* in the long run we could link this to an online community

Feel free to add more ideas to this issue

Original issue reported on code.google.com by apond...@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2009 at 2:52

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I am currently planning/writing a plugin for such a community feature.
Everytime a user starts/stops a media file information about this event will be
posted to a server (I want this server to be free, so that everybody can have a
private installation for their friends if they want to). In Mediaportal a list 
of
recent activities of your friends will be displayed. 

Current status is "planning", problems are mostly a lack of free time :-/

Such info could be displayed on a "dashboard".

Bye, Shukuyen.

Original comment by shuku...@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2009 at 3:58

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This looks like a great idea. But I think that the enhancement that Shuku is 
proposing goes a lot further than the original enhancement - and should get its 
own 
issue.
I myself have been thinking about something similar to the Dashboard for a 
while 
now, just havent gotten around to putting it together. And now I see that an 
issue 
was already in the issue-tracker.

The way I picture it is that it functions like sort of a "frontpage" for 
MovingPictures. It could show statistics like last watched and stuff like that, 
but 
the main function I am thinking of would be to have it act like a graphical way 
of 
using filtering.
So you could have a "category" called "Genre": This would show the top 3-5 
genre 
with a little artwork/description + an option for "all genres". If you click 
one of 
the genres (comedy), you are taken to the current MovingPictures GUI (the movie 
list) with the filtering of "Genre=Comedy".
The same if you click on "action" or "thriller". If you click "all genres" you 
get a 
list of all the genres (similar to the current Movie List).

Another category could be "Actors". This would show the top 3-5 of actors in 
your 
movie collection (the actors that have starred in most of your movies), if 
possible 
with a headshot of them and a little description. Again + "all actors". Works 
the 
same way as above, clicking an actor takes you to the movie list with 
filtering "actor=Clint Eastwood".

I have no idea how the filtering system works (but looking very much forward to 
seeing it in action), so it may work in a completely different way than I 
imagined 
and therefor won't work for this feature. This is just the way I have imagined 
a 
frontpage/dashboard for MovingPictures.

I have a very clear picture in my head of what it could look like, but I am not 
a 
graphics designer and have trouble describing it. I hope I can get around to 
doing a 
feature request that describes the idea with some pictures.

Original comment by jona...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2009 at 1:45

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Retagged the version number for this issue. This is not a rescheduling, we 
are just changing our version number scale.

Original comment by conrad.john on 29 Nov 2009 at 8:09

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Original comment by conrad.john on 31 Jan 2011 at 1:23

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