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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: jdgordon: r21307 - trunk/appsRe: jdgordon: r21307 - trunk/apps
From: Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:26:54 -0500 Jonathan Gordon wrote: > Thats an interesting idea... but how would it work with theming? > It's also impossible on pure mono targets anyway. I really don't think removing the menu item would be that bad when there's no playback to resume, personally. My original idea of "say nothing to resume" wasn't something I expected him to immediately implement, just a suggestion at how we could explore other possibilities if the whole "make all splashes 3 or 4 seconds long, but make them able to be cancelled if you know the one specific button" was mainly to solve certain splashes being particularly annoying. Rather than redoing the whole splash system to make it more annoying for people who don't know about the button, address the annoying splashes and make them easier to avoid. The two annoying ones he named were the "Cancelled" one for settings (which seems fairly easy to avoid to me, so I didn't have any ideas for) and "Nothing to Resume" (which also seems easy to avoid to me - remember if your playlist ended, but I also suggested what got committed as a basic example of providing feedback that the playlist is empty before someone tries to resume it, instead of waiting until after). We show or hide the recent bookmarks entry (if I recall correctly) based on certain conditions. I don't see that showing or hiding the resume entry will be much of a problem. Most people use the resume button anyway, but the absence of the entry will provide a clue that people will quickly associate. A third sort of option could be a playlist position indicator in the status bar. The usual [current track / total tracks] or possibly "Filename.m3u8". There's probably a dozen other alternatives that can be explored in this general range of ideas, but my original point had been "we should try to identify what problem we're solving before we apply large, broad solutions." Received on 2009-06-16 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |