Its been a long time since there was feature request for really unique things. Hopefully we all catch the vision of Xlobby again and strive to make it better than every other front-end out there. Most of our feature request are little technical advances, or bug fixes to the existing XL; while these are necessary, where are all the "big" feature requests? Now that Steven is developing again, let us as an Xlobby community inspire him. Here are some things I believe are the waves of the future...
1. Everyone knows TV on dvd is the way to go, and many people are cateloging their episodes online in home built servers. I invision a database managed personal TV generator. It would have a chrono calculator that could randomly generate given amounts of television viewing from our database of online shows. How cool would it be to input 75 min of "Threes Company" and have Xlobby "decide" a random playlist of my shows back to back 75min long. Or better yet a random from my whole tv database. Or even a calender scheduler of my favorite shows from my online collection. I could watch Cosby on mondays, and Friends on Thursdays, no commercials no surfing, just reruns of the programs I love and own.
2. From a visial standpoint, I think as more and more HTPCs make their way controlling homes and entertainment, Virtual components (matching hardware) could be created and a touchscreen could be installed in the rack system. Why look at a plain blue VFD, when I can have 64bit, color graphics telling me the same info? I bring this up because I think that 2 monitor setups will be the way to go in HTPC. The "inrack" control screen and the 65" HDTV monitor. Xlobby should have full dual monitor support.
more to come... add yours.