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Pressing LEFT to get to WPS from file root
Mikerman:
All those points are understood and, as I said, harm to anything is a determining point (I only have an iRiver H-1xx and so can't speak to the other players). And bloat also has to be considered--I don't know how much this patch could bullox things with bloat or with potential future complications (even though in and of itself, it is a small patch--who knows what the ripple could result in downstream).
I only mention the 2/3rds point not as a "voting issue" (you're right--the devs win! ;) and there are the other issues noted above some of which people likely weren't aware of) but as an indication that something real seems to be going on here for a substantial group of people--I don't know if it's finger laziness, training by the iRiver firmware, or something psychological (what I suspect)--I find that fascinating from a user/ergonomics perspective.
And do Hebrew users want to press right?
Llorean:
The 'bloat' issue isn't much. It would likely be a VERY small amount of code added. But the question comes "Is that code even worth it, since there's already a perfectly good return-to-wps button that you wouldn't be getting rid of?"
But yeah, I agree in thinking that it's almost definitely psychological. People are used to left being "go back a level" and so if they think of the WPS as the homescreen (as the H100 firmware trains you to do) even with a new firmware, the expectation is that you'll eventually end up at the WPS if you keep hitting left.
Febs:
Not to beat a dead horse, but I honestly believe that there would be a drastic change in the results of that poll if patch 5294 were implemented. Part of the reason that the interface in its current form sometimes feels unintuitive is because play only calls the WPS from certain places in Rockbox (i.e., the File Browser) and not from other places (i.e., the menu system). With patch 5294, the Play button calls the WPS from just about anywhere in Rockbox. This completely unifies the feel of Rockbox navigation.
Llorean:
I agree.
yngwi:
--- Quote from: Febs on July 24, 2006, 09:49:24 PM ---Not to beat a dead horse, but I honestly believe that there would be a drastic change in the results of that poll if patch 5294 were implemented. Part of the reason that the interface in its current form sometimes feels unintuitive is because play only calls the WPS from certain places in Rockbox (i.e., the File Browser) and not from other places (i.e., the menu system). With patch 5294, the Play button calls the WPS from just about anywhere in Rockbox. This completely unifies the feel of Rockbox navigation.
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i for my part would definitely like to see this patch included...
as for the left to wps issue: it makes browsing significantly harder for me because i always accidently press left one time to much, and I'm not even blind...
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