bluegaspode;502395 Wrote: > 7.4.2 and 7.5 introduced a new 'feature' - that is - > > when an alarm goes off and you click 'alarm off' in the corresponding > window the popup vanishes, but the audio keeps on playing > (https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14578) > > I finding this pretty unintuitive (and consider this a bug). > I expect to have the audio off, when I stop the alarm. > This is the default behaviour of every other alarm clock in the world > ! > > Now in the morning I have to cancel the alarm-menu and in addition need > to press one more button to stop the audio. All this when I just woke up > and can't find any button in a dark room (display of the radio is still > dim, also backlit buttons are missing as we know). > How I able to explain THIS to my wife ? > > One possible solution would be to have 3 option 'Snooze', 'Stop alarm', > 'Continue Listening' (as of > https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14620) - at least the > variants are labeled correctly then. > > BUT: having three options would make me need to think and look at the > display even more in the morning. Remember: when waking up the display > is dimmed and actually you can't read the menu-options - so I don't > consider it good solution either: > > Right now I got used to: > Snooze: Press the big knob > Alarm off: Tuuuuuuurrrrn the big knob und Press. > > This I can do without looking at the display and also when I'm not at > full mind when just waking up. > > > I wanted to know, how others see this ?? > > - do you know any other alarm clock, that doesn't stop the sound when > you stop an alarm ? How is it solved there - is this the default mode or > do they have extra buttons ? > > - do you favour stopping the audio or do you prefer having the audio go > on, when you stop the alarm ? > > - could you handle three menu options in the morning ? > > - How do Boom and other devices handle this (we want to stay > consistent, don't we ?)
There should be 3 choices -- stop alarm, snooze or continue listening. That was the original bug. -- eap ------------------------------------------------------------------------ eap's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32788 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73506 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
