Pascal Hibon wrote: > > Could you show us an iPad screenshot? > One thing after the other :)
> > Hope you dont mind me saying this but I find the current iPeng (main) > screen on the iPad a bit too cluttered. Will that change in the upcoming > release? Ha, depends a bit on _why_ you actually found it to be cluttered. The iPad main screen is probably the biggest change in all of iPeng 7... which is why I held it back so far :) And I was never very happy with the old iPeng for iPad layout, I did it in the early days when iPad design was new and some of the ideas - like using large background areas in the top bar as control elements - turned out to be really not a good idea. Also, following Apple's original iPad Music App scheme in showing a cover in a somewhat big area at the bottom left and cramming all other control functionality into the top bar probably led to a bit disorganized and crammed appearance. It was not so much a question of the actual number of buttons (iPeng for iPad actually had _fewer_ buttons on screen than the other iPad Apps) but more a question of arrangement and use of whitespace. All of this has changed. On the other hand, there are two principles I followed which led to a somewhat cluttered appearance that I did not change and that I will not change: 1. iPeng does and will always try to make available space usable for actual content. If you browse your library, you can use your beautiful artwork to browse in a tile mode (and artist images, too, if you use Michael's Music and Artist Information plugin). And iPeng will fill your screen with it. iPeng will not "clean" up it's design by filling 1/3rd of your screen with whitespace and 1/3rd with a static cover while cramming all of your menu content into an area only amounting to 1/5th of the screen space like some other Apps do. If this leads to a cluttered appearance then so be it, if your content is not as important to you as a tidied up main screen appearance then iPeng is probably not for you. In iPeng, if you only want to control a player there are beautiful screen savers that can really get out of your way while giving you _all_ player controls, there is absolutely no need to replicate that on the main screen. 2. iPeng will continue to always show the main menu. This is another usability thing. It means the main menu stays around taking up some space (although it can get really much less in iPeng 7) but the effect of this is that you don't have to always go through the main menu when you are watching at, say, your Rhapsody Albums and you want to briefly check your own Albums to see whether you've got something by a certain artist yourself. That said: in iPeng 7 you pretty much have the choice on how you want to use the screen estate. Especially in landscape mode you can cram quite a lot of stuff in for those people who want to see everything at one glance or you can move most stuff out of the way and just focus on the library. And when I say you have the choice then that doesn't mean you have to use a setup menu ;) So... Let's have a look at what is probably the most cleaned-up version of the main screen in iPeng 7... Ha.. And this time I will really hold back with more until some people take notice at least some of the news hidden in here :) 15366 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: leakpadmain1.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=15366| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and *New: Logitech UE Smart Radio* as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100478
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