Support and General Use > User Interface and Voice
Menu reworking
fml2:
--- Quote from: keuleJ on August 17, 2006, 03:36:14 AM ---... For me these three screens (wps, recording and radio) should somehow be treated similarily.
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Exactly this is the reason why I made a patch (FS#5049) to treat that screens similarly after start up (with a side effect of reducing the number of menu entries by one). The patch isn't completed yet. Any help is appreciated.
Rincewind:
how about putting "view current playlist" in the root of the main menu?
My argument for this goes like this: View current playlist is an important screen (if we agree that rockbox is a playlist based player) and should be nearly as easily accessible as the file browser.
On many units there are no buttons left, so I think it deserves a prominent place in the main menu and the wps and browser context menus (I know it is there, but not at top level).
On the irivers I suggest using a short press of record button to view the current playlist and long press of rec for recording screen.
A general thing: the menus are not in an organized order right now, entries were added at the bottom or inserted when new functions came. I would suggest to order entries with the priority that most used features should come first. Maybe a few polls on controversial priorities. Most things should be clear, for instance, in general settings -> system, battery comes first but you only use this if you happen to change your battery, roughly once a year if ever.
Febs:
I wonder if it wouldn't be more useable if it menus were in alphabetical order.
bascule:
--- Quote from: Febs on August 17, 2006, 02:38:48 PM ---I wonder if it wouldn't be more useable if it menus were in alphabetical order.
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More consistent, but surely not more usable.
In concordance with other views expressed here, most-used functions should be at the top of their respective menus. In particular, I would like to get to View Current Playlist even quicker than I currently can...
I know it would be difficult to support and potentially hazardous for the 'WTF!!1! i changed the menus and now i cant use my ipod rockbox is crap' user, but I really like the idea of a config file for menus so I could design my own. I already re-wrote the tagnavi.config to suit myself and I'm really happy with it.
It seems to me that, with a suitable key combination to restore menus to a default, that it would give the best of bothe worlds - those that fiddle, can; those that like it simple, leave it alone...
Rincewind:
--- Quote from: Febs on August 17, 2006, 02:38:48 PM ---I wonder if it wouldn't be more useable if it menus were in alphabetical order.
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I disagree, a similar idea would be to have short entries first so that the screen looks nice...
alphabetical is only a superficial order which doesn't make sense to me if we only have about 10 menu entries in each menu.
in a .cfg file alphabetical order seems logial to me, because there are all entries at one level.
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