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kanebt:
Why would so many people be against this?  ???

I think it would be fantastic to have good graphic effects in rockbox!!! Just simple things like he mentioned, smooth scrollbar and such:D

AlexP:
As I said, the danger is that it slows down navigation just for some fancy visual effect.  I personally don't want to wait for for the next menu after pressing a button whilst some pointless visual thing happens, I would find it annoying.  However, if you can find a way to make it look nicer, and yet retain fast navigation then I'm sure people would love to hear about it - I certainly would.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: kanebt on January 06, 2009, 02:20:14 AM ---Why would so many people be against this?  ???

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Because it is annoying. It slows down navigation (hey, I frequently scroll through a rather longish list on my Ipod and it works perfectly without any effects stuff) and doesn't add anything to the functionality -- I, for myself, do want a good, fast player, not fancy bling-bling that doesn't play music (does a smooth scroll bar play music?). Also, having the CPU doing calculation just for bling-bling eats battery, and one goal is to achive the highest possible battery runtime possible. Of course there is always a trade-off between fanciness and doing as less calculations as necessary, but this makes it at least very hard for really fancy stuff.
Also, you always need to take the older supported targets into consideration -- a smooth scroll bar would make e.g. the display completely unreadable on h100 due to their slow LCD. While it's possible to have "nice" features only on players that can actually have them in a useable state this adds even more complexity. Rockbox is already complex enough (>500LOC in C according to ohloh) ...

cool_walking_:

--- Quote from: bluebrother on January 06, 2009, 05:36:18 AM --->500LOC
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Wow, that must be some very efficient code!! :D

I'm against any sort of useless eye candy also, and a smooth highlight bar is even worse than just being useless - it actually slows down navigation.

GodEater:

--- Quote from: cool_walking_ on January 07, 2009, 12:35:05 AM ---Wow, that must be some very efficient code!! :D

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They're either REALLY long lines, or bluebrother meant 500K LOC ;)

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