Support and General Use > User Interface and Voice
returning to "now playing" screen
bblackmoor:
--- Quote from: frause on June 11, 2007, 02:01:42 PM ---...having a timeout doesn't eliminate the need for a dedicated button. You still have the "I want to go to WPS *NOW* situation"
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I agree with that completely, of course.
bblackmoor:
--- Quote from: GodEater on June 11, 2007, 02:23:54 PM ---What an over generalisation
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It is a generalization, but that is because it is generally true. Even the antique IBM monitor I am using at the moment does this. I push the "contrast" button. The "Contrast" overlay shows in the middle of the screen. I wait a few seconds without touching the monitor. The overlay goes away. This is normal, virtually universal, behavior on any device with a screen and menus.
I am sure that there are exceptions, of course. There are exceptions to everything. And I am sure that, as with anything, people's preferences will differ, and there is nothing wrong with that. But surely we can agree that it would be a user-friendly option to provide? After all, most users don't install Rockbox to look at the "database settings" screen, do they? I would have thought that most people install it to play music. That seems a fairly reasonable assumption to me, at any rate.
But it's a small matter. One extra button-press is not a huge issue. I am sure that the people who contribute their time to the project have much bigger fish to fry.
Llorean:
A monitor is a completely unrelated case.
A monitor display an input from somewhere else. The menu is device adjustment, rather than relating to what's showing on the screen. Basically, the monitor, and the device it's connected to, have to share a screen. If the monitor had a second screen, just for the menu, there'd be no reason at all for it to reset on idle because it wouldn't be conflicting with anything.
bblackmoor:
--- Quote from: Llorean on June 11, 2007, 03:29:26 PM ---If the monitor had a second screen, just for the menu, there'd be no reason at all for it to reset on idle because it wouldn't be conflicting with anything.
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I suppose that's true. If iPods had two screens, it would cease to be a concern.
Llorean:
Thank you for missing the entire point of comparison.
On a monitor, the menu controls the device, rather than the menu controlling the input software.
On the iPod, the menu controls the whole of the software, which is in control of the device.
Tell me, when you open "Control Panel" in windows (or your operating system neutral equivalent), does it disappear after 15 seconds? That's a much more valid comparison, since the menu is in the software driving the display, rather than being an arbitrary part of the display independent of the software.
I imagine if you hook your iPod up to a monitor with a composite to VGA adapter (in the retail firmware, since ours doesn't support the video out yet), you'll find the monitor's menu still disappears just fine.
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