Upcoming moOde 8.2.3 release (Q4)

[Tim Curtis]

Hi Tim,

It made by the Waveshare from China, I set it up be the clock function now. I want to change it be the moode display if the ultra wide screen can work on this layout. It will pretty cool!

Here are the setting:

hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=87
hdmi_timings=400 0 100 10 140 1280 10 20 20 2 0 0 0 60 0 43000000 3

Thanks Tim!

Are you going to actually use this as your primary screen to control moOde?

[chano22000]

[...]  I think you mean having both the time and volume knobs showing. It could be done but the knobs become very tiny which makes the UI look very odd. [...]

Hi Tim,

You are right. On the previous Moode versions the interface looked the same (with both time and volume knobs) on a 13,3" 1920x1080 laptop screen and a 6,7" 2400x1080 smartphone one (even though the W/H ratio are a bit different : 16/9 vs 20/9). Interface was very usable on the smartphone being used as a remote while listening.

That would be nice to get back the previous screen design on a smartphone by restoring the (old or current) PC based one !
 



Thank you so much for Moode and your involvment as well as the Moode team contributions to make it always better !

Best regards.

Philippe

[Nutul]

[...]  I think you mean having both the time and volume knobs showing. It could be done but the knobs become very tiny which makes the UI look very odd. [...]

Hi Tim,

You are right. On the previous Moode versions the interface looked the same (with both time and volume knobs) on a 13,3" 1920x1080 laptop screen and a 6,7" 2400x1080 smartphone one (even though the W/H ratio are a bit different : 16/9 vs 20/9). Interface was very usable on the smartphone being used as a remote while listening.

That would be nice to get back the previous screen design on a smartphone by restoring the (old or current) PC based one !
 



Thank you so much for Moode and your involvment as well as the Moode team contributions to make it always better !

Best regards.

Philippe

The only problem being the aspect-ratio...
Everything can be rescaled and fitted to a 16:9 or even a 20:9... but the sizes, and usability would most likely be compromised... a 4:3 display is the most usable for the NowPlayng screen (that shown here above), while a 20:9 is the best for library browsing, easily allowing for genre + artist + album colums to be shown; although the height of the lists themselves is almost useless, being anything between 3 and 5 rows... I think I gave the idea.

@Tim Curtis is doing an excellent work, but we all must agree that there are some (physical, and ethical) limitations to what can be done, and by "be done" I actually mean "be done well".

Cheers, Al.

[Tim Curtis]

[...]  I think you mean having both the time and volume knobs showing. It could be done but the knobs become very tiny which makes the UI look very odd. [...]

Hi Tim,

You are right. On the previous Moode versions the interface looked the same (with both time and volume knobs) on a 13,3" 1920x1080 laptop screen and a 6,7" 2400x1080 smartphone one (even though the W/H ratio are a bit different : 16/9 vs 20/9). Interface was very usable on the smartphone being used as a remote while listening.

That would be nice to get back the previous screen design on a smartphone by restoring the (old or current) PC based one !
 



Thank you so much for Moode and your involvment as well as the Moode team contributions to make it always better !

Best regards.

Philippe

Rearranging the UI for smartphones screens is done using the Browser viewport size and not the screen's physical resolution.

Run the command below and then refresh the Browser. The viewport size will appear in a popup notification.

Code:

# Show viewport
moodeutl -q "update cfg_system set value='viewport' where param='pkgid_suffix'"

# Hide viewport
moodeutl -q "update cfg_system set value='' where param='pkgid_suffix'"

Also what make/model is your smartphone?

[Tim Curtis]

Hi Tim,

It made by the Waveshare from China, I set it up be the clock function now. I want to change it be the moode display if the ultra wide screen can work on this layout. It will pretty cool!

Here are the setting:

hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=87
hdmi_timings=400 0 100 10 140 1280 10 20 20 2 0 0 0 60 0 43000000 3

Thanks Tim!

Here are some screen shots using the media query.

       
   

[Alfred76]

Hi Tim,

Look really really good!!  I save it to put on the screen. 

   

[chano22000]

Hi Tim,

Thank you for your post regarding the landscape mode on recent smartphones. Here are the expected answers :

Run the command below and then refresh the Browser. The viewport size will appear in a popup notification.

==> Viewport size (in portrait mode) : 412x736 as reported by moodeutl  (nice tool )

Also what make/model is your smartphone?

==> Samsung Galaxy A71 (6.7" screen, 1080 x 2400 pixels, ratio 20: 9, 393 pixels per inch)

Thank you for what can be done in restoring the previous screen (= the one that curent version displays on a  PC screen) !

Have a nice day.

Philippe

[Tim Curtis]

Hi Tim,

Thank you for your post regarding the landscape mode on recent smartphones. Here are the expected answers :

Run the command below and then refresh the Browser. The viewport size will appear in a popup notification.

==> Viewport size (in portrait mode) : 412x736 as reported by moodeutl  (nice tool )

Also what make/model is your smartphone?

==> Samsung Galaxy A71 (6.7" screen, 1080 x 2400 pixels, ratio 20: 9, 393 pixels per inch)

Thank you for what can be done in restoring the previous screen (= the one that curent version displays on a  PC screen) !

Have a nice day.

Philippe

It's a strange looking layout to my eye but in any case to support this layout and the new universal landscape mode would be complex and so it's a no-go for me.

   

[chano22000]

Hi Tim,

Looking at your simulated screen, I understand your feedback. But the viewport size assigned to the Galaxy A71 (914x412) is WRONG. As reported by modeutil and confirmed by whatismyvieport.com, the viewport size of the Galaxy A71 is 736x412 (which is by the way similar to the 736x414 of several iPhones).

In previous versions, the design of the interface displayed on my laptop fitted perfectly my smartphone screen in landscape mode whitout any visible cropping. I am not a developer, but does it mean that in the new version the same style could be applied for both PC screens and (some) smartphones ?

Hope is what makes us live !

Best regards.

[Tim Curtis]

Hi Tim,

Looking at your simulated screen, I understand your feedback. But the viewport size assigned to the Galaxy A71 (914x412) is WRONG. As reported by modeutil and confirmed by whatismyvieport.com, the viewport size of the Galaxy A71 is 736x412 (which is by the way similar to the 736x414 of several iPhones).

In previous versions, the design of the interface displayed on my laptop fitted perfectly my smartphone screen in landscape mode whitout any visible cropping. I am not a developer, but does it mean that in the new version the same style could be applied for both PC screens and (some) smartphones ?

Hope is what makes us live !

Best regards.

I also tested the full UI on 736 width and it suffers from the same usability issues as 914 for example the text in most parts of the UI is way too small, several UI elements are crammed right at the screen edges, the volume knob is still very small and challenging to operate accurately, etc, etc.

My goal for smartphone landscape was to create a universal layout that looks great, is easy to use, has widespread applicability and reduced code complexity and maintenance. The full UI on smartphone landscape doesn't meet those criteria and so its a non-starter.