From: Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 00:59:36 -0500

Is it really necessary to have an icon to tell whether a menu function
can be assigned to a hotkey?

We don't have one for if they can be assigned to a quickscreen, and it's
fairly easy to be able to check if an option can be assigned to a hotkey
very quickly. Not to mention if someone changes the hotkey often, they
will likely remember which functions they use it on.

It seems simply additional bloat for a feature that's very unnecessary,
especially given the significant binsize increase from the patch.

Not to mention there's no added manual description for what these new
visuals mean, so it's completely useless to the user anyway except to
figure it out by trial and error.

The patch didn't even exist on the tracker for longer than a day before
committing, and the author noted in IRC shortly after the commit that it
seemed to have something wrong (the huge RAM usage increase) and left it
in Rockbox, going to sleep rather than staying to fix it, or reverting
it to come back later. Is there some reason it couldn't have been
removed when it immediately didn't cause the expected result? It just
seems to me that a patch that is definitely not working quite right
shouldn't just be left applied for later when you know immediately
something is wrong.
Received on 2010-05-07