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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Recording screen: breaking the lawRe: Recording screen: breaking the law
From: nobby nobbs <nobbynobbs_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:02:04 +0100 that sounds very intuitive and sensible to me. :) On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 20:52:02 +0100, Ray Lambert <listlizard_at_interthingy.net> wrote: > Philipp Pertermann wrote: > >> Rockbox isn't ergonomical when you have recorded something. I'd like to >> improve its behaviour - even before the grand ui overhaul. I put my >> thoughts >> and first attempts here: >> http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/BreakingTheLawForRecording >> >> What do you think? Please discuss! >> >> Phil >> > I've given this some thought, considering the current configuration and > some of my own use cases, etc., and I've come up with the following > suggestions: > > Note that I'm personally satisfied with the way the recording screen is > right now. So, while I do think that your ideas are good and would be > useful in some scenarios, I'm generally in favor of preserving the > status quo. I think these suggestions do that in large part while still > allowing for your ideas. Here's what I would do: > > Create a new menu, which I'll call the "Recording Disposition Menu". > This menu is displayed automatically when a recording is ended using the > STOP button. When this menu exits, it returns to the recording screen. > The STOP button is one way to exit the menu; thus, when the menu isn't > needed, pressing STOP twice will approximate the previous behavior. The > menu contains items such as: "Playback", "Rename", and "Delete" (all in > reference to the just-completed recording). I would also add an item to > the "Recording Options Menu" to disable the "Recording Disposition Menu" > for those who just don't want or need it. > > There's only one more way to end a recording (that I'm aware of) and > that's by pressing F3 while recording. This causes the current > recording to end and a new recording to begin immediately (effectively > inserting a "cue" into a longer continuous recording, such as a > concert). Inserting the "Recording Disposition Menu" here would disrupt > the whole purpose of this feature, so I can't see how it could be done. > But I think that's a reasonable trade-off for functionality: if you need > the cuing capability you cannot also have control over disposition. Of > course, you can easily do all that dispositive stuff later anyway. > > What do you think? Would that satisfy your needs, or did I miss > something? Is there another way to end a recording that I missed? (I > guess there's the shutdown case, but I think the solution in that case > is obvious: no menu.) > > ~ray > > _______________________________________________ > http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockboxReceived on 2005-09-06 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |