@Triode, I really like the HD Grid skin for browsing my album library, and I can get used to some of the setting menus being a grid instead of a linear list, but I really dislike the current playlist being a grid. The playlist is one place where a -list- is really called for in my opinion because, well, it literally is a sequential list, unlike the album view where, even though the items may be arranged alphabetically, I am really searching -visually- for the cover art corresponding to an album I want to hear.
However, when in the playlist screen, I often want to quickly assess where I am in the sequence of tracks, but with the current scheme, I have to mentally translate a matrix address into a linear offset ((current_row-1) * 6 +position_in_current_row). This arguably constitutes "cognitive overload" as UI designers like to say, and at any rate doesn't feel natural. Furthermore, when playing full albums, the current playlist is typically filled with 12 to 18 repetitions of the same album artwork, but the distinguishing details of each track are in a small font that simply can't be read at a typical listening distance. Hence, this concept doesn't really work practically as a 10 foot (3m) interface, which I think is desirable since all the other screens do. I do like jivelite, and think the HD grid skin has a lot of merit. I just wish I could have the old, list-style playlist screen back again, combined with the benefits of selecting albums by artwork from a grid as you currently have it. ---------------------- "Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98156 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
