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haim:
I think that a grid layout (with large icons) of the main menu will be much better, It looks much better, and it's more comfortable.
It will be hard to do that?
(I mean something like this:)

saratoga:

--- Quote from: haim on July 23, 2011, 05:30:31 PM ---I think that a grid layout (with large icons) of the main menu will be much better, It looks much better, and it's more comfortable.
It will be hard to do that?

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If you want to design a new tile based gui I think it would be difficult since the current gui is not well isolated from the rest of rockbox.

[Saint]:
Not terribly difficult...

There's a patch on the tracker that could make this possible (with the appropriate knowledge of Rockbox themeing...) if applied.
I played with it for an hour or so when it was first presented on IRC, and this is definitely possible, but, a reasonable amount of work.


EDIT: However, this would be truly HORRIBLE to use on anything other than a touchscreen device in my opinion.

EDIT 2: There is also a limitation currently that means that text cannot scroll unless its in the "currently selected" viewport, which doesn't seem like much of a big deal...but would be nice to overcome.



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haim:
I don't have enough programming knowledge to do such a thing. The maximum I can do is changing a little something that is already exists but not more than that.
I would like to know if something like this already exists, or if there are any plans to do such a thing soon.

[Saint]:

--- Quote from: haim on July 24, 2011, 02:33:18 AM ---I don't have enough programming knowledge to do such a thing. The maximum I can do is changing a little something that is already exists but not more than that.
I would like to know if something like this already exists, or if there are any plans to do such a thing soon.

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You need not have any programming knowledge at all.

Something like this does already exist, but it not as yet in the official SVN repository and saying it will be at any point in time would be pure speculation.
You are free to set up a development environment and apply the patch and check it out yourself, however, you will need to create a theme that actually uses this new syntax as well.
Simply applying the patch alone will do absolutely nothing at all.


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