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Originally Posted by mathil
Personal opinion: Clock - good, Menu - don't like it. It just... doesn't look good. I can see how it would be easier to press/access the home/my books tabs from the bottom but does it have to look like that? It also takes up an awful lot of space and makes the Books/Authors etc. pages look very crowded IMO.
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For the record, I also dislike the new navigation. As you mentioned, it makes most of the views appear quite cluttered. In addition, the changes made to accommodate it either waste space (see below) or look off-balance (the library scrollbar).
The menu has resulted in even more space being wasted than I originally thought. They've also put the browser into this tiny pop-up window with quite a bit of padding. This will be fixable with NickelMenu, but you'll probably lose the address bar (I might be able to do something about that, though) ... and you'll need to add a separate home button or you won't be able to get out of it without a reboot.
And speaking of NM, I've been making good progress on updating it to work with the new navigation. I've managed to make it work by showing a custom tab to the right of "More" named "NickelMenu". This tab will show a pop-up menu when pressed with all the menu_item:main items. IMO, it actually makes the bottom nav look slightly less skewed since it makes the buttons appear more square. All that's left is testing the other actions, as even though pretty much all of them still work or can be easily updated, some of the working ones act differently with the new navigation. If everything goes as planned, I expect to release NM v0.3.2 by tomorrow night along with the patches.