pippin wrote: > Is this reproducible? > I know I have seen this once recently when experimenting with the > "Preserve Connection" setting but then I had two copies of iPeng running > at the same time and it was definitely in the background. > > Is iPeng running in the foreground when this happens for you? > > > > Well, that's as usual: you can't make it right for everyone. > You are pretty alone with not wanting to see artwork to removing that is > not an option. > So adding buttons would mean making the volume slider smaller which > would in turn make it harder and less accurate to use. So adding buttons > would make the slider worse, it's difficult. > > Regarding the steps for the keys: I thought about accelerating them when > used longer but the logic by which I have to determine the steps taken > from the system volume change makes this very awkward. Maybe iOS 7.1 > with the car interface will help here. > > Regarding options: Options are not an option. They sound like a great > idea to not have to make decisions and then we all hate to take > decisions, don't we? Because they always mean that you hurt someone. > But the problem with options is that the options hurt EVERYONE because > they make the whole App more complex. iPeng already has way too many of > them right now and since the start of iPeng 7 I got no less than 14 > different requests (15, with your one) to add new options to iPeng: show > years with albums, do not show artist roles, do automatically switch > dark/light skin (I am considering that one), do not show power buttons > and so on and so on. If I included all options that I get asked for > iPeng would have a 100-item list of configuration settings by now. > > So I have a simple rule: You want a new option? Unless I _really_ want > that one myself, it either needs to be something that can be done > directly in the UI (like setting the artwork scale or the window size in > iPeng 7) or you have to tell me which other settings options I can get > rid of instead so that they don't get more. > Unfortunately, most of the current options in settings are for stuff > that otherwise doesn't work at all for some people.... I'm always > tempted to do away with the option to turn off group control and to turn > off the "real PlayNext" but beyond that it's getting difficult.
Reproducible - Happens every time on my setup. iPeng is running in the foreground. Most of the time I'm using iPeng I'm working outside, I fire up iPeng on a docked iPod then control it from my iPhone. I played with Pause some more: With iTouch4/iOs6 as the streamer, switching off "Preserve Connection" allows Pause to work properly, but the iPod disappears from the Multiplayer Control screen when the playlist ends (so down the ladder I go). With iTouch5/iOs7 as the streamer it doesn't matter what "Preserve Connection" is set to, Pause comes off after ~1 min 50s. > Artwork - I like having the artwork, I just never need it taking so much of the screen if controls would be bigger otherwise. Obviously it's useful to have but I give it less priority. Volume Buttons - Quite. Logitech went for the shorter slider with buttons at the ends, which works ok for me, I find sliders to be a pain. They move when you first put your finger on them, they move again as you lift off, if you press them wrong they think you want to mute etc. iPeng has space for -/+ buttons above the slider, outside the fwd/back buttons, though I guess that might confuse people (I know, an Option! I'd pay $1.99 for that any day of the week). I tend to use iPeng to create & run my playlists, but then if I'm at a desk / table I'll switch to the Logitech app so I can tap volume buttons quickly rather than finesse a slider. Accelerator keys - Not for me. The longer you press the button makes it acts differently. If your fingers aren't clean it can take a few goes to get a touchscreens to respond, so sometimes it would do one thing and sometimes another. Options - Yes. I look at half the existing ones and wonder who would want that. But then if the app worked the other way to how I have them set, :( Skins - If you're considering dark / light skins, pleeeease don't change the Artists / Genres etc list to only offer White on Black, or horror of horrors some thin grey font on a grey background. That's strictly for 20 yr old eyes. Power Buttons - Funny you should mention them, I tried using that instead of the Pause button, but the player just came back to life all the same. Last - Sorry to keep adding new Qns but here goes - Is there a trick to being able to change the order of options under More? If I press Edit then try moving an icon it just flicks back to where it came from. Used to be more of a thing on the old iTouch 4 'cos Favorites wasn't on the first screen, with the 5 it fits. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ianto39's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17079 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
