more ambitious

[AlexP]

For the moment, I don't think to have sufficient free time to study the rockbox code core and produce patches.

And this is why it doesn't change.  If you don't want to spend your free time on something you want, why should someone else spend their free time on it for you.

and not only by geeks.

Please stop calling us all geeks.  I know some people revel in it, but I don't.

May be a large adoption of rockbox by no powerful users, with help from friends of course, sensibilise them to open source, and open source formats.

I'm afraid I don't understand this sentance.

Seriously, I don't think anyone is properly upset!  We would all (nearly) like a nicer interface (personally I'm fine with the current one, but were someone to improve it I wouldn't complain), but if the people who think the interface is rubbish aren't willing to spend the time to help improve it, nothing is going to happen.

[melancholydm]

is it really necessary to change the menu layout? for me it is 99% perfect (-1 since i dont use the recording function).

[MU4L]

That is to my own detriment, seeing as the largest (non-modified) capacity available on a Rockbox target is 80GB whilst my collection tops 120GB.

The Archos hard disk players take 2.5" disks

Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK the Archos' don't have Parametric Equalisers, do they   ?

[LambdaCalculus]

is it really necessary to change the menu layout? for me it is 99% perfect (-1 since i dont use the recording function).

Same here. I don't use my iPod for recording; that's what my Archos is for. I'm perfectly fine with the menu layout Rockbox has right now; everything's laid out very logically, and nothing is inaccessible.

So why reinvent fire and the wheel when others have done it already, and got it right the first time?

MU4L: I see Super Bass and various settings for MDB on my Jukebox Recorder, but no equalizer settings. So I guess the answer's no.

[MU4L]

Bummer. I was living in hope that there may've been a (relatively) cheap alternative to the Classic.

Oh well. Chopping and changing (my music) it remains   ...

[Rincewind]

I have a little idea how the settings menu could be rearanged which reduces at least one level of depth.
A problem right now is finding good and short names for my new categories and balancing everything. My main goal is having an evenly distributed tree.

I don't think that a redesign on paper convinces anyone to code it up, that's why i want to do it in the (sim)code before presenting it. JdGordon pointed it out, it is not very hard to rearange the menu entries in the code to play with it.