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Context Menu on Sansa e200 series

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leptonhead:
Is there anyway to adjust the delay on the keys which bring up the context menus to make them longer?  My Mom is getting thoroughly confused when pressing 'select' on a menu item for a fraction of a second too long does something different than normal.  LOL

XavierGr:
No, currently there isn't such an option for that, and I don't think there ever will.
Don't you think that it is quite an overkill to add an option for something so trivial?

I think that the best solution for your mother is to get used with the button timings.
In my opinion there is a great time interval that differentiates long and short press.

leptonhead:
I don't think it's much more trivial than other 'critical' rockbox settings such as beep volume, adjustable wheel light timeouts, clip level hold time, scroll start delay in milliseconds, peak meter release delay, etc.

Whatever the time interval is to bring up the context menu, it's definitely less than a second.  Probably under 500 ms from what I can tell.  A second or more would be nice.

Llorean:
All of the settings you've listed reflect on things that a human can't change without a setting. Whether or not you press the button quickly enough is something you can quite easily change by simply releasing it slightly more quickly.

It's a question of the fact that there are many, many, many, many settings already. We already think there are too many. In this case, a "sane" value was picked. If you don't hold the button down, you don't get a context menu. It's not perfect for everyone, but we really can't put "every possible setting every human being on Earth could want", and much like keymaps, these are cases where a human can compensate for the lack of setting very easily, whereas a human can't make their ears hear the beeps more quietly relative to the audio, etc.

cool_walking_:
Would it be possible to have some sort of advanced configuration functionality that lets you configure pretty much everything, like firefox's about:config? It would not be accessible normally, you'd have to go out of your way to get to it. It could just be a text file that you edit.

EDIT: not a feature request, just "do you think this would be a good idea, and why not?"

I guess too many settings could cause code bloat, and unnecessary processing to check the settings.

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