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AlexP:
I think you'll find getting everyone to agree will be a much harder task.  Also, you would need to propose how this would work on all the sizes and types of screens we have, e.g. the clip.

bluebrother:

--- 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.
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I disagree completely.

A grid layout would look *much* worse on several targets -- while it might look good on high resolution colour targets it would look completely crap on other targets. I'm just imagining a grid layout menu on my Ipod Mini (my main player) and there's really a reason why Apple in their firmware didn't use any icons. You won't be able to put the text next to the icons in a useable way on such a target either -- unless you show only a single icon, and that makes navigation much harder. And how would you navigate a grid as in your mockup with a control like the Ipods scrollwheel?

Touchscreen targets are the only ones where it would really make sense, since hitting a line of text can be much harder than hitting an icon with appropriate size.

haim:
[St.] I didnt find it in filespray, can you give me a link?

bluebrother Maybe in small players you can show only a single icon, and in big players a grid?

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: haim on July 24, 2011, 12:55:38 PM ---bluebrother Maybe in small players you can show only a single icon, and in big players a grid?

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Well, you can. Except the Archos Player, which doesn't have a graphical display. And having only a single icon shown makes a menu much harder to use, because you're missing some visual order. So no, I don't think that there's any reasonable way to use an icon-only menu on low-res players. Especially as it might become pretty hard to put an additional text to the icon.

JdGordon:
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/12124 is the patch to do this. Being able to do a grid was the origional motivation behind it and it would be great if you help test it so it can be finished.

Basically, it has had no testing other than myself and 5 min from [St.], i need to know how useable it is and what else needs doing to finish it.

If you are keen to help then come into irc and we can sort out a build for you and get you going.

edit: The patch as it is is pretty capable, you can for example, have a completly different styled list for the file browser than the main menu (which I imagine most people would want if they use a grid for the menu)

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