bluegaspode;606985 Wrote: > > As often said SqueezePad focusses on keeping stuff that you need > everyday easy and intuitive. Things that one only needs once a month or > less are left in their original menus. > I would say: things only certain users use. Take shuffle and repeat. That's NEVER something you use once a month. It's either something you _never_ use - in which case you are probably fine with SqueezePad's UI - or several times a day - in which case you are probably not. > > And lets face it: both depend on the SqueezeBox server which limits > what both can do most. This just leaves some small areas like multiple > screensavers or how to render the synchronization state. > ... Or how you do volume control ... or whether you display big artwork or tiny stamps. Face it, there's a lot you can do with that server if you don't just use SqueezePlay menus as they are. > > So its not just single users that write me stuff like this > But you should probably mention that a lot of them compare it to iPeng on iPhone as you can see here: > > for example, is easy in SqueezePad, via the dropdown, but in iPeng you > need to do some cryptic left-scroll or right-scroll > iPeng for iPad also has a drop-down menu, even in pretty much the same place... It's just soooo much easier to place functionality on the big iPad screen.
And how important getting rid of that swiping _really_ is to users you can see in my feature poll: http://forums.slimdevices.com/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=162 After all, everybody was talking about using gestures instead of buttons, right... > In the end it's up to the user but personally I would never trade > feature count against my joy to actually use the stuff ;) Definitely. And using only 25% of the screen for the stuff I actually want to see - my music - and always having to navigate deep menu structures is simply not a joy for everybody ;) The one thing I admit you really have an edge is the general appeal of the main screen, I was never happy with that in iPeng for iPad, it's a first try, will get better... But yes, we have different philosophies here: I would never trade simple to use for simple to understand, I want an App to be easy and fast to use long term, not in the first five minutes only, those who only use it once a month may use more simple solutions. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84957 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
