Bugzilla – Bug 12360
Remote skin - 10ft (large text) should not display icons in most cases
Last modified: 2009-10-28 09:25:49 UTC
For the large format (10ft) UI adding icons to the left of menu items reduces clarity and readability. Suggest using iconlist templates for Home and Album screens only. Settings, My Music sub-menus, etc. do not benefit from added icons. In most cases, icons reduce the number of characters viewable on screen. Limiting icons to specific screens will also help distinguish areas of the UI to help the user know when they have reached home.
Let's see some screenshots, noah.
Screenshots of the behavior I proposing we avoid w/ icons?
The reason the SB Classic can be considered a "10ft" UI is that it has 2 things going for it: 1. It is very high contrast with a fixed, unified single black background. 2. It is TEXT only using an extended landscape format- ideal for long text strings.
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The decision on this falls primarily to Weldon and Dean. My suggestion from a readability standpoint and overall visual clarity is that adding icons is not always a win. On the "10ft" UI and especially Jive, icons simply add unnecessary padding of the text. More often times than not the text will be cut-off and need to scroll. If we did NOT localize text for non-English speaking countries then I would be a huge proponent of icons. Icons are great, however, when real-estate is limited icons are more or less "fat." Dean- Do you still want to see screenshot comparisons of icons and without?
This might require a meeting/conversation with Dean, Matt, and myself...
Dean- reassigning to you for final decision.
Reset priority before triage.
Yes, noah, some screen shots as you propose it should be.
Assigning to Weldon for final directive. 25cents: Remove icons from large font skin (10ft) in ALL cases. Icons are not legible from 7ft+ away and only serve to cut-off text further. Albums view is only proposed exception. In this case, color and composition are bold and different enough to provide navigational aid at far distances.
Settings -> Choose Player should keep icons.
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #7960 to the jive repo by bklaas == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=7960 == Fixed Bug: 12360 Description: show icons in Choose Player menu on large text skin Choose Player and Album listings are the only windows that show left-hand icons in the large text skin now I'm considering this bug fixed