Support and General Use > User Interface and Voice
Pressing LEFT to get to WPS from file root
Bagder:
--- Quote from: djray on November 03, 2005, 12:16:27 PM ---oohhh... i wouldn't like the NAVI-press as pause... the way NAVI-press is now is good.
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Personally I dislike how I soooo often end up in the dir browser when I try to change the volume by using the NAVI key while my iriver is in my pocket.
len0x:
--- Quote from: LinusN on November 03, 2005, 07:54:50 AM ---I think a consistent button scheme is important.
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One may argue that LEFT to WPS would be in fact consitent behaviour because in ALL in other cases that I could find it returns back to WPS or radio WPS: context menus, radio presets etc...
How about having a special group in settings called "RB navigation" where all those "weird" options can reside? :)
LinusN:
--- Quote from: len0x on November 03, 2005, 02:47:40 PM ---One may argue that LEFT to WPS would be in fact consitent behaviour because in ALL in other cases that I could find it returns back to WPS or radio WPS: context menus, radio presets etc...
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Maybe we're getting somewhere here. It seems like most of the iriver users have a notion of WPS being the "main" screen, and keep talking of getting "back" to the WPS.
In Rockbox, the WPS is not the main screen, the browser is.
When it comes to menus, context menus, presets etc, they don't return to the WPS, they return to the parent that called them. The context menu returns to the context from which it was called, be it the browser, the WPS or whatever.
len0x:
That is a very good point and I agree in principle but as you said:
--- Quote ---It seems like most of the iriver users have a notion of WPS being the "main" screen, and keep talking of getting "back" to the WPS.
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So its only gonna get worse as the army of iRiver users would install RB when its officially released. So why not make it easier for newcomers and make their first experience more pleasant? It just seems unnatural trying to avoid putting in a feature that doesn't bring technical problems and makes users happy just because trying to keep RB "different".Â
LinusN:
This is not about trying to keep Rockbox different. Rockbox has been like this for years, and that doesn't automatically change because we port to another platform. Rockbox is not about mimicking other firmwares. It's a firmware of its own.
And adding the left-to-wps does add problems, as I have described in my earlier posts. It makes blind navigation harder.
Also, I sincerely doubt that the lack of left-to-wps will make the Rockbox experience that much more unpleasant.
Still, I recall that we did some minor adjustments to Rockbox back in the early Archos days, to make it work more like the original firmware. IIRC, the "follow playlist" option was added just because of that.
I can live with an option for this, as long as it's off by default (to make it easier for blind people, that's why the Voice features are on by default). I just think it's a quite unnecessary option, we should be able to find an easier way of handling the browser<->wps toggling.
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