erland;566236 Wrote: > rcampbel3 and aubuti, just out of interest to understand the needs a bit > better. Do you know exactly which customizations you like to do with > this new functionality ? I'll come back with details about how I would customize menus (and what I think is clumsy about SP's defaults), but my main motivations are:
1) satisfying a knowledgeable user (me) who wants easy access to all of the things "under the hood" and a novice user (my wife) who wants easy access to only a few most-used things, and keep the rest out of the way. Keeping the rest out of the way became more difficult since 7.4.0 where some items now have to be either on the Home menu or nowhere at all. The novice user also wants placement of menu items to be consistent and predictable (ie, don't re-order items 1-8 just because you add item 9), which I think has been a problem with 7.4 and 7.5 (although I don't recall the specific examples). 2) both users like the idea of putting most used menu items at the top of the menu list, roughly in order of frequency of use. The one exception to this is putting a frequently-used item at the _bottom_ of the list, so that you can scroll to it fast and it stops/pauses before wrapping around to the top of the list. Pre-7.4 this was "Turn off <player>" and that was good, although I might prefer to put "Choose Player" there instead. I would apply the same approach to some sub-menus as well. 3) group similar things together. My main example here is the two "apps" I put on the main menu: Napster and Pandora. Sure, they're not the same thing, but having them separated from each other by "other stuff" such as "Extras" or "Choose Player" or "My Apps" is just a needless pain. Like I said, I'll post back later tonight comparing my un-customized 7.5.1 menu with my first attempts at customizing using 7.6.0, which will help illustrate the points. So far I've mostly thought about re-ordering the Home menu, and not about sub-menus or hiding menus, which I wasn't expecting would be coming any time soon. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80658 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
