Re: Touchscreen Interface

2009-11-11 Thread Nikita Koptelov
Paul Louden wrote: I think that if absolute mode is made the default, there needs to be a way to force entry to grid mode blindly. The problem with absolute mode is that if you are using the player blindly, you can't even use descriptions of the menus to find your way easily to grid mode.

Re: Touchscreen Interface

2009-11-09 Thread Thomas Lloyd
Keeping on the idea of touch screen accessibility, could there be a set-up process, after the first install the device be set-up in grid mode, and the user be presented with an option to use grid or absolute depending if they push the top of the screen or the bottom section? Could that be

Touchscreen Interface

2009-11-08 Thread Rob Purchase
Hi all, I want to get some discussion going and clarification about the future direction of the touchscreen interface in Rockbox. The current situation is rather unsatisfactory: - the user has a choice of two modes: 3x3 grid or absolute (ie. real touch mode) in menus and WPS - many screens

Re: Touchscreen Interface

2009-11-08 Thread Alex Parker
From a purely user point of view, grid mode should stay. However, absolute mode should be extended to all screens (where it makes sense), and absolute mode should be the default. Note I make no comment on the code aspects. :) Alex

Re: Touchscreen Interface

2009-11-08 Thread Paul Louden
Alex Parker wrote: From a purely user point of view, grid mode should stay. However, absolute mode should be extended to all screens (where it makes sense), and absolute mode should be the default. Note I make no comment on the code aspects. :) Alex I think that if absolute mode is made

Re: Touchscreen Interface

2009-11-08 Thread Michael Chicoine
I think that grid mode would need to stay as accessibility feature. If it is decided that grid mode is not the default mode, there must be a way to switch to grid mode by means other than the touchscreen. I also think that an indication of some sort to signify when in grid mode would be a good

Re: Touchscreen Interface

2009-11-08 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 04:30:05PM +, Rob Purchase wrote: Hi all, I want to get some discussion going and clarification about the future direction of the touchscreen interface in Rockbox. The current situation is rather unsatisfactory: - the user has a choice of two modes: 3x3 grid

Re: Touchscreen Interface

2009-11-08 Thread Rob Purchase
On 08/11/2009 17:37, Thomas Martitz wrote: I think that the grid mode is silently turned on in some places is a real problem. There really ought to be an indication. I think a graphical grid that is always drawn when the grid mode is on would be really useful and handy. It could be also only

Re: Touchscreen Interface

2009-11-08 Thread Jonathan Gordon
I'm not getting into this argument again (other than to say that grid mode sucks, and if a user is given a touchscreen they always assume it would be in stylus mode.. so that should be default)... 2009/11/8 Rob Purchase rob.purch...@googlemail.com: Might it be better to add something to

Re: Touchscreen Interface

2009-11-08 Thread Rob Purchase
On 08/11/2009 18:23, Paul Louden wrote: Alex Parker wrote: From a purely user point of view, grid mode should stay. However, absolute mode should be extended to all screens (where it makes sense), and absolute mode should be the default. Note I make no comment on the code aspects. :) I