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JdGordon:
What is the actual point of displaying the stereo/mono at all? it doesnt really give any useful information. So because of that I tihnk it would be cleaner to use icons (which are more universal anyway).

I like the idea of the headset a few posts up.

[Saint]:

--- Quote from: JdGordon on May 31, 2010, 05:39:01 AM ---What is the actual point of displaying the stereo/mono at all? it doesn't really give any useful information.
--- End quote ---


--- Quote from: yapper on May 31, 2010, 05:06:18 AM ---How useful is that for non-English speakers?
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I think perhaps there was some form of misunderstanding? The information it gives is surely just as useful as an icon for the same purpose if not more so due to the fact that it has the ability to be translated, and as such is universal.

I didn't literally mean displaying the text "Stereo/Mono" as that would serve absolutely no purpose at all, but instead I meant displaying the word "Stereo" for stereo, and "Mono" for mono.
To me, that makes more sense than an icon, as this discussion seems to have proved that there indeed is not a universal symbol that can be used to represent either mode.

I personally don't think that anything is going to be as clear as text. It requires no extra bitmaps, there is no need for target specific implementation, it will (probably, depending on the font used) take up less screen estate, the strings for Mono and Stereo are already present in the .lang files, and it can be easily translated into the users chosen language using:


--- Code: ---%?ts<%Sx|Stereo||%Sx|Mono|>
--- End code ---
How simple is that?

I also have to say that I'm not a fan of the "headset icon" idea from a few posts back either, to me, if I saw that I would probably assume:

"Oh, what's this icon? It must mean I have my headphones plugged in...Well that's irrelevant, of course I do it's a DAP and I'm listening to FM radio which requires the headphones be plugged in to achieve a sufficient signal"


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mc2739:
The problem I see with using Stereo/Mono as translatable text is that you have no way of knowing how much screen space will be needed to display the string.  If the translated string is not the same width as the English string there will either be too much space allocated or not enough space allocated.  The latter condition will cause the text to be clipped or scrolled, neither of which would look proper for a status indicator.

yapper:
The volume indicator could be modifed to represent two channels, based on the current volume indicator but with a mirrored version behind the original for stereo, and the regular version for mono.

Llorean:
Or we could just insist that the peak meter finally be split so that you can have a pair of peak meters for stereo, and a single one for mono (if we can even do peak meter on Radio, I don't even know).

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