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Pause & adjust volume when locked?

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gellfex:

--- Quote from: BigBambi on November 24, 2008, 02:10:38 PM ---So originally there were things wrong with Rockbox as the developers were obsessed with the ipod, and now what is wrong is that the developers didn't look at the ipod?
It can't be both...
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Why not? there's more than one way to reach most conclusions, whether right or wrong. In this case neither methods described surveys the field to see what works well or doesn't. Product design history is littered with losing (or even bad) products that had certain great features.  It does stretch the imagination a little to believe that people would develop a new firmware for a device they'd never used, or at least never tried a model by the market leader, but I'll take your word for it.

I find it pretty funny that you both think if I patch it I should come back. Why would I do that when the idea is so "not right for Rockbox"? (whatever that means if not 'we don't like it') Clearly I'm something of a masochist staying this long into this thread, but if I do it, I'll take it to unofficial Rockbox build sites, like the folks at anythingbutipod's rockbox forums.

Llorean:
At this point it seems like you're willfully trying to misinterpret things.

It's pretty clear it's our opinion it's not right for Rockbox. As I've also quite clearly said, a patch to demonstrate it could change minds.

You're the one assuming it's impossible for minds to change, when one of the people whose minds you might want to change is openly saying he's willing to look at what you've got. When you start behaving like this it just reinforces the image that you're here simply to argue, rather than having any real interest.

As to
--- Quote ---It does stretch the imagination a little to believe that people would develop a new firmware for a device they'd never used
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if you were at all familiar with the history of Rockbox it was originally developed for old Archos devices. And, very much like many applications, has moved forward to new hardware but is the same application. So the UI principals have been updated and adjusted over time, but their origins and fundamentals lay quite firmly rooted quite some time ago. Nobody ever said that it was developed for hardware never used, nor does having a desire to use the hardware necessitate having used the original firmware (iPodLinux existed before Rockbox came to iPods, and most of the Rockbox devs thoroughly dislike the Apple firmware).

It would pay you to do a little research into the history of the project instead of making sweeping assumptions based off of very limited statements that do not mean nearly as broad a thing as you seem to think they do. Or at least, if you don't feel like looking into the history, stop expanding statements well beyond their bounds.

Frankly, as you've made it clear you have no interest in actually seeing this idea in the official version of Rockbox, though, it's time to close this thread. It can still inspire someone without you jumping to conclusions left and right in it.

saratoga:

--- Quote from: gellfex on November 24, 2008, 04:14:40 PM ---I wouldn't have the faintest idea where to start on doing this myself. The last time I programmed was 25 years ago in an intro to Fortran course!

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--- Quote from: gellfex on November 24, 2008, 04:14:40 PM ---I find it pretty funny that you both think if I patch it I should come back.

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lol.  I don't think anyone expects you to come back with a patch.

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