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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: NEWKEYS v2Re: NEWKEYS v2
From: c s <rb_dev_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 03:50:54 -0700 (PDT) --- Kjell Ericson <Kjell.Ericson_at_haxx.se> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, c s wrote: > > > --- CombThins <bmnews_at_blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > > > > To me, it is entirely consistent with cancelling > out of one menu level to > > > go back, and pressing play is entirely natural > to "OK" the setting. > > > > Not at all. > > Oh, so it isn't entirely consistent to him? Even if > he writes so? I didn't say that. You edited out the sentence that I said "Not at all" to. He made a point about why using a button labeled STOP for accepting a setting was bad and I responded about how the labels STOP and PLAY don't apply to a lot of the functions that we have had to map to those buttons, but how the user would still expect those buttons to work consistantly within the menu screens. The word stop doesn't mean go back a level, yet users who want to go back a level in the settings menu just automatically press the STOP button to do that because they are conditioned to do so by the fact that we (almost always) consistantly use the stop button to go back a menu level. Similarly when users are not prompted to accept or cancel a setting, they press STOP to keep the setting at what they changed it to and back out of that menu level since they are finished there... but oops, the key for backing out of the menu level that they are finished with has suddenly been changed to a cancel button. > I agree that I made it bad when I missed the > play-button in the > volume-setting. The fact that you think that the mistake you made in all this was not having an accept button for a volume setting function tells me that you just don't understand the basics of good UI design. In all my years, I have NEVER seen a volume change function that had a confirm option. I don't think that many Rockbox users are wondering how to "confirm" the volume change that they just made. That's not to say it doesn't make sense to you to have a confirm. If it seems logical to you, I have no problem with that, but it still doesn't mean that it follows good UI design principals and should be in the code that is used by the masses. As I said before, I'm not arguing this for me... I fixed my version of the code a long time ago. I am just trying to point out some basic solid accepted principals of good UI design in the hope that the Rockbox UI will be improved for the masses who must rely on the official builds. ===== Craig rb_dev_at_yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Received on 2003-08-27 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |