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Rockboxed - gigabeat - proposed revisions

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jmsunlinenet:
How about something like this? Gets rid of the horrid yellow, almost, but picks up the secondary color of the Rockbox logo and uses it as the screen background for a clean, clear look, then brings back the yellow a bit in the progress bar.

I would want to include the estimated battery time left function as this is very useful if you are thinking of playing a drama or something long and don't have the charger to hand. Most people have wrist watches or cell phones that give time and date, and in cars there is always a clock, so the time and date functions are less crucial, especially as the screen will mostly be dark when playing.

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LinusN:

--- Quote from: jmsunlinenet on March 06, 2007, 10:39:23 AM ---How about something like this? Gets rid of the horrid yellow, almost, but picks up the secondary color of the Rockbox logo and uses it as the screen background for a clean, clear look, then brings back the yellow a bit in the progress bar.

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I like it a lot!!! Much better than the original one.

Llorean:
I like it a lot as well.

jmsunlinenet:
Thanks, and here is another suggestion or two:

The font is loaded from the configuration file, which can easily be edited, so it might make sense to install one default font and then a couple of alternates in the config file as comments like this:

font: /.rockbox/fonts/unifont.fnt
#font: /.rockbox/fonts/alternate1.fnt (this is an alternate font)
#font: /.rockbox/fonts/alternate2.fnt (and this is another font you might like)

because although you can load fonts from the display menu, every time you reload the theme, you have to go looking for that font again, if you can remember what it was. This way, you could pick what font you wanted and have it there permanently.

Then you could do the same thing with the backdrop screens, i.e.  provide them in three or four different colors that work reasonably well, so that they could be changed from the config file if someone really wanted to bother, rather than mess around with the RGB values on the display menu and lose your work if the battery dies on you, etc. Of course, once you have a backdrop in there, you can edit it any way you want with a program like Paint.net while it is on your Gigabeat, so providing a blank backdrop screen for the do-it-yourself type could be useful too.

Then in the WPS file, you might be able to allocate certain spots on the screen to optional functions like estimated battery time left, time and date, or whatever, and give the user some directions as comments on the file that will enable he or she to pick what function or functions they would like to have there.

Now, I am not a programmer, so these are just ideas I am tossing out as to how I, as a retail user, might like to have the appearance of the screen.

bascule:
There's some interesting ideas there, but considering the problems some new users have in even installing a WPS, maybe it would be better to simply provide a number of appropriately-named .cfg files which refer to a numer of different .wps files?

Of course this would be messy in the theme browser:
Rockboxed - original
Rockboxed - clean
Rockboxed - max options
Rockboxed - album art
etc...

It would be good if the theme browser supported tree/folder navigation, then you could have all the Rockboxed variations in a separate place...

I really like the idea of some sort of interactive option setting for a given 'set' of themes, but I'm struggling to see how that can be without the use of some external application/script.

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