Menu images for H10 ?

[quiksilver]

Is there a way to introduce images for the menus like the old firmware(but of cousre much better looking)? If there is I would like to get into developing it for the H10... Any info is appreciated.

Peace out

Quik

[XR6]

I was also thinking about this the other day. I reckon that it would be awesome if there was a similar layout to the original firmware menu with better pictures plus extra menu options that only Rockbox offers ie. plugins

[Angryman_H10]

No, theres no way to do that.

[XR6]

Originally Posted by Angryman_H10

No, theres no way to do that.

Why is that?

[Angryman_H10]

Because rockbox was started in a time where no graphical interfaces where possible for the players... Now the players developed further and rockbox, better said the devs do the best to make it as much as possible compatible for all available players, so all graphical investigations are till now optional and are taken out from the core... There is a new thing planned called viewports, which should enhance the graphical possibilities of rockbox. But this will take some more time maybe half a year maybe one year thats not sure... Anyway you should always remember that rockbox is open source and depends on the efforts of the devs. So it depends on them, which tasks are worked out and which appear to them to be important. I must say that i think a graphical menu has no top priority thats just a minor investigation but nevertheless it means changing a lot of code. So it's not time for a thing like that.

[quiksilver]

Allright there go my dreams....

[TheKind_H10]

So, let's create a new rockbox project!
We're.. 3 and we will manage to do it

Me? Get out? Okay ^^

[DD]

If you are confident and fluent in C? Go ahead.

I know you're only joking, but during conflict with that stupid simplebox idea it was said by the Rockbox team that Rockbox forks were perfectly acceptable, but they would have to be a complete separate entirety to Rockbox.

[Mad Cow]

Whatever happened to simplebox? Did it just get ignored until people lost interest?

[DD]

If you want to read the whole debate, here's the Rockbox forum thread...
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=6582.0

The initial idea may have had something good in it, but some of the actual proposals where quite ludicrous... some people backing it basically wanted to turn the Rockbox UI into an iPod firmware clone . I think this from early on in that thread summed it up quite nicely...

Originally Posted by bazmonkey

Looking at the proposal, this would be a very complicated undertaking for essentially a new UI and less features. And with you having no coding experience (or, as you said yourself, a willingness to even get online often), you're going to have a very hard time finding someone to, uh, do it for you, basically.

Specifically, though, what don't you like about Rockbox's UI? You scroll through your filesystem to what you want to play (be in a playlist, movie, image, or music), and play it. It's not pretty and graphical, but it's not unintuitive. Really, is starting in your filesystem and navigating to the file you want to play (or through tagcache to the artist/album/track you want to play) really easier than hitting a little music note button that says "Music" on it, and then navigating to the file or track you want to play?