240x320x24 (gigabeat) theme: ROCKboxed--please review and test

[JustJohnny]

I've created my first theme for ROCKbox. I have a 1st gen. Nano, so that is the original target device. I've started modifying it for use on other devices.

The theme is available on the Gigabeat WPS gallery pages of the wiki.

Please try out the theme and let me know what you think.  I'm particularly interested in testing the progress bar icon.

Does the progress bar fill the outline at the end of a song? I was having some difficulties while testing this with the uisimulator.

The inspiration for the theme is the Rockbox logo. Comments are appreciated.


ROCKboxed, version 1.0
Icons along bottom: volume, shuffle, repeat shuffle, play, and battery level.

Other screenshots can be found on my personal website.

[Peter200lx]

I don't have a Gigabeat MP3 player myself, but I think with having a screen that big you might want to include some next song information.

[JustJohnny]

...I think with having a screen that big you might want to include some next song information.

Yes, I agree. The design is a little "too clean" on this screen    I think I'll wait until I've ported the theme to all the architectures before making changes. I don't want to get distracted from my mult-arch. goal.

The more suggestions the better for when I do get back to it. Please keep them coming.

[lexicon]

very nice theme. Have you considered:

 - clock, or date and clock (very useful for many people, and doesn't appear in many wps's)
 - playlist song position / total number of songs in playlist
 - album year can be nice, i.e Album Name (2006)

For some reason I like "time into/total time" + a progress bar, as opposed to "time into...time remaining" + progress bar. But that's the kind of thing that is super easy for users to mod themselves.

To get a visual reference for my ideas, here's what I did to my favorite theme to make it more to my liking:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WpsIpod5g#iPod_Vision_5G_Fresh

This should definitely become the default theme!

[hen3rz]

Nice design, it definitely needs time and date up the top there somewhere theres alot of empty space up there. other wise the design runs smoothly and is very nice good work!

[JustJohnny]

Thanks for the review and compliments lexicon and hen3rz!

I will keep your suggestions in mind during the next design phase.