Re: Preference pane and the future of Cog
And then let me get in my two cents.
I use cog as a player for temporary playlists. Usually audiobooks, that I don't need lined up in a library, but can load as needed. Sometimes I use it for listening through audio files with interviews and edited sound clips. What I like about cog is, that it is lightweight, it opens instantly. What I want it to be is something different than iTunes, which I use for my music.
Regarding the preference pane, I don't mind the split pages. I usually leave it alone (Do you guys change stuff often?) and I think it would be confusing if they were all in the same page.
Even when Cog grows up and becomes an extendable demon, that can make my coffee with the right plugin, I think I will leave it alone. I like that it is small, but at the same time I like the dream of being able to add just that little feature, that not so many people would want. When I first got Firefox I thought 'extensions, oh well', and moved on happy with browser, that could browse. Maybe the same will happen with Cog, someone makes a plugin, that I didn't know I needed.
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The separator line issues are a mistake on my park - when I resized the window it cut 'em off. And I did forget a separator - as you can kinda see by the spacing.
I also don't know how to do a mockup with a toolbar on top - Interface Builder only shows me that screen, and had all the tabs in separate windows. I would say the above page would be called "General", then we'd have a "Hot Keys" tab, and then tabs for whatever plugins decide to add a tab.
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Last edited by kagaku (2008-05-13 16:51:37)
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I love it! 
Simple, clean, friendly and still presents all the necessary options.
The best part about this: if preference-crazed users start demanding preference options for everything, there's still plenty of room to add pages to the window.
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I also like it. I think the updates should have their own pane... But I don't know why I think so. It looks a lot simpler, than I thought it would
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Too many separators for my sight...
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Might need a bit more space between the Apple Remote section and the Update Feed section, and between the Update Feed section and the Output Device section.
Other than that, IMO, it looks OK.
But I wonder what Vincent thinks of this though...
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+1 to remain's latest comments except I'd give it more than OK. I think it beats the pants off the current design.
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The line free one is cleaner. I like it better.
Another thing. Is the update place immediately understandable? I have never seen this way of doing it before, and though I like it, it might confuse someone... a little.
What about:
Update : (x) automatically check for updates on start up
Feed : Dropdownmenu?
Or maybe version instead of feed?
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Perhaps just changing the "Update feed" to simply "Updates:" would be enough. I think the dropdown with "Stable" and "Development" is pretty self-explanatory.
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Yeah, that might do it.