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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: discussion regarding adding settings (PLEASE add your 2 cents)Re: discussion regarding adding settings (PLEASE add your 2 cents)
From: Thomas Martitz <thomas47_at_arcor.de>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:44:53 +0100 pondlife schrieb: > I suggested moving the settings to a plugin a while ago on IRC, the major > objections were: > a) Voice isn't (yet) supported > b) Requires a disk spinup (to load the plugin) each time you want to change > a setting. I too suggested that some time ago, and the idea was rejected for the same reasons. Some people tended to call it a "evil plan", so I guess there's much scepticalness about that. Although I never understood why. I personally hardly change settings that frequently that a disk spinnup would not be worth it. Also, the buffering could take the opportunity of such a spin up and just rebuffer, just since the disk is already spinning, and so minimalize the extra spin ups. But that only helps against the bin size. There's also other problems, e.g. the settings bloat. I absolutely hate settings bloat. I know lots of apps, which I just never started to use, because all the zillions of settings kinda gave me a headache. Settings bloat rather keeps new users (and contributers) away from rockbox, rather then inviting them. This could be a bit solved with having very advanced/expert settings not in the settings menu, but rather only achievable through editing the config file. That would do great to together with a pc app which would possibly let one change any setting, and only shipping the core settings with Rockbox. However, that of course leads to the discussion which setting is to be considered as core setting and which as expert and which as advanced and so on. That's very personal taste. In the end I tend to agree with Llorean. Keeping the settings as simple as possible, but without excluding/rejecting worthwhile features due to that is the way to go. Achieving that is truly a challenge though and will not reduce the amount of precommit discussions. Received on 2008-10-27 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |