------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102134 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Do you want to see the status bar on iPhone 5, 5s and iTouch 5G - Yes, show me the status bar! - No, I prefer to have the clean screen. - I don't care ------------------------------------------------------------------------
MelonMonkey wrote: > Having the status bar appear and disappear (ie. only in some view modes) > is absolutely the wrong way to do it, so please don't go that route. > Why not? Plenty of examples. Apple does it for the video player, iPeng itself does it on iPad and I haven't seen any complaints so far. The NowPlaying screen is completely different, it even has a different color scheme and now browsing where you'd need it to scroll to the top (OK, for the current playlist), I don't think it's very intrusive. Configuration options are certainly just as bad. Also, I'm definitely doing it for the landscape/portrait transition because I don't want the status bar in landscape. In landscape the navigation bar is smaller so having a status bar there will bring down the notification center much more easily. > > the app already has a many - one more isn't going to break it. ;) > And that's true for all the about 50 different things people want configurable? iPeng already has way too many options but it would have several times more if I weren't refusing to add options wherever I can. I don't think I'm going to do it in this case. > > My main niggle with the current app is a design bug - the behavior of > the A..Z letters at the right side of the screen when scrolling lists. > iPeng 7 has been broken with respect to this - the letters (quick jump > way to navigate) should always remain static, just like in every other > iOS app. > I know, the problem is that would mean I'd have to re-implement the navigation logic. The problem is that the scrolling container resizes. I'd either have to start to permanently show the navigation bar again - taking up quite a bit of space - or completely replace the navigation controller and manually show the navigation bar which would be a whole App redesign. I don't think I've got that much time, it's at least a month of work or so at the time I currently have. > > This means if you try to use those letters to scroll down after > scrolling up, you will never be able to stop on the letter you want. > More than frustrating, it's actually infuriating. :mad: > You can, what you need to do is touch the bar and then move to the letter you want, then you can get the exact letter you are trying to find. But yes, I hate it, too :) > > Next one, this has been around forever, so I hope it's not some > fundamental design element that can't be remedied. When starting the > app, immediately apply my saved menu button arrangement. iPeng 7 seems > to depend connecting to the server before restoring its own app state. > Again somewhat frustrating. Yes, but unavoidable. The menu is defined by the server so as long as it's not loaded, iPeng can't use it, it doesn't know how the menu looks like, it can change any time. The menu will be different on each server you connect to and - even worse - it's per-player so it can even change when you switch to a different player. Too many variables. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Universal App for iOS 7* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102134 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
