2012-10-10, 19:35
re: stretched icons - NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEVER NEVER EVER!!!!!!!!
button functionality: the way it was originally designed, pressing 'M' brings up the menu with pause highlighted. Granted most of us already have play, pause, chapter skip, etc coded to a remote. BUT, what if we don't have a remote. Think touchscreen for a tablet. Then those controls are actually needed. Personally, one of my goals is to eventually have this skin touchscreen friendly.
Also, as it is now, pressing 'M' brings up the menu. Press up 1 time and the focus jumps to the gear.
So how bout this for a compromise, rather than adding another little control at the bottom, have the interface default to the settings icon when 'M" is pressed?
That way it goes 'M', Enter and you're in settings.
Also, by adding the thin pull up at the bottom, it introduces another problem- Overscan possibly hiding the control. For example, on my plasma, I have it set to dot for dot so that I get a true 1920x1080 picture from the PC. But, I also have the pixel orbiter on so that every few seconds, the pixels shift. Potentially, if the control is too thin and the orbiter is in just the right position, I couldn't see the control at all.
Another example, under Win 7, the little show desktop button on the lower right, sometimes I can barely see it.
And................ Let's not forget, cramming controls right into the edge of the screen isn't something that's really Apple-esque. Apple tends to have their controls more centered, far away from the edges so the end-user can easily see/use them. The mods I've made so far enforce this byway of a 'safe-zone'. I won't put any controls or important graphical info within the 30 pixel safe-zone. Just for the reasons I stated previously.
or maybe I'm just nuts? That's the thing with desinging GUIs, it's all subjective
button functionality: the way it was originally designed, pressing 'M' brings up the menu with pause highlighted. Granted most of us already have play, pause, chapter skip, etc coded to a remote. BUT, what if we don't have a remote. Think touchscreen for a tablet. Then those controls are actually needed. Personally, one of my goals is to eventually have this skin touchscreen friendly.
Also, as it is now, pressing 'M' brings up the menu. Press up 1 time and the focus jumps to the gear.
So how bout this for a compromise, rather than adding another little control at the bottom, have the interface default to the settings icon when 'M" is pressed?
That way it goes 'M', Enter and you're in settings.
Also, by adding the thin pull up at the bottom, it introduces another problem- Overscan possibly hiding the control. For example, on my plasma, I have it set to dot for dot so that I get a true 1920x1080 picture from the PC. But, I also have the pixel orbiter on so that every few seconds, the pixels shift. Potentially, if the control is too thin and the orbiter is in just the right position, I couldn't see the control at all.
Another example, under Win 7, the little show desktop button on the lower right, sometimes I can barely see it.
And................ Let's not forget, cramming controls right into the edge of the screen isn't something that's really Apple-esque. Apple tends to have their controls more centered, far away from the edges so the end-user can easily see/use them. The mods I've made so far enforce this byway of a 'safe-zone'. I won't put any controls or important graphical info within the 30 pixel safe-zone. Just for the reasons I stated previously.
or maybe I'm just nuts? That's the thing with desinging GUIs, it's all subjective
