pippin;675927 Wrote: > You better start watching the Quick Tutorial animations that are forced > upon you when you open a menu that supports this the first time ;) > Replays under "Help".
I saw these cartoons when I first used iPeng but they did not really help, I resorted to the "learning by burning" method ,very popular in electrical engineering :) I must lack imagination they only makes sense after you used the interface for a while (they do now when revisited ). And still, probably due to lack of imagination . I learned that i can change modes to to play songs or albums but the actual action to start the song is not shown. The little white hand could press a song in the list to make it more obvious that these action go together and interacts. (In fact the animation could be the actual UI with songs and real covers ) They all makes sense now when i see them , now I have been using iPeng for a couple of months, so they are worth revisiting , but upon firt use I did not learn much from them. I simply did not get your idea of modes when I first used iPeng ,but it is a good idea now that I understands it :) So I was not able to get the instructions of what "modes" did . So now I know what modes is is iPeng !! The normal squeezesomething interfaces like the web-UI has all 3 actions avaible at each song, so you are conditioned to think that "I decide to add or play at song/album level" especially after 4 years of using squeezeboxes, your approach is to set the whole app in a mode and every action is done according to that mode, except when using context menus ,then you make a active choices again ok. I'm no fan off "hidden" buttons/actions in any UI . UI should be selfobvius in it's own context I think for example having smal faint semitransparent add play and "add to" symbols to the right of each song signifying that it does something else when clicked on when you change mode. But once you know that it does something you know so eh ok . Otherwise there is no confirmation that you significantly altered the apps behavior ? by these fain tblue buttons Then I just noticed another of your UI ideas , you never really confirms an action it just happens . On album level it is an improvement as the whole context menu collapse away and music starts to play, or the menu choices of "add to" or "add" was very obvious as you press a whole line of text explaining what's about to happen, the typical squeezebox popup is redundant here . On song level a bar flash blue once under a song title in the song list . But what did I just do ? add to end or to play next (play is self evident as the music changes) You see what you did when you look at the playlist later .Here the squeezebox style "adding to end..." or "adding to play next..." confirmation are not such a redundant idea . (being an option to turn "confirmations" on or off maybe ) I do like the global search function . It must make a real difference when you actually have many apps I don't as living where I do give you a limited set of apps so this is not immediately obvius , but now that the number of useful apps for me is growing the more I appreciate a central search function and not having to dive into each app to search -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
