Re: Patch: Optical Out setting extension for Battery/Charger.
Some people might want to use large fonts when in the car (charger) and smaller fonts when using otherwise, etc. If I may add my 2 cents... a system like this is being used on mobile phones for ages. How about having a menu option 'special cfg files'. If this menu item is selected, track all changes and append them - and only the changed settings - directly to the specified .cfg file (battery, charger). Perhaps an indicator on the screen, or a WPS symbol, can inform the user that this 'special' mode is active. Or would that complicate things too much? Ronald On Sunday 05 March 2006 22:52, gl gl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I totally agree in principle, I just question whether pragmatically this is worth doing at this point and whether it doesn't complicate the UI for not enough benefit? What does everybody else think? Can you think of options other than battery draining features (spdif, backlight) that would be genuinely useful to have seperate batter/charger profiles for? -- gl
Patch: Optical Out setting extension for Battery/Charger.
This extends the 'Optical Output' setting to 'Off / Battery Only / Plugged only / Battery Plugged' on platforms that support it: http://www.rockbox.org/bugs/task/4774 Useful eg. when (like me) you use the optical at home but don't want to waste battery juice on the go. -- gl
Re: Patch: Optical Out setting extension for Battery/Charger.
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, gl wrote: This extends the 'Optical Output' setting to 'Off / Battery Only / Plugged only / Battery Plugged' on platforms that support it: http://www.rockbox.org/bugs/task/4774 I think this calls for a revisit of an old idea: load a custom config file at specific events. Like when running plugged-in etc. That way you could have one config file for when running from the mains power and that could enable optical out, while the standard config would have it disabled. Having options doing this magic on their own seems like the wrong way to go. Or am I missing something? -- Daniel Stenberg -- http://www.rockbox.org/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/
Re: Patch: Optical Out setting extension for Battery/Charger.
I think this calls for a revisit of an old idea: load a custom config file at specific events. Like when running plugged-in etc. That way you could have one config file for when running from the mains power and that could enable optical out, while the standard config would have it disabled. Having options doing this magic on their own seems like the wrong way to go. Or am I missing something? A generic internal way to update specific settings based on power changes could be useful. However I don't think simply loading two complete cfg files is the way to go if that's what you're suggesting - most settings don't need seperate battery/charger options. The spdif out is unusual in that battery power is affected if it's enabled. As far as the UI is concerned, I think it's much cleaner to just enable setting menus for battery/charger use as I've done where it's genuinely useful. I believe the only other place that actually does this are the backlight settings (and my backlight peakmeter patch), and speaking as a user, I like it that way. -- gl
Re: Patch: Optical Out setting extension for Battery/Charger.
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Daniel Stenberg wrote: On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, gl wrote: I'm thinking in a similar style to the profiles several mobile phones can be used to deal with these days. However I don't think simply loading two complete cfg files is the way to go if that's what you're suggesting Why would they need to be complete? I think they should better contain the stuff you want to change. I'd vote for this idea; however, [opening another flank to discussion] I think there should be some clean way for a user to add a specific setting to a profile. Manually editing cfgs isn't exactly clean, imho :) Maybe an extended write cfg file with checkboxes for the config items to write? Best regards Luca -- I have seen things you people would not believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannh?user Gate. But... all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty, from Blade Runner, 1982) _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML email X vCards / \
Re: Patch: Optical Out setting extension for Battery/Charger.
I totally agree in principle, I just question whether pragmatically this is worth doing at this point and whether it doesn't complicate the UI for not enough benefit? What does everybody else think? Can you think of options other than battery draining features (spdif, backlight) that would be genuinely useful to have seperate batter/charger profiles for? -- gl
