Re: Rockbox hosting

2019-10-22 Thread Paul Louden via rockbox-dev
I can't speak to the hosting costs and donation rates, but as someone who ran the forums for a long time, I can see a very real benefit to 'retiring the old and starting over.' People often want to respond to extremely old threads, not realizing that the information is outdated and no longer

Re: forums.rockbox.org is down.

2017-01-18 Thread Paul Louden via rockbox-dev
...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 10:00 PM, Paul Louden <paulthen...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Rockbox is a volunteer project, nobody is paid or full-time. >> > > ​Then what is this? > > [image: Inline image 1]​ > >

Re: forums.rockbox.org is down.

2017-01-18 Thread Paul Louden via rockbox-dev
Rockbox is a volunteer project, nobody is paid or full-time. There's probably not someone available to respond or able to address that issue right now. On Jan 18, 2017 8:52 PM, "Jason Arthur Taylor via rockbox-dev" < rockbox-dev@cool.haxx.se> wrote: > I got no replies the last time I reported

Re: USB IDs

2015-12-09 Thread Paul Louden via rockbox-dev
Didn't we try this once years ago with IDs allocated from another project, and run into issues when we contacted for clarification and found that doing so would still technically be 'against the rules'? On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:30 PM, franklin_wei via rockbox-dev < rockbox-dev@cool.haxx.se>

Re: How do I disable hardware components for power savings?

2015-05-20 Thread Paul Louden via rockbox-dev
This doesn't seem like a development question. Are you asking for programming help in disabling hardware components, or are you just asking about how to change settings in the firmware, which oddly is exactly what the section of the manual you're quoting is already telling you how to do? When you

Re: Archos devices: time to let them rest?

2014-08-04 Thread Paul Louden
As an iFP799 owner, let it rest. :) On Aug 4, 2014 3:27 PM, Michael Sevakis jethea...@sbcglobal.net wrote: The reason I dig this up from the dead is to suggest including IFP7xx in the purge. It's very incomplete with special exclusions in various places emphasizing its lack of finish. I doubt

Re: Archos devices: time to let them rest?

2014-03-01 Thread Paul Louden
Coming out of hibernation to say I agree completely - the HWCodec branch can be laid to gentle rest.

Re: Archos Recorder build fails: too big

2012-08-23 Thread Paul Louden
I'd have to agree that I think it's about time to retire the Archos builds. HWCodec + Lowmem seems to create an undue burden. It would most likely be better for the users if a final official Rockbox build were determined (either a previous release that owners of the hardware like, or a special

Re: USB ids: use our own, or the ones from the OF?

2012-05-29 Thread Paul Louden
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Michael Sparmann these...@gmx.net wrote: +1, and I think 256 IDs are not all that much. They probably have a block of 65536 addresses, and acquiring such a block only costs a one-time fee of $2000. So we'd basically be asking them for about $10 worth of IDs.

Re: iPod Nano

2012-03-04 Thread Paul Louden
Rockbox doesn't make plans to support any specific device. People interested in supporting any given device do the work, or they don't. If you don't find much information shared on a specific device in the wiki, and not much conversation about it on IRC, it's likely work isn't being done.

Re: Reminder: Use Gerrit to submit patches/translation fixes, not flyspray

2012-03-01 Thread Paul Louden
Shouldn't we remove the patches category on Flyspray then, much like we did Feature Requests?

Re: having pluginlib-action handling more/all plugin.

2012-01-04 Thread Paul Louden
We've more or less tried using pluginlib actions to have generalized keymaps. The problem is, it simply doesn't really work. Since the directional keys can be quite different from target to target (on wheel targets up and down are going to be wheel up and down, whereas on joystick targets it will

Re: FS#12321 - Touchscreen: List line padding, to more easily select lines

2011-10-10 Thread Paul Louden
I don't care what actually *does* the list spacing/expanding. To me the important part is that it's configurable from within Rockbox, rather than being something only configurable via .cfg file (like many theme options). Because touchscreen devices can differ not only in physical count of pixels,

Re: Im out

2011-10-01 Thread Paul Louden
So, To the people nice enough to say thanks and try to try my mind, fix the above and we'll see (I'd be incredibly surprised if anything changes). Believe it or not, I do appreciate the work you've done. I pretty much disagree with your general idea that people should speak their mind less if

Re: The next release version

2011-09-24 Thread Paul Louden
I think we're still at 3.X at the moment too. I don't think this version brings anything worth increasing the major version number.

Re: The next release version

2011-09-24 Thread Paul Louden
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Jonathan Gordon jdgo...@gmail.com wrote:     3 - no other target has caused a major bump so why should android be different? I do agree 3.10 looks a bit funny. But on the issue of Android being different from the other targets, it's more the transition from

Re: Git/gerrit migration status and next steps

2011-09-07 Thread Paul Louden
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Jonathan Gordon jdgo...@gmail.com wrote: Why? Just come in irc and ask someone to press the button. They don't need to do a full blown revue Why do we need that step if they aren't even expected to review the code? What do we gain from ask someone to press a

Re: Settings reordering.

2011-09-03 Thread Paul Louden
Just to clarify what I'm looking for, here's an example of naming a category for every setting: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AliucOXfAwkWdDBMNHdFSDBlTHUxWnJlV0p4bGtfelEhl=en_US Don't comment on my namings. Heck, don't really even read through them before doing your own. I'd really

Re: Discussion regarding reordering the main/root menu

2011-08-30 Thread Paul Louden
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Frank Gevaerts fr...@gevaerts.be wrote: I don't care too much about the rest of the discussion, but I do think credits do *not* belong in plugins. They may be implemented as a plugin, but they're a rather fundamental part of rockbox. I agree. I think wherever

Re: Discussion regarding reordering the main/root menu

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Louden
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Jonathan Gordon jdgo...@gmail.com wrote: My view regarding debug is that there is nothing there that is actually useful once a port is up and running *or during development* Every now and then I've seen debug needed to check things in the past. Personally, I'd

Re: Remove the System menu!

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Louden
I'm pretty sure you're the only person who actually has issues with TD going into settings, because you believe that it's not a setting. There's plenty of discussion on the topic in IRC, so your statement the only way to get any discussion is to commit and fend off the hordes isn't really true.

Re: Settings reordering.

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Louden
Okay, what I'd like to see here is this: People who actually want to directly contribute to this process (filling out a list of categories at each step, etc), please respond to this saying so, so that we can come up with dates and get this thing moving, as well as trying to begin selecting our

Re: Remove the System menu!

2011-08-23 Thread Paul Louden
You should probably also mention that included in those diffs is also a rearranging of the main menu as you mentioned in your first message, but left out in your summarized descriptions here.

Settings reordering.

2011-08-23 Thread Paul Louden
Hey guys, so, we're contemplating trying this once more. Many of us regularly come to the conclusion that the settings are not organized in the best way possible. We also often never manage to do anything about it. So we'd like to try again. We're going to come up with a proper process under

Re: Settings reordering.

2011-08-23 Thread Paul Louden
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:05 AM, bryan.chi...@rbs.com wrote: I think it's worth trying to set a guideline for the maximum desirable menu depth too - I don't think we'd want to go to fine grained for everything unless it's just otherwise unworkable? Bryan Childs I'm really, really hoping

Re: SUMMARY: FS#10849 - Sleep timer options: persistent duration and start on boot

2011-08-22 Thread Paul Louden
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Jonathan Gordon jdgo...@gmail.com wrote: I disagree with the first part of this change. Time date doesnt make any more sense in settings than it does in system (or info if you want to rename it). timedate isnt a setting. And it does make sense to keep

Re: SUMMARY: FS#10849 - Sleep timer options: persistent duration and start on boot

2011-08-22 Thread Paul Louden
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Jonathan Gordon jdgo...@gmail.com wrote: What has how you set it got anything to do with it being a setting or not? Time does not magically change when you give your DAP to your sibling. No, but it changes when you enter another time zone. Or daylight savings

Re: Possibly skin break again

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Louden
Well, if the idea's to eventually remove the old order, or let it expire as it becomes hard to support, it's better if it's a tag to support the old order. Another option would be to add it as an element of the BMP drawing tag itself? The current way BMPs are drawn would mean I don't care about

Re: Possibly skin break again

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Louden
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Jonathan Gordon jdgo...@gmail.com wrote: My intention is t force themers to fix their skins and adding another param to the draw-image tags doesnt quite make it inconvinient enough. Also a one line addition is far easier to tell users to add than to change

Re: Possibly skin break again

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Louden
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Jonathan Gordon jdgo...@gmail.com wrote: The whole point is to remove the incnsistancy in the draw oordering with no option to change that (once this temp hack falls out of use). Explicit ordering options wouldn't be inconsistent. But again, why include a

Re: Possibly skin break again

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Louden
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Jonathan Gordon jdgo...@gmail.com wrote: Because I dont know how long ill be able  to suppoort the hack, and doing it more permenantly means we are stuck with it which I dont want. There is no real reason t frce the change now though Isn't it better to force

Re: Possibly skin break again

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Louden
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Jonathan Gordon jdgo...@gmail.com wrote: Not necessarily. Adding this tag means the old behaviour is deprecated and could stop working any time. We (well I) wont support any skins which rely on that deprecated behaviour. Simply breaking the behaviour will

Re: Possibly skin break again

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Louden
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Jonathan Gordon jdgo...@gmail.com wrote: OK, some time after the next release it will stop working... That's exactly the kind of statement I'm arguing against. Will it definitely be before the release after that? Why can't we have a definite time, rather than an

Re: Informal poll, change to git?

2011-06-03 Thread Paul Louden
The git page on the wiki seems to be more Why distributed version control than specifically why git. And while it does address some of the new things you can do with Git, it was asked what will git give us? and that page doesn't answer that nearly as well. Who will benefit from a change to git?

Re: Informal poll, change to git?

2011-06-03 Thread Paul Louden
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Bryan Childs godea...@gmail.com wrote: Is it *really* necessary that we do that here? There's SO much info out there on the net about what it could do for you, that I don't see a lot of point of trying to make it rockbox specific here, if there even IS anything

Re: FS#12107 - Remove track-number generation heuristic from database

2011-05-30 Thread Paul Louden
The nice thing about NN - Title.mp3 is that also works for filename sorting, so doesn't require track number guessing. Track number guessing basically won't to much good except in situations where the numbers are ambiguous anyway, I think.

Re: USB charge buttons

2011-05-16 Thread Paul Louden
Just to chime in, I too like any button does it (as per the patch) and make available the option to reverse the behaviour and leave the default as USB file access.

Re: FS#11931 - Do a short rewind when playback is paused

2011-05-09 Thread Paul Louden
I like this feature too.

Re: Google Summer of Code 2011 ideas needed!

2011-03-23 Thread Paul Louden
On 3/23/2011 3:50 PM, Trevor wrote: The C64 stuff has already been emulated, afaik. The two main formats I really wanted was the VGM (Sega consoles and Arcade cabinets) and the RSN (for the SNES) formats. Game boy sound has already been emulated in rockboy, but it is laggy and it requires to

Re: FS#11615 - dynamic screen size.. time to commit

2011-03-13 Thread Paul Louden
On 3/13/2011 5:19 AM, Jonathan Gordon wrote: * plugins (We *could* build each .rock for multiple hardcoded sizes which will work with the dynamic screen size build. android (as an example) could download the .zip for the devices screen size which would also include the cabbie theme) I don't

Re: FS#11615 - dynamic screen size.. time to commit

2011-03-13 Thread Paul Louden
On 3/13/2011 6:33 AM, Dominik Riebeling wrote: Obviously that would be quite a lot of work ... on the other hand, what plugins do we want to support on those platforms at all? I don't see much plugins to be useful -- you can get tools and games as native apps for the host. That's more or less

Re: FS#11615 - dynamic screen size.. time to commit

2011-03-13 Thread Paul Louden
And I agree with Dominik's reply to Paul. It would be great if RaaA (where it made sense) to have a first run setup which grabbed device relevant files but that is something to think about later (I tihnk RBUtil for android would make an interesting GSoC project). A native RBUtil that could

Re: Database and bookmarks/playlists

2011-03-07 Thread Paul Louden
My personal expectation regarding database and file tree is if I click on a file in the file tree or database, I expect it to resume from whatever file I stopped playing no matter what I do to the disk (other than of course removing that file). With the database, if I insert and artist, then

Re: Database and bookmarks/playlists

2011-03-07 Thread Paul Louden
On 3/7/2011 4:29 AM, pondlife wrote: I think of a playlist as an entity in its own right. Whilst I may have generated it from a directory or database query, I may then have manually edited it (removing that one track I always skip...). Once a manual edit has taken place, I'd expect it to be

Re: FS#8961 - Anti-Aliased Fonts

2011-02-25 Thread Paul Louden
Any chance we could get antialiased versions of the fonts used for color targets in the default theme (and an appropriate update to the theme) to go in with the patch?

Re: WPS on RaaA

2011-02-24 Thread Paul Louden
On 2/24/2011 4:12 PM, Jonathan Gordon wrote: Firstly its all touch targets not just RaaA. Secondly i agree with pretty much all of it except the need for a STOP button. (long play is fine) I'm not sure long play is particularly intuitive or obvious. We mainly only use it on other targets

Re: Embedded albumart

2011-02-13 Thread Paul Louden
On 2/13/2011 4:36 PM, David Hall wrote: We're both talking about edge cases, the difference I see is that if the priority order goes in as you state my described edge case needs a PC to fix. If the priority order goes in as I ask both our edge cases can be bandaged in the field with simple file

Re: Embedded albumart

2011-02-13 Thread Paul Louden
On 2/13/2011 5:10 PM, David Hall wrote: The example I see presented here is just another in the infinite list of possibilities. The difference is with my priority order a repair can be made within rockbox, with the other way it can not. Neither address the root cause of confusion and without

Re: Embedded albumart

2011-02-13 Thread Paul Louden
On 2/13/2011 5:20 PM, Jonathan Gordon wrote: add the setting and kill the discussion. What would the options be for this setting, exactly?

Re: Embedded albumart

2011-02-13 Thread Paul Louden
On 2/13/2011 5:26 PM, Jonathan Gordon wrote: prefer embedded or prefer external I'm not sure anyone's suggested that it should ever prefer embedded over present individual images.

Re: Embedded albumart

2011-02-13 Thread Paul Louden
On 2/13/2011 5:29 PM, David Hall wrote: That's exactly how it can be fixed. It really doesn't matter if you find that practical or not. It is doable, period. The priority scheme you propose is backed with nothing other than edge cases, just as mine. They are equally valid concerns, and

Re: Embedded albumart

2011-02-13 Thread Paul Louden
On 2/13/2011 5:59 PM, David Hall wrote: On 02/13/2011 06:51 PM, Paul Louden wrote: Touché. See what happens when you think about my concern instead of steadfastly defending yours? ;) I took your statement it cannot be fixed on the player for granted, and didn't exam it, I'll admit

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2011-02-08 Thread Paul Louden
I see a significant amount more of this feature has been committed. When exactly did it overcome the barrier of quite a few people objecting to it? Didn't we have a relatively recent discussion about how if a decent number of committers objected to a feature (as was the case with this one)

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2011-02-08 Thread Paul Louden
On 2/8/2011 7:12 PM, Jonathan Gordon wrote: What. The. FUCK!? you just had an hour long argument in IRC, you need to start it all over again here?! I started the discussion in IRC when I thought this email hadn't gone through. It should show as having been sent *before* the discussion in IRC.

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2011-02-08 Thread Paul Louden
On 2/8/2011 7:26 PM, Jonathan Gordon wrote: On 9 February 2011 12:21, Paul Loudenpaulthen...@gmail.com wrote: my apologies, you are indeed correct. I'll blame gmail for that. It happens. I should've figured this would happen and sent another mail or something. We don't need to rehash

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Louden
On 1/4/2011 5:07 AM, sideral wrote: [2] I've outlined some problems I've had with the bookmarking system in this comment: http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/11748#comment37597 If I understand correctly, these are your problems with bookmarks: * Bookmarks can only be found through the

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Louden
On 1/4/2011 7:38 AM, Marcin Bukat wrote: It's not a bug it's a feature :-) Rockbox refuse to write data to disk if battery voltage drops below dangerous level defined in target specific powermgmt-xxx.c file. This is to prevent filesystem corruption which could occur if hard power down happens in

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Louden
On 1/4/2011 7:54 AM, sideral wrote: Paul Loudenpaulthen...@gmail.com writes: Basically it sounds like your objection to improving bookmarking is it's buggy I am sorry to see that you respond to what my objection sounds like, rather than responding to the individual arguments I've made. I

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-26 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/26/2010 5:51 PM, sideral wrote: My experience with the feature tells me that this is a nonissue. Even with resume on automatic track change enabled, later chapters of an audiobook are virtually never resumed in the middle simply because no resume point has been stored for them. This is

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-26 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/26/2010 6:21 PM, sideral wrote: Here's another thought. As I mentioned before, I view the autoresume position as a per-track feature (hence, it has its place in the database), whereas bookmarks take snapshots of playlists. Arguably, what you want for your audiobooks is a bookmark, not a

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-22 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/22/2010 2:34 AM, Marcin Bukat wrote: Paul, the discussion came to the stage where without proof-of-concept patch (implementing your idea how this should work) it is pointless. My personal feeling is that solution proposed by sideral is overcomplicated and will interfere with (for example

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-21 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/21/2010 5:22 PM, Mike Giacomelli wrote: If theres a lot of use cases, and the ones the patch currently implements are implemented well, it should be committed and the additional cases handled in future patches. The main problem is that the

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-16 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/16/2010 4:59 AM, sideral wrote: Nonetheless, under the premise of simplifying configuration you are pushing to remove two features I regard as important (prevent skip to 0:00; autoresume on automatic track change), without allowing them to be enabled by way of configuration. You mention

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-16 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/16/2010 7:29 AM, sideral wrote: You disable the autoresume-on-track-change feature. But in practice, you will notice that, typically, the later chapters do not have a resume point anyway, so there will be no point in disabling that feature. This is one of my points. The idea as I've

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/15/2010 7:19 AM, sideral wrote: * Prevent skip back to track intro? -- Never (other options would be: only for resumable tracks; or, always) Note: the last config option is currently named Allow skip back to intro (with suitably inverted naming of the options, of course). Any

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/15/2010 9:29 AM, Marcin Bukat wrote: We have option to set recording dir, starting browser dir etc. I don't see any problem to add another 'special' configurable dir. Marcin Neither of those two options create a situation where two files in the same playlist can end up transparently

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/15/2010 12:10 PM, Al Le wrote: On 15.12.2010 17:32, Paul Louden wrote: The starting folder sets where the browser *always* goes. This is not uncoditionally true. If you enable the follow playlist option the file browser will start in other directory than specified by starting folder

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/15/2010 12:41 PM, Thomas Martitz wrote: IIRC the playlist catalog only picks up playlists in /Playlists. Also some browsers in the setting except the configuration files in fixed dirs. Not sure if that counts. Best regards. Again those are just listing files in a specific folder

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Louden
I think my biggest concern about this feature is that it seems engineered/focused on the use case having a playlist of multiple files the user wishes to store independent resume points within which seems to me not the most common use case for automatic resuming. I would expect the general use

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/15/2010 1:20 PM, Al Le wrote: On 15.12.2010 19:15, Paul Louden wrote: I thought follow playlist sets where you end up when you press select in the WPS. Does it also change where you end up if you choose Files from the main menu? No, of course not. But if you go to the browser from

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/15/2010 1:31 PM, David Hall wrote: If the test for inclusion includes can a user abuse the freedoms Rockbox grants to do stupid things? shop might as well be packed up, IMHO. I think though that this isn't quite the same. There's a difference between allowing a user to explicitly do

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/15/2010 3:35 PM, David Hall wrote: Which is why I think simply replicating what Sansa does (podcast specific special folder) is the best solution. No additional configurations / options, and one can not place files from said folder into a mixed playlist w/o explicitly choosing to do so.

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/15/2010 3:51 PM, Thomas Martitz wrote: I think it's definitely better than requiring the users to set up complicated file filters. And it's seems be a solution somewhat accepted by both users and manufactures. As long as it doesn't try to resume playback in every file in my

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/15/2010 6:01 PM, Alex Parker wrote: I can only reiterate that I am very against being forced to put items into a specific directory to get a feature to work. A large part of why I use Rockbox is being able to organise my files as I want, not as someone else has decided I should. To be

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Louden
At the request of IrcNick Soap, I'm going to write my counter proposal. I really don't want this to descend into a his idea vs my idea kind of situation. What I'd like us to do is try to decide as a group what sort of playback situations auto-resume should address (playlist full of half

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/15/2010 10:25 PM, Jonathan Gordon wrote: A counter proposal doesnt mean anything. If sideral wants to incorporate your ideas that is up to him, but while there is 1 mostly finished implementation and one you should do it my way, the implementation wins as far as I'm concerned. You

Re: Automatic multi-resume feature for podcasts and audiobooks (FS#11748)

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/14/2010 4:29 AM, sideral wrote: There hasn't been much discussion on this aspect yet, but it's a good discussion to have, so here we go. :) You're correct, the configuration is probably the most complex part of this whole feature. Generally speaking the ideal is to add as few new

Re: custom rockbox - € 200 reward

2010-12-04 Thread Paul Louden
On 12/4/2010 12:37 PM, Rocker wrote: If you want to talk nonsense perhaps you should read your own post! BTW: I have donated to Rockox on several occasions. Way back before you were involved in the project! Bakc when the Voice UI was still a dream of mine! I guess that was nonsense too right?

Re: brain dump regarding playlist management

2010-11-16 Thread Paul Louden
On 11/16/2010 11:53 PM, Jonathan Gordon wrote: 1) Main menu playlists - That should open the playlist catalog instead of the menu you get now 2) context menu on Main menu playlists should open the current menu 3) the default action on .m3u files should be to open it in the viewer 4) the

Re: brain dump regarding playlist management

2010-11-16 Thread Paul Louden
On 11/17/2010 1:38 AM, Marcin Bukat wrote: 3) the default action on .m3u files should be to open it in the viewer I *always* use m3u files to play whole album in order. It is stored in the same dir as the files. Such change would break this badly. wodz Why do you need an m3u file to play a

Re: brain dump regarding playlist management

2010-11-16 Thread Paul Louden
On 11/17/2010 1:40 AM, ra...@mail.com wrote: 1) don't top post 2) use the database for that. Oh, sorry. What I meant was that it would be nice to have playlists (stored as files) based upon the database structure and not the filessytem (which m3u is). Those playlist files are then

Re: FS#10891

2010-11-09 Thread Paul Louden
On 11/9/2010 10:22 AM, Alex Parker wrote: I like the general idea, but the way it switches between what the numbers mean depending on how many digits you use seems like it could be confusing to me. Having 90 = 130 is a little odd, and if I see I can type 90 to have 1 minute 30, I would

Re: FS#10891

2010-11-09 Thread Paul Louden
On 11/9/2010 10:15 AM, Peter Lecky wrote: Hi all, Can we again discuss patch FS#10891? it seems that there are users who would like to have it in RB (see the discussion). Peter It might be good to clarify what the patch is about here, rather than asking everyone on the mailing list to also

Re: FS#6321 - Universal Image Viewer

2010-11-09 Thread Paul Louden
On 11/9/2010 3:20 PM, Jonas Häggqvist wrote: On 09-11-2010 18:35, Marcin Bukat wrote: BTW. Aren't viewers bind to particular file extensions? If so I wouldn't bother to do any more advanced detection. If someone rename .bmp to .jpg it's his/her problem. The thing is that the image viewer

Re: Making absolute point mode default

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Louden
On 10/26/2010 6:16 AM, Thomas Martitz wrote: I'd propose to make the change for all and force people to adapt the missing parts finally (the absolute point mode is not a new thing at all)? So wait, the idea is to enable this mode so that you can force other people to do the work of adapting

Re: Making absolute point mode default

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Louden
On 10/26/2010 6:27 AM, Thomas Martitz wrote: On 26.10.2010 13:20, Paul Louden wrote: I would maybe do it myself if I had access to the devices. And I bet I'm not the only one the switch-over is needed badly. Isn't this purely touchscreen+UI changes? As in, stuff that could be done

Re: Making absolute point mode default

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Louden
On 10/26/2010 6:46 AM, Thomas Martitz wrote: On 26.10.2010 13:40, Paul Louden wrote: Well, you cannot sensibly use the sim for this because the mouse is a terrible simulation of the thumbs, and because there's generally a huge DPI mismatch between PC and device displays. You need to see

Re: Making absolute point mode default

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Louden
On 10/26/2010 5:15 PM, Thomas Martitz wrote: As if the grid mode was usable. In my opinion the absolute point mode is much more usable even if some screens are not converted. Is there a screen that doesn't work with grid mode and cannot be used, or is this hyperbole and do you really just

Re: Making absolute point mode default

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Louden
On 10/26/2010 5:33 PM, Thomas Martitz wrote: A first draft is maybe possible, but if it can't be tested if it's usable it might end up being as bad as the grid mode (if that's even possible). I wouldn't want to commit first drafts too. Since the grid mode actually works on every screen, and

Re: Making absolute point mode default

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Louden
On 10/26/2010 5:40 PM, Antony Stone wrote: I find this question hard to manage - isn't resolution a quantity, which is measured in units of DPI? How can screens of different DPI have the same resolution? DPI means dots per inch. Resolution is an absolute measure of dots. A 1280x720 16 foot

Re: Making absolute point mode default

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Louden
On 10/26/2010 5:49 PM, Thomas Martitz wrote: If I remember correctly, the idea of overriding settings and forcing grid mode in screens that aren't adopted has been rejected in the past. In this case it's a all or nothing decision. It's certainly not a NoDo, so rejected in the past doesn't

Re: Making absolute point mode default

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Louden
On 10/26/2010 6:04 PM, Thomas Martitz wrote: You seem mixing up Taking DPI into account for multiple versions of the design with Taking DPI differences between the design target and design test machine. That's not the same. So the design test machine is somehow magically different than any

Re: Making absolute point mode default

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Louden
On 10/26/2010 6:22 PM, Antony Stone wrote: On Wednesday 27 October 2010 at 00:45, Paul Louden wrote: From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution - the use of the word resolution here is a misnomer, though common resolution properly refers to the pixel density, the number of pixels per

Re: Making absolute point mode default

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Louden
On 10/26/2010 6:26 PM, Thomas Martitz wrote: RaaA has shown that the grid mode makes Rockbox appear broken as a whole, while a few broken screens appears as ah, this particular part isn't done yet. This is what the various articles, blogs and comments have shown. From LWN: Running the

Re: Making absolute point mode default

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Louden
On 10/26/2010 6:54 PM, Thomas Martitz wrote: As for your other ideas. I find improving the grid mode in any way is a waste of human resources, which we don't have as a volunteer effort project with 2 or maybe 3 people caring about UI at all (and with caring I mean caring enough to spend time

Re: Making absolute point mode default

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Louden
From IRC: What I'm asking is, if the goal is to make the screens bad so that developers want to fix them, wouldn't leaving them in grid mode when the rest of the UI is absolute also accomplish this pressure? Why is very bad not good enough to accomplish your goal, but gone is? I would think

Re: Making absolute point mode default

2010-10-26 Thread Paul Louden
On 10/26/2010 7:18 PM, Jonas Häggqvist wrote: 1. Absolute Point mode is the default. 2. Screens which have not yet been adapted to absolute point mode revert to Grid mode with a visual cue (an overlaid 1 or 2px grid, maybe a splash) Just to be explicitly clear (I'm sorry if it was

Re: The next release

2010-10-12 Thread Paul Louden
On 10/12/2010 3:02 AM, Marcin Bukat wrote: I don't like discontinuity in release numbering. For me such practice is pure marketing. Marcin Bukat Release numbering is pure marketing in the first place. 3.7 doesn't mean anything useful other than it came after any number lower than this. A

Re: The next release

2010-10-12 Thread Paul Louden
On 10/12/2010 9:28 AM, Marcin Bukat wrote: That's exactly my point - version number is to place particular release in some chronological order nothing more. This is patently not true. If chronological order were the only purpose, there would be no reason not to just use the release date,

Re: Release 3.7, freeze on monday

2010-10-11 Thread Paul Louden
On 10/11/2010 12:43 PM, David Hall wrote: I also believe that the +2 threshold should initially be a tentative one, subject to later review by the RSB. The ultimate goal, IMHO, should be an improvement to the overall happiness of the developer community. I can envision a cultural divide where

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