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Proposition: SimpleBox
keuleJ:
Here are a couple of my humble ideas:
* make a "main menu"
* Browse files
* WPS (Maybe now playing or something)
* Radio
* Recording
* Settings
* Browse Plugins
* Play Button always goes to WPS
* Rec Button always goes to Recording
Of course you could configure that on startup, you go to the main menu (default) or to WPS, WRS, Radio
belly917:
--- Quote from: keuleJ on September 22, 2006, 02:55:32 AM ---Here are a couple of my humble ideas:
* make a "main menu"
* Browse files
* WPS (Maybe now playing or something)
* Radio
* Recording
* Settings
* Browse Plugins
* Play Button always goes to WPS
* Rec Button always goes to Recording
Of course you could configure that on startup, you go to the main menu (default) or to WPS, WRS, Radio
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I'd have to agree with keuleJ, while I've never had problem navigating the interface of rockbox, it's always bothered me that having the entry point for the radio or the recording screen in the settings menu seemed like an afterthought. I understand that the radio or recording is not available on all rockbox targets so this menu may only consist of 4 items in some instances.
Of course this opens up some new questions:
Is the WPS also for the radio play & recording now?
What happens when you press navi* in the WPS?
Does pressing the a/b* button anywhere bring you back to the main menu?"
*iriver buttons used for example
--- Quote from: tucoz on September 21, 2006, 12:14:55 PM ---........Also a lot to be done with the first impression of rockbox. And a simple fix to that is to provide a demo.cfg with a prettier wps, larger font etc. ..........
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First impressions are very important, and while some techno-geeks such as myself can see the benefits of the features of rockbox, there are alot of users who get hung up on glitzy things, and even if they understand the benefit of extra features, they get caught up on the default screen being "ugly".
I propose that rockbox hosts a "default rockbox color wps" design competition. This wps should scale well across all the color targets and would present an initial unified front to the new rockbox user community. (this is something I've been wanting to attempt myself for a while, but recently all my attention has been trying to get my mythtv box to work!)
a little more than 2 cents, but I hope it's useful
Llorean:
Actually, there is an included WPS that looks pretty good, and works on all targets (including grayscale) except possibly the small H10s. And for some reason, being early in the morning, its name has completely dropped from my mind.
One of the core concepts of Rockbox is that it's based around the filetree (or tagcache browser) and that the WPS is a layer on top of that, not the main screen. Reorganizing it so that you start in the menu, and file browser is an option in there is quite contrary to the conceptual structure of Rockbox as it is currently.
mnhnhyouh:
--- Quote from: belly917 on September 22, 2006, 10:07:03 AM ---
I propose that rockbox hosts a "default rockbox color wps" design competition. This wps should scale well across all the color targets and would present an initial unified front to the new rockbox user community. (this is something I've been wanting to attempt myself for a while, but recently all my attention has been trying to get my mythtv box to work!)
a little more than 2 cents, but I hope it's useful
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Now that, I think, is a *very* good idea.
Llorean, what do you think?
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Llorean:
iCatcher, that was its name. It has versions for nearly all targets, and uses different fonts on many of them so that it's not identical, but rather adapted for each. I personally am not terribly fond of it (since it seems very inspired by the iPod look) but it fits this need.
I certainly wouldn't mind if someone came up with a unique-to-Rockbox WPS that worked on all targets, but I would say that it needs to work on all bitmap displays, not just all color ones.
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