First, let me say I'm very happy with your hard work so far. My previous
post might have seemed a little harsh, which isn't my intention. If
anything I feel it's great that we now have some competition in the
Squeezebox-remote community, when it comes to iPad remotes. The
community will only benefit from the competition iPeng HD is getting,
which will hopefully give us the best app possible to use as a remote,
whether that will be SqueezePad or iPeng HD when it's finally released.


bluegaspode;569496 Wrote: 
> As to the look and feel - if anyone comes up with good ideas how to
> improve it (possibly mock-screens with some gfx-tool) I'm very happy.
> It's very difficult otherwise to understand what you (and others) would
> consider a better 'iPad-feel'.

It is very functional indeed, everything can be found by following the
menu's. But the white textboxes and the font's are somewhat
old-fashionate. I'm no graphics expert myself, but perhaps there is
someone here who can help in that area? I'll see if I can give you a
few examples that could provide you with inspiration. In the mean-time,
there are plenty of ideas already posted in the "what should iPeng for
iPad look like?-topic".

bluegaspode;569496 Wrote: 
> Comparison between iPeng and Squeezepad
Although I'm comparing it to iPeng lots of times too, especially in
regards to look and feel, I respect your choice to follow your own
design route and leave iPeng as it is. After all, we're talking about
an iPad app, that offers a whole new set of possibilities due to the
large screen. 

bluegaspode;569496 Wrote: 
> I think its a lot to do with what you are used to.
> My wife complains about iPeng alot - to much swiping and screens there
> for her. (She is forced to use iPeng every day I leave her with an
> unusable buggy beta-version of SqueezePad *g*). 
> So I guess its a lot to do with 'getting used to'.

You're right in saying it has something to do with what you are used
to. iPeng felt kind of frustrating in the beginning. But now that I
know how it works, I'm delighted, as is my girlfriend. Considering the
small screen you have to work with, the current solution is one of the
best solutions possible if you need to scroll through large libraries.
But of course this applies for iPhone. On an iPad you have a much
larger screen to your avail, being able to present a hell of a lot more
information on the same screen. At the same time, it's questionable if
you would want all that information presented to you all the time...

bluegaspode;569496 Wrote: 
> Are there other areas which you consider 'unintuitive' ? What do other
> users think ?

One of the gimmicks of iOs is the way you can swipe to bring menu's or
other screens up, and therefor hide stuff you don't need at that point.
I'll admit right away that I've played with it for too short up to now
to assess the full potential of this app, but it appeared to me the
screen is rather static. For instance, if you don't need the menu, it
can't be hidden, or parts of it.


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