CF standard Navi skin

**SOS** · 09-23-2006, 03:31 PM

Am I the only one who finds the layout of the Navi skin a bit too "wide"?

I always drive "up" in a navigational map, and therefore have greater interest in what´s ahead of me instead of what´s left and right to me.

The standard skin already has the menu bar and the lower music-navigation bar taking up space, and obviously most people are running this on a widescreen monitor, so shouldn´t the info and navi buttons be placed to the left/right and free up more space for the vertical part of the map?

I did some crude ugly pictures here, but nobody commented, does this mean you all find the current skin perfect?
Navi plug-in

**LEiPiE** · 09-23-2006, 06:43 PM

Would definitely be interested

Although I'm running 1024x768, I do think having as much vertical space as possible available would be handy!

**holybob** · 09-28-2006, 05:22 AM

I know what you mean about wanting to look ahead. The dilema is looks vs functionality. The whole CF package looks and feels good because all the menus look the same - even though D6 is a different app, it doesn't feel like it. But, menus to the side would add more functionality.

So, get skinning and then we've got the choice!

Bob

**SOS** · 09-29-2006, 04:01 PM

First of all I suck at graphics and have never tried skinning nor want to spend a ton of time learning it :-)

I´m just going for the best out-of-the-box solution...

**justintime** · 09-30-2006, 10:04 AM

It takes roughly 2 hours of someone's time to adapt the current skin to do what you want. Assuming that is someone who knows what they're doing.

If I ever port the Navi screens to my Nexus skin, I will definitely consider putting the buttons on the right to get more vertical space as you have mentioned...