Re: [slim] SBC Acceleration enhancement proposal
See also this old thread - and the references to Dasher. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41816&highlight=dasher&page=3 -- Paul Webster Paul Webster http://www.lastfm.com/user/BondJamesBond Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46847 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SBC Acceleration enhancement proposal
in a future hardware revision they could include a button at the top and bottom of the wheel under the wheel itself, and that'd be up and down, and each depress could go whole letters, or multiple letters by option. -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 (primary) / SBR (secondary) / SBC - w/SC 7.0.1beta - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46847 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SBC Acceleration enhancement proposal
Peter, nice one, thanks. Don't know why I thought it wouldn't go backwards (old Roku issue, perhaps). Nevertheless, my point still stands, as getting to the middle of the alphabet can be tedious:-) -- adrianr Former Roku owner (SB died!), now a very happy Duet user, Musical Fidelity X-DAC v3 & X-PSU adrianr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16258 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46847 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SBC Acceleration enhancement proposal
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:36:42 -0700, "adrianr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Personally, I have far more than 100 artists. The current result is > that to get to Z I need to spin my finger-tip like crazy for quite a > > Any one else have better ideas? Yeah, scroll the other way around and get to Z almost instantly. ;) Regards, Peter ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] SBC Acceleration enhancement proposal
This is certainly a good idea, although there may be other ways to make the wheel more practical. Personally, I have far more than 100 artists. The current result is that to get to Z I need to spin my finger-tip like crazy for quite a while, and if I slip (must be getting old:-) ), I have to wait for it to speed up again. For me, a simple solution would be to have a small range of speed increments for slow browsing, with faster 'wheeling' simply advancing one letter of the alphabet every quarter second. I would then quickly be able to advance to the start letter, and use the slow mode to find my target. Pretty much the way we use one of those dictionaries with tabbed pages. Any one else have better ideas? -- adrianr Former Roku owner (SB died!), now a very happy Duet user, Musical Fidelity X-DAC v3 & X-PSU adrianr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16258 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46847 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
[slim] SBC Acceleration enhancement proposal
and suggestion for new a acronym, YAAP - Yet Another Acceleration Proposal The SBC wheel acceleration/handling has come a long way, and is fairly good today. To make the user experience better I suggest: 1. Give some visual indication of the acceleration level. This would a) make it easier to learn how fast/slow long/short spinning of the wheel correlates with actual scrolling speed b) make it easier to speed up and slown down c) give a better user experience since instead of turning the wheel blindly, the user knows what is going on. The scroll bar is not good enough for this. One idea could be some kind of meter/gauge. E.g. an overlayed stack of horisontal bars. 2. Instead of just a fixed length prefix popup (i.e. the big letter), use a variable prefix length popup, and make it depend of the length of the list it represents. E.g. if I have 100 artists under A, and 20 under B. scrolling under A should not only show A, but also An, for e.g. Anabolic through Anxiety. What do you say? Reasonable? Useful? If so I'll file a bug unless one exists. B. -- bhaagensen bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46847 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
