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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Re[2]: Rockbox 2.0 Feature FreezeRe: Re[2]: Rockbox 2.0 Feature Freeze
From: Sweth Chandramouli <rockbox_at_astaroth.sweth.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:57:51 -0500 On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 06:14:40PM +0100, Björn Stenberg wrote: > Eric Linenberg wrote: > > So many of these features are becoming harder to get to and more > > hidden, > > They do? I thought they were in the same places as ever... I'm not sure where they always were, but I can say as someone just starting to use Rockbox that they weren't all obvious, especially the multiple-button functions; I was just about to write in asking how to lock the player when I saw Eric's (very very useful) list. I may have missed something on the webpage, of course. > > I think that there needs to be a UI cleanup before anything > > else is added in. > > If you have suggestions and ideas, please share them. I think that things are mostly intuitive (except for the multi-button functions), but there are a few places where they could be made more sensible. I'd expect more consistent and distinct uses for the play and right arrow buttons, for example--right arrow should always be "advance one level deeper", while play should always be "activate whatever is selected". Especially when dynamic recursive playlists become a reality, this will almost definitely be how new users will expect things to work--clicking play while a directory is selected should queue up that directory's contents rather than entering that directory. Another thing I'd like to see is better grouping among the multi-button functions. Since F2 is the "playback" menu button, maybe the F2+something combinations could all be (at least vaguely) playback-related functions, like pitch control, mute, and maybe keylock, while F3+something combinations could be display-related functions, like ID3 tag display? -- Sweth. -- Sweth Chandramouli Idiopathic Systems Consulting svc_at_idiopathic.net http://www.idiopathic.net/Received on 2003-01-31 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |