Philip Meyer;383703 Wrote: > >I agree; sounds promising, and fairly comprehensive! > > > I agree, sounds great. > > But the terminology is awkward still, I think. > > The problem for me is the word Sync, which on its own does not describe > direction. I see synch as what happens when players are in a group. > Setting up synchronisation involves other action words to describe the > setup process. Sync To/With helps to disambiguate a bit, but it's > still not clear. eg. SYNC WITH could be construed as both "Sync this > player WITH selected player" or "Sync selected player WITH this > player". > > So, to disambiguate, I think either different words could be found that > describes what is being selected, or include additional words to explain > what is being selected. > > Perhaps: > > JOIN to sync group > and > SUMMON/INVITE/INCLUDE player into sync group > > Phil
I think it's important to mention the word 'sync' or 'synchronise' somewhere as that is the actual SqueezeCenter action that is being performed and that the user is (hopefully) used to. JOIN, INCLUDE etc on their own don't really give any hint as to what they will do - they need something to give some context. This is probably easier on the Controller where there's more space. Perhaps one solution for all UIs would be to add another menu level, and call that something like Synchronise. So you'd have Other Players->Synchronise->Join A&B. This would have the added advantage of putting Synchronise as the header on multi-line displays, adding more context to terms such as JOIN. Disadvantage is more button presses, but it's only one. Problem is Synchronize doesn't fit that well with 'JOIN'. Maybe it should be 'Sync Groups'? Unfortunately, we also need to keep things short as display width is limited and player names can be long. I like JOIN (meaning SYNC WITH) provided there's the additional context in there somehow. I think I prefer INCLUDE (meaning SYNC TO) out of the other suggestions, but it's not ideal. Please keep suggestions coming! Thanks, Max -- max.spicer Some people think the title of this song is irrelevant, but it's not irrelevant - it's a hippopotamus. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57617 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
