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Discussion about the future use of the Record button

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Rincewind:
I would like to start a discussion about the future use of the record button on Hxx series.

At the moment the button does nothing in WPS, nothing in File Tree and nothing in menus. There are some patches around that use the record button to view the sncviewer, to access album art, queue songs etc...
I wrote a patch ("Record button configuration") that enables you to choose what the record button does via a settings menu entry.

I heard that some people think that the record button shouldn't be configurable by the user and that it should have a purpose that has to be agreed on.

My opinion is, that customization is a good thing that sets rockbox apart from other firmwares (WPS!). There are so many ideas from users how this additional button that iriver gave us should be used that I think that most users are happy if we give them some actions to choose from.

I would like to hear ideas and suggestions especially from developers.
If a solution can be found in this thread, then I won't argue about my patch again  ;D.

Llorean:
The way I see it, Record is NOT an extra button. 'Extra' describes buttons like the F1 - F3 soft buttons on the Archos devices. And even those have hard-coded functions in Rockbox, the quick menus.

XavierGr:
We have to decide on the usability of buttons.
I don't like keys that do nothing, IMHO it is a waste.

On the other hand configurable buttons is a big story, that needs adrressing in many aspects of Rockbox. I can't say, though, that I am against it or with it.

As I said earlier in a previous thread, I think that keymaps must be discussed from scratch. Too many buttons, so many functions. So we need to talk about it.

Llorean:
I think that if there is *any* configurability, it should be very, very limited. Like, perhaps for Record, short-press is Record and Long-press is FM, but those can be swapped. For people who will never use their device for recording. But even that seems unnecessary, since a long press isn't particularly harder than a short.

Mikerman:
This one seems easy to me:  quick press, A-B (the current process is too cumbersome); long press, record.  Or, with a configurable option.

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