Support and General Use > User Interface and Voice
Menu reworking
mightybrick:
--- Quote from: ego on August 16, 2006, 12:29:59 PM ---any thoughts on my suggestion that 'sound settings' and 'playback settings' might not be the best way to organize a menu system? that there may be another way, that would group more commonly used settings away from less commonly used settings? something like
Basic-
Volume
Shuffle
Repeat
Bass
Treble
EQ
Crossfade
Crossfade Duration
Replaygain
Crossfeed
Advanced
Balance
Channels
Stereo Width
Play Selected First
Resume on Startup
FF/RW steps
Fade on stop/pause
Auto Change Directory
Anti-Skip and Beep Volume may or may not be better suited to system settings, Optical Recording should be a recording option, and ID3 tag priority should be a display option.
i know if the menus were organized in this way, i would rarely if ever go into the advanced menu once the settings were set up the first time. if other people agree, this or something similar might be worth considering.
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I think this sounds reasonable.
Rincewind:
basic and advanced is a bad idea imho, because it is not objectivly clear what is "advanced" and you would need to remember if you want to set a basic or an advanced setting everytime you want to set an option.
I would like to see the levels how far you have to go inside the menus reduced. that would mean to put more options in the menu root. I use sound settings and playback settings the most, so I think it could be worth discussing about putting playback settings in the root. Personally, playlist settings could go inside general settings. I actually go inside general settings very often to set some playlist stuff and have to remember that these settings aren't there...
Some other minor suggestions I like to repeat here:
- Sleep timer in menu root (it is not actually a "setting", rather a function, so it shouldn't be buried inside general settings -> system)
- "Show recent bookmarks" should only be visibile if you have the setting "keep a list of recent bookmarks" enabled, because otherwise it is completely useless (and on first position!)
Yotto:
Why is sound (The only option on that menu that you never ever ever need to go into, as it's easier and more logical to do it from the WPS) the first option on the sound menu? Is the iPod (the only DAP I've used) the only target that allows you to change the volume from the WPS? If not, shouldn't volume be the LAST option on the menu, and something a bit more likely to be chosen get the first spot?
The first spot should be where the single most used feature goes. That way, it's the easiest to get to.
aliask:
I completely agree with Rincewind, on all counts.
@Yotto:
Some people seem to use the Sound Settings menu a lot - and don't even want it moved from the top-level menu - so clearly it does get used by some people. The least I can do it leave it at the top so they don't whinge too much ;)
I've updated the wiki page that Febs linked. Once again, I encourage as much input as possible on the topic.
keuleJ:
I know I maybe repeat myself. But what do you think about a menu item where you could get to the wps?
Why are the recording screen and the fm radio menu items while the wps isn't? This doesn't seem logical to me. For me these three screens (wps, recording and radio) should somehow be treated similarily.
You can get to the menu from the file browser, too.
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