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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Power from USB?Re: Power from USB?
From: Antony Stone <Antony.Stone_at_rockbox.open.source.it>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 12:16:36 +0100 On Saturday 24 May 2008 11:42, Paul Louden wrote: > > I would have though the A-B button would be a better choice > > Actually, this is how it works on most other targets with USB charging. > The record button is legacy behaviour. In the past it didn't actually > take you to the recording screen. > > > Certainly it should be documented in the manual as a quirk / side-effect? > > Again this is a result of the recording feature being added to the > record button, rather than just a menu entry. Pardon my ignorance, but what else would the REC button take you to other than the recording screen? > I'm not sure how it all came about, but the quirk wasn't thought of. At this > point, it'd be better to simply factor out the quirk, which means changing > the button, but there's some disagreement on what exactly the final > behaviour should be. Perhaps it would be helpful to change the function to the A-B button now, especially if this is currently used on other devices, even if that's not the final behaviour decided upon? At least it's a more benign control to make use of, and less puzzling in the absence of an explanation in the manual. Antony. -- You can spend the whole of your life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day the size of the crowd at your funeral will be largely dictated by the weather. - Frank Skinner Please reply to the list; please don't CC me. ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.htmlReceived on 2008-05-24 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |