Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas
Instead of static usb picture, a bigger charge status indicator
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: seamoon on January 09, 2011, 04:47:08 PM ---Also writing icon is too small, bigger animation would protect us against unplugging the device while writing.
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I have two problems with this:
1. "Too small" is not really saying much since the "size" heavily depends on the player. On my Ipod Mini for example I find the icon big enough, while on the Gigabeat S (which has a much larger screen) it's quite small.
2. You should *always* safely remove the player from the PC. Just waiting that it doesn't show any "writing data" icon isn't enough since the OS can (and likely will) cache stuff on the disk (most likely the FAT), and when writing data, then unplugging when it's "written" might loose cached data that not necessarily had been written back at that time (the icon only shows if there is currently disk activity, it cannot know if there is cached data on the PC that needs to be written back). This is an issue with the PC and is also true for other removeable drives like USB Pen drives, external hard disks etc and nothing Rockbox can do anything about.
seamoon:
--- Quote --- "Too small" is not really saying much since the "size" heavily depends on the player.
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Big enough like in the example picture would fits everybody's standards.
--- Quote ---and nothing Rockbox can do anything about.
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A big "writing" icon is exactly for this.
Llorean:
--- Quote from: seamoon on January 12, 2011, 05:15:25 PM ---
--- Quote ---and nothing Rockbox can do anything about.
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A big "writing" icon is exactly for this.
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You seem to have misunderstood. A larger icon won't help - even if it's not writing, and you can tell because of the icon, that does NOT mean it's safe to remove. Instead, properly eject. Then the icon doesn't matter, and you won't get it wrong.
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: seamoon on January 12, 2011, 05:15:25 PM ---
--- Quote ---and nothing Rockbox can do anything about.
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A big "writing" icon is exactly for this.
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No.
Well, there is something Rockbox might be able to do about the disconnecting issue: drop the USB icon and replace it with a huge "do not disconnect" icon like the Apple firmware does, and show that until the device is properly ejected. However, even for the Apple firmware that doesn't work in all cases (it works fine for their setup -- that is when using Itunes on the PC / Mac), so I don't think there is a standard way to tell the player that the host has done a safe disconnect. So that is kinda pointless again, and means back to square one: nothing Rockbox can do anything about.
If you chose to ignore how the hardware works and how you have to handle it feel free to do so, but expect bad things to happen some time.
torne:
There are a variety of standard ways for the host to tell the device it's done a safe disconnect :)
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