Support and General Use > User Interface and Voice
Pressing LEFT to get to WPS from file root
Jonny:
Just a quick suggestion, I don't know whether or not it has been suggested before.
How about modifying the patch so that holding left will scroll to to root and stop there. and an extra left press is then required to go to the WPS. Kind of like how the scrolling in directories works at the moment, the scrolling stops at the last file of the directory and en extra press is required to begin cycling again.
I for one like to hold left when in a directory to return to the root to access playlists or pictures or to reboot. This is now impossible. I would have thought this would also simplify use for blind users since by holding left they will know that they are in the root directory.
This would likely take up more code I suppose but I agree wth Llorean thta the left to WPS must be a togglable option.
fml2:
--- Quote from: Jonny on December 22, 2006, 05:31:45 AM ---How about modifying the patch so that holding left will scroll to to root and stop there. and an extra left press is then required to go to the WPS. Kind of like how the scrolling in directories works at the moment
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This is exactly the way I would expect it to work (if it's enabled). And if it gets integrated into the official build of course :-)
Llorean:
Again: Why do their need to be *two* buttons that go from the filetree root to the WPS?
fml2:
--- Quote from: Llorean on January 19, 2007, 10:47:02 AM ---Again: Why do their need to be *two* buttons that go from the filetree root to the WPS?
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Llorean, I'm probably going to say something that's been said many times (also in this thread) but it's just more convenient to some users on some players. For example, on H120 most of the actions are taken using the joystick. You listen to a song, you want to listen to another. What do you do? Press the joystick (this shows the file browser), you navigate to the other folder and then you decide to stay with the song currenly playing. You can, of course, just press PLAY (and that would be just one press) but you have to use another finger. So some people (me probably included) would compromise the number of key presses for the fact that they can use the same finger (thumb). It's just a matter of preference. It has no rational explanation.
Some users buy white iPods and some get black? Why? Because they prefer it that way. No more, no less.
Llorean:
If it's *just* a matter of idle preference, why do people think Left-to-WPS should go in despite all the actual objections to it? If it were as simple as preference, you'd think people would simply say "Ah well, there are very strong reasons against it, or at least the core devs consider them very strong, and there's a patch for us anyway, so we'll stop pestering them about it."
I mean, you guys have been going on about this patch for ages, despite the core developers telling you very, very clearly why they do not want this feature, and you never really address their concerns instead simply saying "We prefer it this way."
That's why I asked for a reason. I thought: Hey, someone resurrected the long decided issue YET AGAIN, maybe they actually have a real reason.
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