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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Jump scroll feature for playerRe: Jump scroll feature for player
From: anthony spadoni <anthony_spadoni_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 06:13:39 +0000 Remo Hofer wrote >Kjell Ericson wrote: > > On Fri, 23 May 2003, Remo Hofer wrote: > > > >> From the description of this feature (I've not yet tested it), it > >> should default to off, because the slow scrolling has less potential > >> to confuse a new user. And a user who cares about scrolling will > >> find the option anyway. > > > > I totaly agree in your theory about confisuing new users. > > > > Please test it and share your view then. > >I did now, and to be honest, I don't like jump scrolling at all. The >best setting I found was a "Jump Delay" of 1000 ms. Otherwise I could >not follow the text. But my soft "Scroll Speed" is 9 Hz which is not so >much slower than jump scrolling (11/1000 ms = 11 Hz) with it's confusing >look. For me, it looks like an artefact while loading the string. So, I >vote for turning off jump scrolling by default. > >Maybe the fact that all my filenames consist only of only the track >number followed by the title help living without this feature. My >directories are named after the artist and album. The only place, where >I see long strings scolling, is in the wps. My first line in the wps >config is: >%s%pp/%pe: %?it<%it|%fn> - %?ia<%ia|%d2> - %?id<%id|%d1> > >Or maybe I'm just a slow reader. It's not just you. I also find it to be an odd and and difficult to read way of presenting things. I don't think it should be the default. You always want to have the more standard modes as default and offer the "special" ones as options. _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Received on 2003-06-02 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |