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Alright, I know RockBox for H10 is nowhere near the level that is is on other platforms, and it will be some time before it is. However, I would like to put forth a suggestion, and an outline along with it. I am by far one of the least technical people on the moderating staff, and my experience and know how with RockBox is limited. I'm sure the same can be said for the majority of the MisticRiver community. Therefore, I am proposing a less complicated approach to RockBox, that will hopefully increase awareness and usage.Notes: All buttons below refer to the iRiver H10, but SimpleBox will hopefully be able to be used on all RockBox supported players.The Idea: Have an offshoot of RockBox, called SimpleBox. SimpleBox would run on the same code as RockBox, but would offer a much simpler, streamlined approach to the interface.The Plan: Let's face it. The majority of us don't use/don't know how to use the majority of the features of RockBox. SimpleBox would streamline the interface, and focus on simplifying the UI of the player, but including some of the more sought-after features RockBox adds to the original firmware. Creating a simple, graphical main menu, with sections like 'Music', 'Pictures', 'Radio', 'Recording', 'Text', 'Games' and 'Utilities' (and 'Video' should it become functional with sound) (and 'Settings') would be essential, with it being the same (obviously screen sizes and color restrictions would be taken into account) across all platforms. More advanced equalizer settings would be customizable through the current (iRiver firmware) procedure, and the keymap would be the same. You would be able to change the playback settings/EQ on the fly by holding down the "o" key on the 'Now Playing' screen. Album Art would be available, as would an option to turn it off.On startup, the player would boot to the SimpleBox firmware by default. If so inclined, other firmware could be booted by holding down a button, let's say "<-", during startup. If this button was held, the user would be shown a GRUB style selection screen, with the options "[insert player here; e.g. iRiver; iAudio, etc.] Firmware (and the version of the currently installed iRiver firmware)", and "SimpleBox" (and "RockBox, more below). The user could then pick witch firmware to use.While there would be a cross-platform default skin, here would be other complete "skins" made for SimpleBox (not RockBox), that changed the look of everything from the USB connected screen to the main menu, to the 'Now Playing' screen. These skins would be included with each final build.The Excecution: While RockBox is far away from being optimized for the H10, I believe if we get a team of people commited to SimpleBox to pick and choose features as they become available for RockBox, we could have a functional version of SimpleBox sooner rather than later. Features would only be added to the stable builds once they were absolutely optimized for the [target player] and SimpleBox. Usability would be the main objective of SimpleBox, so only plugins that functioned at 100% would be added, with keymaps that actually made sense (unlike some current RockBox plugins). The plugins would be added to either "Games" (Pong, Snake, etc.), or "Utilities" (Calculator, Stopwatch, etc.). Plugins like "Plasma" or "Fire" would be available through the 'Now Playing' screen's "o" menu (the one where you can change EQ and playback modes), as "screensavers".There will be an optimized build of SimpleBox for each player.I have no coding experience, so I couldn't really contribute to the coding of SimpleBox, but I would test daily builds, and give critiques along the way. I try to spend as little time on MR (and the internet) as possible, but I would try to stay updated until a final version is released.Who's on board, and could we get an official endorsement from RockBox possibly?Edits/Additions: * When booting with "<-" held down, a regular/customized RockBox (non SimpleBox) boot option is added, in addition to iRiver Firmware and SimpleBox * Revised suggestion to add cross-platform compatibility, not only for iRiver H10. Because RockBox is already very stable on other platforms (iRiver H3xx for example), progress could begin on making an H3xx optimized build of RockBox, off of which other builds (for the H10, X5, etc.) would be based, using the same 'Utilities' and 'Games' (as mentioned above).-Adam
we have a IMO pretty good manual (albeit not in very good shape for the h10 yet) and it seems it is very difficult to find it...
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