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ONGOING DEFAULT THEME CONTEST!!!
soap:
--- Quote from: Llorean on May 29, 2010, 05:25:55 PM ---One option is to just have an icon for stereo that fades for mono (so that you see the faded version when you don't have stereo) so it appears more of a yes/no status than switching between two different things - that way you aren't trying to figure out what the "mono" icon means when you don't have stereo at all - you see instead a faded stereo icon which provides context by being faded relative to the other icons.
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Three dots, arranged horizontally collinear, outer two "lit" while center "dim" for stereo - center "lit" while outer two dim for mono.
Llorean:
That's a very space saving way to do it, but again doesn't translate well to mono screens because the dimmed images won't be there. It does have the idea of a context-establishing dimmed image, though, which I like over all compared to two completely separate images.
soap:
On mono screens make the dot "hollow" for unlit.
Vague Rant:
How well understood is that imagery? I agree with Llorean that the dim/hollow image helps to make it somewhat clearer; perhaps that could be combined with the mono/stereo symbols I described above; have the channel box visible at all times, and light up each dot as necessary. This even allows for having no channels lit when there's no signal.
EDIT: e.g.:
Either the top or bottom rows depending on which conveys the information more clearly; from left to right (though I feel their strength is in this hopefully already being obvious) no channels (when radio is untuned), one channel (mono), two channels (stereo).
soap:
Is that not pretty much what I suggested, VagueRant, except with the "addition" of an unneeded box. (Unneeded since there will never be the extra dimension for channel placement?
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