Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-11-12 Thread pondlife
Personally, I'd like the quickscreen to be a shortcut to Browse CFG files - but while very flexible that's probably not simple enough for most users. pondlife

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-11-12 Thread Marc Guay
Personally, I'd like the quickscreen to be a shortcut to Browse CFG files - but while very flexible that's probably not simple enough for most users. If a few samples were included (i.e. shuffle_on.cfg, shuffle_off.cfg,), it would perhaps make it a bit more user-friendly, but extremely bulky

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-11-12 Thread Jonathan Gordon
2008/11/13 Marc Guay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If the Add to shortcuts function could be applied to settings as well as files, it could act as a bridge between these two ideas and perhaps be the current quickscreen, but presented as a menu list (I've seen bluebrother suggest this on several

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-11-02 Thread alex wallis
wouldn't a customizable quickscreen a step towards customizable buttons and menus, which we don't want (or at least didn't want in the past)? Users will start to question why they can customize the quickscreen but not the menus. By adding a customizable quickscreen we will make our arguments

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-11-01 Thread Jonathan Gordon
2008/11/1 Dominik Riebeling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: True. My reasoning behind this question is more general: won't that open some can of worms in respect of arguing about customizable menus though? I dont tihnk it will open a can or worms, but even if it did, I think all commiters agree with the no

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-11-01 Thread Thomas Martitz
Jonathan Gordon schrieb: This is the feeling im getting also, the screen is mostly useless and I think its because of the 3 options that are available. I would have no problem removing the screen, but its there now (and has been for years) and this patch would probably make the screen actually

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-11-01 Thread Xinlu H
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Dominik Riebeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In that case, shouldn't we also consider dropping the quick menu completely? The main idea of changing a setting with a key combo instead of entering a menu isn't working on most players at all. (And I use the

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-11-01 Thread Simon M.
wouldn't a customizable quickscreen a step towards customizable buttons and menus, which we don't want (or at least didn't want in the past)? Users will start to question why they can customize the quickscreen but not the menus. By adding a customizable quickscreen we will make our arguments

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-11-01 Thread Dominik Riebeling
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Xinlu H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Dominik Riebeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In that case, shouldn't we also consider dropping the quick menu completely? The main idea of changing a setting with a key combo instead of entering a

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-11-01 Thread Dominik Riebeling
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Simon M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dominik, you can be sure that I won't use the custom quickscreen as an argument to bring my rec button config patch back in. It is really sad Rest assured that I didn't even _think_ about that patch when writing my concerns of a

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-11-01 Thread Thomas Martitz
Dominik Riebeling schrieb: If we want to go for a customizable menu, why not remove the quickscreen and have a dedicated user menu where users can set any number of setting shortcuts? That menu could be entered the same way the quickscreen is currently entered but would allow for more settings.

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-11-01 Thread Paul Louden
Thomas Martitz wrote: I use the quickscreen frequently and would love to see it configurable, so I'm all for it. That probably up to another task, but how about a 4th option (for targets which have enough buttons)? I think preserving the way the quickscreen currently works (this applies to

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-11-01 Thread Thomas Martitz
Paul Louden schrieb: Personally I'd rather see that than customizability, but as long as the customizability doesn't make its return impossible, I don't mind too much. Of course I implied that there's a button left to exit the screen in (for targets which have enough buttons)

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-11-01 Thread Paul Louden
Thomas Martitz wrote: Paul Louden schrieb: Personally I'd rather see that than customizability, but as long as the customizability doesn't make its return impossible, I don't mind too much. Of course I implied that there's a button left to exit the screen in (for targets which have enough

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-10-31 Thread Linus Nielsen Feltzing
Jonathan Gordon wrote: Hey all, OK, I think this patch is finished and working so I want to commit it next week sometime... Going by the quick talk in IRC it doesn't look like there will be much complaints, but speak now if you want to... It gets my blessing. :-) Linus

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-10-31 Thread alex wallis
Jonathan Gordon wrote: Hey all, OK, I think this patch is finished and working so I want to commit it next week sometime... Going by the quick talk in IRC it doesn't look like there will be much complaints, but speak now if you want to... Hi. just wondering, i'm not fully clear on this, how

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-10-31 Thread Dominik Riebeling
Hi, wouldn't a customizable quickscreen a step towards customizable buttons and menus, which we don't want (or at least didn't want in the past)? Users will start to question why they can customize the quickscreen but not the menus. By adding a customizable quickscreen we will make our arguments

Re: FS#9515 - custom quickscreen... want to commit...

2008-10-31 Thread Dominik Riebeling
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Frank Gevaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there is a big difference : whatever you do with the quickscreen, you'll still be able to use the player normally. True. My reasoning behind this question is more general: won't that open some can of worms in