2012-07-03, 18:44
(2012-07-03, 18:21)pingomister Wrote: I am not surprised with the criticism that MQ4 has received. This is a major skin redesign. I think that if users were asked, in advance, if they would trade adding items to the main menu for having it all concentrated in a single "My Menu", most would probably decline.What shortcuts do you want on the main menu?
However, the "My Menu" feature and the possibility of re-organizing all items are welcome. But being unable to add new items to the main menu, or create more than one "My Menu", are very questionable design choices.
The new sub-menu in the home screen (with quick personalization), is very squared and doesn't feel "organic". Same goes for items in the top menus in the home page: instead of showing live thumb previews of all items, all we see is a small rectangular button (barely visible actually), and the thumb preview is shown only when scrolling through each item. Same as in Recent Movies or episodes or whatever: we do not get a visually appealing preview of all items, only small rectangles. Scrolling through the main menu becomes boring: you have to press "up" to see thumbs and details of items or Add-ons. This is not visually impressive at all.
Another thing that Aeon MQ4 falls short in comparison with Aeon Nox is the amount of widgets available. Of course, MQ4 is lighter and faster, but not that much really.
Still, changes can certainly be made, before the official release, to make MQ4 more visually interesting and more flexible in terms of customization, if Marcos wishes so. Congratulations anyway for all the work.