WizardStan
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Hence my poll.It's currently showing a significant but not yet valid 21% of people with problems. That's a lot more than I thought there'd be.
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I agree. I mean I can handle arrow keys, but that's it.
crosspoint
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At least it's another evidence for that you don't have to remember symbols or letters but instead the location of the gaming buttons. It's annoying when half of the menus are using the right button for 'confirm' and the lower button for 'back/close' while the other half of the menus invert this. This is more of a problem for me as a user than thinking about which letter or symbol is meant to be pressed.
Of course you can discuss this topic as long as you want. But in my opinion this whole discussion leads to nothing and in the end we will still have the Pandora layout and everything will be fine. Note that this is just my opinion - am I not allowed to express it?
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Right now, that's 8 votes of 39 total votes.
And only 5 of them (13% currently) mention they have regular problems, others state they were confused at first but have no problems now after they are used to it.
We should wait until there are more votes cast, I think. 39 is a really low number.
Maybe everyone got tired of repeating "Let's change the Pandoras layout for whatever reason"-polls, after the result of the first three polls was to keep it (in every single poll).
Wouldn't make me wonder, it's really tiring how some try to force a change over and over and over and over again.
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God Ginrai
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I do agree that this poll needs time to be seen before we can really tell anything from it.
Honestly, I believe _wb_'s reason for creating the polls was not an attempt to force a change, but to bring discussion about the issue to a consensus. That way, you would have some information to consider, and we could all discuss other things.
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Maybe we should just use the current Pandora guihint images as Pyra button labels. Including the dots.
and something with diagonal dots for the two extra buttons.
Or instead of dots, we could use /\ \/ |< >| or something like that.
and something with diagonal dots for the two extra buttons.
Or instead of dots, we could use /\ \/ |< >| or something like that.
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Not as cool as the Captain Planet buttons, but not a bad idea.
The arrows are actually a good idea, yes.Maybe we should just use the current Pandora guihint images as Pyra button labels. Including the dots.
and something with diagonal dots for the two extra buttons.
Or instead of dots, we could use /\ \/ |< >| or something like that.
I agree.
Tenka
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"North", then?
Or just say "Y button" or even "Y game button" and hope the listener/reader won't get confused.
Use guihints when possible, otherwise fallback to latin letters (ie. graceful degradation).
Saber
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Of course you don't, but on the real life hardware the buttons won't look as pretty as they do in the graphic and we have the backlighting now to contend with per input.
Tenka
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Compass directions as secondary button names works now that all six buttons are placed according to a primary four, the new ones can just be northwest and southwest. These don't even have to be on the buttons for them to be understood, and game or program documentation using either name shouldn't cause any confusion. If a game uses both the keyboard and the game buttons together it may be a good idea for that game to refer to the game buttons by their directions, while if a Pandora game is ported over it'll be just fine leaving the normal directions the same because those letters will still be on the buttons.
