[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Qt + KDE port

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

On 7/5/05, Timo Steuerwald <timo.steuerwald at gmx.de> wrote:
> Nils Faerber schrieb:
> 
> I had already holded the device in my hands at the Linuxtag. I know the
> display has a really impressive solution, but nevertheless the UI
> elements and the font of the menu is really very big. 

I'd rather say they are comfortably big targets to poke at, but I
guess that's more a question of preference than a hard number...

> Because I have still good eyes, I don't think this size is really needed
> for me. :-)

Hope you have a steady hand too.

> Furthermore I don't know if it is userfriendly to browse a
> website in full screen mode and then for navigating switch to common
> screen mode and after this back to full screen mode and the again to
> common screen mode...

Mostly one can "navigate" with links on the web site (on good sites at
least :), but since the fullscreen can be toggled with one click of
the fullscreen key, I wouldn't see it as a major issue (when compared
to the additional screen estate you get).

> - Because internet sites are optimated on desktop
> resolutions, the difference between these two modes can be still big in
> this area. In some cases between "website useable" and "website unusable".

Websites are unusable for far more annoying reasons than simple
resolution optimation. Incompetent web designers are hardly something
that can be considered when designing an UI. If a website is broken in
720 pixels, it will be that in 760 or 780 pixels too.

-- 
Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi