pippin wrote: > I assume you are talking about the NowPlaying screen? > I don't understand. The home button is still there (just below to easier > to reach on 4" screens) and the power button also always has been there, > it's just redesigned because people indeed didn't understand that the > icon was a power button. The change is that there is an additional > "play" button so that you can use it from the main screen without having > to pull the tab down :) > > 16190 > I attached a screen shot, there used to be a little house icon for > "home", can't see anything like that anymore, just power, play/pause & > back. Is the back button the home button? > > I never the realized the tab incorporated a power button. Would have > moaned about that a long time ago :) > > And it's by no means redundant, it has different functionality (group > power vs. individual power and "power of all" on "hold"). > No, the reason for the change of the header bar was twofold: > 1. We could not find a design that looked even remotely appropriate for > iOS 7 but still had a player tab that didn't use the full width of the > screen. Tried around 10 designs, all of them dead ugly. > > You needed a lot more hello kitty colors to do iOS 7 justice. And some > bling animations. > > 2. There's also a space problem on the main screen. The "back" buttons > in iOS 7 take much more space than before so if we wanted to keep them > (instead of going to a plain icon) we needed to get that bigger, that's > why they got moved out of the corner next to the tab. > > You have to ask Apple. That's not iPeng and there is no way to avoid it, > it's automatically generated by iOS, probably because there is no API to > tell an App that you disabled cellular, the OS ALWAYS reports cellular > as available, even if you enable the block. Whenever an App has ever > accessed the internet, this message comes up when cellular data is > blocked and there are a lot of cases where iPeng at least has to try to > reach the internet, for example checking whether it's registered on > MySqueezebox.com. > > I see, it was the same in the old iPeng too, I turned data back on. AT&T > will be happy. > > What is the "Preview" button? > > Ah, when the appstore says "NowPlaying button with preview on iPhone", > that's where Penguin got the boot, replaced by the now-playing artwork / > stream image. I hoped it was to do with the requests from a while back > to be able to preview tracks before adding them to the playlist. > > > Well, since iPeng was the first remote out there they should have had > all the time in the world to copy it :) Ye'know: the matra is things > need to be "intuitive" so that on the first try you immediately > understand it. Doesn't matter that this costs you perpetual annoyance > for an App you use 20 times a day, it's that once minute to learn a new > scheme you need to save upfront.... > > If review the other products I like to say "why can't it just do what > iPeng does, and iPeng has loads of Settings too". > > No, really. I've got enough change requests for these sliders by now > that implementing all of then will leave you with a slider the size of a > button :) They shall be aligned so no longer than the indented one. And > the one with the AirPlay button. Plus volume buttons. It'll be > unusable. > > > Well, some of my all-time-favorite change requests: configurable main > menu, color schemes, better multiplayer-handling, support for LMS 7.9 > (libraries! composers!), single-thumb-use, a universal App, completely > new iPad UI,.... There's quite a bit. > > I'll believe you. > ...
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