Philip Meyer;493607 Wrote: > >> I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed by the next release of > >> Squeemote then; the contextual menu by default behaviour is going > away; > >> the majority of feedback I've had suggests that the old behaviour of > tap > >> to play was preferred. > >> > >Good to hear that. It matches my experience. > > > The problem is that people who provide feedback are the people who are > not happy. > > Touch to play (in my opinion) is evil, so you can add that to your > feedback stats. > > Whilst I agree that tap-and-hold should be context menu, touch to play > (esp. if it replaces rather than add to playlist) is just evil. It's > like an operating system having click to delete by default... > Single touch should select/navigate - nothing destructive. > > Maybe I'm used to Windows Explorer, where I have maintained the > original behaviour of single click to select and double-click to perform > a default action. WinXP tried to change Explorer behaviour for new > installations to have single-click to open folders - most people I know > hate that and it's the first thing that gets changed. > > >> Of course, I could have made the whole thing one big setting - > >> tap-and-hold or tap for menu - but "user preferences" are evil. > Fewer > >> options, not more, is the way forward. Making everything > user-definable > >> is not the direction I'm interested in going in. > >Another, VERY important point. Could not agree more. > > Couldn't agree less. User Preferences are not evil, especially if > presented properly. There shouldn't be a need for users to have to look > at all settings (select decent defaults), but there's no reason not to > have settings. Users evolve and over time explore options to get more > out of software. > > Fewer options, means less people satisfied.
The one thing EVERY UI developer forgets is that people are ... different. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB Touch Beta (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69471 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
