2009-12-28, 10:57
OK here some suggestions that came to my mind during my first steps with Xperience:
What I find a bit confusing is the way the "view specific settings" work. You can e.g. choose between straight and slanted wall view but you first have to press "Arrow Down" to get to the slanted option and then you still have to press "Enter" to activate it. Took me about 5 minutes to figure out that I had to press "Enter" after pressing down. At least for me it would be more intuitive if the option you see is automatically the active option.
The options for the ripples and logos at the bottom right of the screen is similar. If you choose "Enable static logo" it removes the so far chosen options for "Enable clock", "Weather Logo", and "Enable Custom Logo". Wouldn't it be better to have something like a "drop down" menu from which you can choose one of the available options (maybe done the same way as for the "Enable Panels" options)? Btw you should decide whether to use "Logo" or "logo"
Which leads me to the way "Disable Panels" and "Enable Panels" works: Why do they always show a "disabled" circle? Why does it change to an "enabled" circle when I press "Enter" to see the sub-options? Would it be possible to remove the auto-hide of the sub-options as soon as you move down to the next top-level option? Because when I open the "Enable Panels" option and move down I get to the end of the visible options and I don't know if there is another option below it (there isn't as "Now Playing" is the last one). So I press "Arrow Down" once again and expect to see another sub-option but what happens is that all the sub-options vanish and "Custom Home Panel Icons" is highlighted. So I have to go back to "Enable Panels", press "Enter" and move through the sub-options again.
Maybe I'm the only one but it is absolutely not how I'd expect it to "work" and I first had to play with it to realize how it works and why all the sub-options suddenly vanished.
I know I wrote to much and maybe I'm a bit of a lazy guy and love intuitive user interfaces so ignore my comments if they ask a bit too much
What I find a bit confusing is the way the "view specific settings" work. You can e.g. choose between straight and slanted wall view but you first have to press "Arrow Down" to get to the slanted option and then you still have to press "Enter" to activate it. Took me about 5 minutes to figure out that I had to press "Enter" after pressing down. At least for me it would be more intuitive if the option you see is automatically the active option.
The options for the ripples and logos at the bottom right of the screen is similar. If you choose "Enable static logo" it removes the so far chosen options for "Enable clock", "Weather Logo", and "Enable Custom Logo". Wouldn't it be better to have something like a "drop down" menu from which you can choose one of the available options (maybe done the same way as for the "Enable Panels" options)? Btw you should decide whether to use "Logo" or "logo"
Which leads me to the way "Disable Panels" and "Enable Panels" works: Why do they always show a "disabled" circle? Why does it change to an "enabled" circle when I press "Enter" to see the sub-options? Would it be possible to remove the auto-hide of the sub-options as soon as you move down to the next top-level option? Because when I open the "Enable Panels" option and move down I get to the end of the visible options and I don't know if there is another option below it (there isn't as "Now Playing" is the last one). So I press "Arrow Down" once again and expect to see another sub-option but what happens is that all the sub-options vanish and "Custom Home Panel Icons" is highlighted. So I have to go back to "Enable Panels", press "Enter" and move through the sub-options again.
Maybe I'm the only one but it is absolutely not how I'd expect it to "work" and I first had to play with it to realize how it works and why all the sub-options suddenly vanished.
I know I wrote to much and maybe I'm a bit of a lazy guy and love intuitive user interfaces so ignore my comments if they ask a bit too much