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RE: Great Skin - No 5-Way
I like it too; I just think the Jump Bar crowds out the Navigation view a bit too much. I'd rather have kept the look of the original Sleek for the Navigation view, and just tacked on the Playlist and Album Art views.
It's still a great design though, and (IMHO) a much better mobile music experience than you'll get on a dedicated mp3 player, ala` iPod.
Tim
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Lazy?
Bad lazy developer, Bad!
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RE: Lazy?
The client provided several Palm handhelds for testing, including the LifeDrive and Tungsten T5.
I risked missing project deadlines to incorporate dynamic sizing. Our team thought the full screen view of patient data would impress our client and help our client impress its clients during sales calls. It took two days to learn how it worked and 15 minutes to 4 hours to incorporate it into each form. It also added additional testing time to ensure dynamic sizing support didn't break the application on legacy devices.
When we demonstrated dynamic sizing, our client responded, "OK." They immediately continued their line of questioning to ensure that (a) the data on the screen was accurate and (b) the feature set is equal or better than their competitors. Little else mattered.
On sales calls, we urged the client to demonstrate the application on the LifeDrive or T5 in landscape mode. The client demonstrated our application on Treo smartphones because smartphones are the neat, new, cool thing. The LifeDrive and T5 stayed in the office.
RE: Lazy?
This is a consumer application which they already have a Green Version of the skin but don't put out a Red or Blue one. See the skin is already made they just need to change the freakin' color.
4 hours to incorporate into a form. Ah yea right. Better pull that Palm OS for Dummies book out one more time.
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RE: Lazy?
The PDA-Palm Sneetches had none upon thars.
Their screens weren't so big; they were really quite small.
You would think such a thing wouldn't matter at all.
But because they had phones, all the Treo-Palm Sneetches
would brag, "We're the best kind of Sneetch on the beaches."
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Great Skin - No 5-Way
However, this comes at the expense of 5-way nav. Where, in the old sleek version, the 5-way could be used in the standard Treo method to move around the UI and choose songs from the playlist, toggle repeat or shuffle, and do other typical nav tasks. The new "enhanced" version, however, has relegated the 5-way to an iPod like control, where volume, skip, etc. are the only tasks it can perform.
NormSoft was excellent in addressing this issue in on their Yahoo list, however, suggesting a future update may re-introduce the 5-way nav. (Hopefully, and especially, in the play list view).
Other than that, I think the skin is a great improvement and it has become my skin of choice.