What do you want the non-functional DEL-button to be?

gerraldo · 06-14-2009, 01:40 PM

The DEL-button has been non-functional from the first release of the CyBook. Please, let's vote everybody and let Bookeen know that we want them - at least - to give it a useful functionality.

It couldn't be that hard, to direct the button press to an already existing function! Maybe it's even not to late for the upcoming FW release...

Everybody who has other ideas or additional thoughts on the DEL-button, let us know in this thread.

Abelturd · 06-14-2009, 02:12 PM

I want it to be user customizable to do any of the things mentioned and more.
It's an electronic, not a mechanical device with pulleys and cogs and gears to do only one specific thing. It can do many. I mean it could do many.

Billi · 06-14-2009, 03:58 PM

As a lefthander I would appreciate it very much if Netronix or Bookeen could arrange the bottoms on the left side as this:

1 (now music): page back
2 menu
3 back
4 (now empty): page forward

The music menu could be implemented in the main menu (or left out at all, I don't know how many or how few listen to music with a cybook).

By the way: Is the non-functioning button a problem of Netronix or Bookeen?

Billi

Pulp · 06-14-2009, 05:19 PM

I want all the buttons except navigation and menu to be customizable.
I would like to have the choice to use +/- for next/prev page , I want to add remove bookmarks, lookup and I want to change it based on what I need most at the moment.

gerraldo · 06-14-2009, 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pulp

I want all the buttons except navigation and menu to be customizable.
I would like to have the choice to use +/- for next/prev page , I want to add remove bookmarks, lookup and I want to change it based on what I need most at the moment.

Wait... oh no, stop... it's that dream of HOT ice cream again!!!

Just joking, it's completely OK - you're allowed to dream...

Abelturd · 06-14-2009, 06:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gerraldo

Wait... oh no, stop... it's that dream of HOT ice cream again!!!

Just joking, it's completely OK - you're allowed to dream...

Remind me, please, who started this thread?

HarryT · 06-15-2009, 05:52 AM

I see that the leading answer in the poll indicates that many people are happy with it doing nothing

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kacir · 06-15-2009, 06:15 AM

The button should send an automatic bug report to developers with carbon copy to all bookeen employees "Severe Bug! User has pressed the DEL button and the bug prevented him from deleting an item"

Abelturd · 06-15-2009, 07:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

I see that the leading answer in the poll indicates that many people are happy with it doing nothing .

The function "do nothing" has already been implemented and how thoroughly at that, it's the most reliable one on cybook, kudos Bookeen.

delphidb96 · 06-15-2009, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abelturd

The function "do nothing" has already been implemented and how thoroughly at that, it's the most reliable one on cybook, kudos Bookeen.

Yep. You've got a point there!

Derek

fjf · 06-15-2009, 03:25 PM

I agree.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Billi

As a lefthander I would appreciate it very much if Netronix or Bookeen could arrange the bottoms on the left side as this:

1 (now music): page back
2 menu
3 back
4 (now empty): page forward

The music menu could be implemented in the main menu (or left out at all, I don't know how many or how few listen to music with a cybook).

By the way: Is the non-functioning button a problem of Netronix or Bookeen?

Billi

Snuffi · 06-16-2009, 04:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Billi

As a lefthander I would appreciate it very much if Netronix or Bookeen could arrange the bottoms on the left side as this:

1 (now music): page back
2 menu
3 back
4 (now empty): page forward

The music menu could be implemented in the main menu (or left out at all, I don't know how many or how few listen to music with a cybook).

By the way: Is the non-functioning button a problem of Netronix or Bookeen?

Billi

Pretty sure it's a Bookeen problem. Netronix only delivers the device plus basic firmware (kind of like a really basic operating system). I am sure that the system events (or interrupts) for the button are there and that the operating system recognises that the button has been pressed, it just has nothing to report the button press to. It is Bookeen's job, however, to write some code telling the device what to do when that event has been triggered and "connect" it to that event.

Even though I am not a left hander myself I would also vote for the above button mapping. With clumsy fingers and button pressing in narrow spaces like the tube you can easily get the wrong direction or the menu. A separate button for page forward would be very convenient.

GeoffC · 06-16-2009, 05:28 AM

I'm honestly not too sure at the moment - so I've chosen 'user-definable'.

One thought would be a 'shuffle' function that manipulates the library display (when they sort it). On the current display it would be useful to move right/left one page at a time, instead of one book as at present.....

Krystian Galaj · 06-16-2009, 07:34 AM

It would be best if all the buttons were user-definable, and reset was returning the definitions to default (to avoid the possibility of bricking the Cybook).

Idoine · 06-16-2009, 07:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj

It would be best if all the buttons were user-definable, and reset was returning the definitions to default (to avoid the possibility of bricking the Cybook).

Though I voted for a Definition mode button, I agree with you : I'd like personally to use the Music buttons on the right (I don't listen to music on my Cybook, I have other devices to do that !) to move from library page to library page, as suggested by GeoffC !

View Poll Results: What do you want the non-functional DEL-button to be?
lookup in dictionary	13	24.07%
set a bookmark	11	20.37%
mark books read/unread	3	5.56%
a DEL-button or nothing	21	38.89%
just copy some other button	0	0%
something completely different (leave message)	6	11.11%
Voters: 54. You may not vote on this poll

06-14-2009, 01:40 PM	#1
gerraldo Anti-DRM Advocate Posts: 351 Karma: 960 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Vienna/Austria Device: CyBook Gen 3, Palm Tungsten T3	What do you want the non-functional DEL-button to be? The DEL-button has been non-functional from the first release of the CyBook. Please, let's vote everybody and let Bookeen know that we want them - at least - to give it a useful functionality. It couldn't be that hard, to direct the button press to an already existing function! Maybe it's even not to late for the upcoming FW release... Everybody who has other ideas or additional thoughts on the DEL-button, let us know in this thread.

06-14-2009, 03:58 PM	#3
Billi Wizard Posts: 3,388 Karma: 14190103 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Berlin Device: Cybook, iRex, PB, Onyx	another function As a lefthander I would appreciate it very much if Netronix or Bookeen could arrange the bottoms on the left side as this: 1 (now music): page back 2 menu 3 back 4 (now empty): page forward The music menu could be implemented in the main menu (or left out at all, I don't know how many or how few listen to music with a cybook). By the way: Is the non-functioning button a problem of Netronix or Bookeen? Billi

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06-14-2009, 02:12 PM	#2
Abelturd Little Fuzzy Soldier Posts: 580 Karma: 5711 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Nowhere in particular. Device: cybook gen3, htc hero, ipaq 214	I want it to be user customizable to do any of the things mentioned and more. It's an electronic, not a mechanical device with pulleys and cogs and gears to do only one specific thing. It can do many. I mean it could do many.

06-14-2009, 05:19 PM	#4
Pulp Palm Addict Posts: 477 Karma: 1001951 Join Date: Aug 2008 Device: Cybook Gen3 [512mb, FW: 1.5]	I want all the buttons except navigation and menu to be customizable. I would like to have the choice to use +/- for next/prev page , I want to add remove bookmarks, lookup and I want to change it based on what I need most at the moment.

06-15-2009, 05:52 AM	#7
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	I see that the leading answer in the poll indicates that many people are happy with it doing nothing .

06-15-2009, 06:15 AM	#8
kacir Wizard Posts: 3,455 Karma: 10484861 Join Date: May 2006 Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20	The button should send an automatic bug report to developers with carbon copy to all bookeen employees "Severe Bug! User has pressed the DEL button and the bug prevented him from deleting an item"

06-16-2009, 05:28 AM	#13
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	I'm honestly not too sure at the moment - so I've chosen 'user-definable'. One thought would be a 'shuffle' function that manipulates the library display (when they sort it). On the current display it would be useful to move right/left one page at a time, instead of one book as at present.....

06-16-2009, 07:34 AM	#14
Krystian Galaj Guru Posts: 820 Karma: 11012 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Warsaw, Poland Device: Bookeen Cybook	It would be best if all the buttons were user-definable, and reset was returning the definitions to default (to avoid the possibility of bricking the Cybook).

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