Philip Meyer;502791 Wrote: > >Most alarm clocks show the time as it always appears when an alarm > goes > >off (and there is a separate snooze button). > > > And no alarm clocks have a pop-up dialog offering a stop alarm option! > > >Perhaps the screen when an alarm fires should be the normal (or near > to > >normal) clock screen (as chosen by the user) -- with a small menu > option > >for snooze. > > > Should be whatever the user configures as the alarm screensaver, so it > could be a multitude of different clock displays, Now Playing screen, > etc, or a dialog offering a stop option if that's really wanted. > > >Not being able to easily see the time when the alarm goes off, almost > >defeats one of the main points of having the alarm go off at a set > >time. > > > Very true. > > >Turn off alarm menu choice is NOT needed, since we all know the > >pause/stop button and the power off button. If snooze is needed, > make > >it smaller and the TIME larger. > > > I agree. Alarm off (with/without stopping music) is not needed, > because there's two buttons on the front of the device that are easy to > access already. > > There is also an alarm timeout option (so alarm can auto stop after <n> > minutes). Setting alarm timeout to 0 should mean that when the alarm > fires, it's no longer in alarm mode and the music plays in normal mode > without alarm off/pause/continue stuff. > > Phil I completely agree with this.
Regarding alarm screen savers, Ben attached a patch in this bug report earlier that makes it possible to do add alarm screen savers as third party applets: https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14970 However, for the next release if we want to prioritize, I think the current solution with off meaning "turn off alarm and stop music" and back button meaning "exit alarm popup screen without stopping music or alarm" will work good enough. I think it's important to remember that spending time making this user interface perfect takes up time that can be used for other more important issues. IMHO the primary function of the Radio is to play music not to trigger an alarm, so I'd rather want to prioritize perfecting the interface towards the music library. It's of course important that the alarm actually plays in 100% of the cases when it has been programmed to play but that's already handled in other threads. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73506 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
