Suggestions for a future version


Compliments for v1.0!!! Thanks to all the developers for this awesome loader.

Now that v1.0 is out, let me provide the following suggestions for v1.5....

1) Up to now, two modes can be used:
- 3Dcovers: it shows full 3d covers, discarts, and allows to download just
discarts and full covers
- 2Dcovers: it uses 2d covers, discarts, and allows to download just
discarts and 2d covers
These two different modes have the following problems:
- when a 3dcover is missing we have a "missing" image and the corresponding
2d one is not used,
- you may have the 3dcover of a game but not the 2d one and viceversa
To solve these problems let me suggest to simplify the approach as follows :
- one only mode (so that there is no more need to change from one to
another), if the 3d cover is present it is first used, if it is missing
then the corresponding 2d cover is used.
- one only download mode: both 2d ,3d and discarts are downloaded in the
same download process
In this way, the "missing" images are reduced to the minimum and the 2d
covers, if necessary, are already present in the SD.

2)  Consider the opportunity to create a folder for the specific file of
CoverFloader, for example "CoverFloaderFiles", in order to have:
sd:/usb-loader/CoverFloaderFiles/wiicoverflow.xml
sd:/usb-loader/CoverFloaderFiles/gamelist.xml
sd:/usb-loader/CoverFloaderFiles/wiiboxart.pass
sd:/usb-loader/covers/
sd:/usb-loader/disks/
sd:/usb-loader/3dcovers/
The aims of the folder are: group togheter the config and auxiliary files
of CoverFloader, do not spread them and confuse them among other files of
other loaders, allows in the future to simply add functionalities with no
conflicts with other loaders (themes for example)
Clearly, images, titles.txt, wiitdb.zip are not specific files of
CoverFloader and hence can be shared with other loaders, for this rason
they should not be placed in the "proprietary" folder "CoverFloaderFiles"
(again, this is an example name)

3) A need is to have the possibility to set the paths to the non specific
files of CoverFloader, that are the files which can be shared with other
loaders:
- a path to the flat 2d covers
- a path to the full 3d covers
- a path to the discarts
- a path to the titles.txt file (if needed)
- a path to the wiitdb.zip file (if needed)
I know that you're already planning this and that you think a screen
keyboard is needed to insert the paths. Let me suggest that maybe just a
config text file placed in the previously described folder
"CoverFloaderFiles" and to be edited at the computer is more than sufficient.

Thanks again to all the developers for the good job .
Original issue reported on code.google.com by camb...@ec.unipi.it on 8 Jul 2009 at 11:20
scognito / wiicoverflow

Suggestions for a future version #325
