[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Screen real estate Was: Qt + KDE port

[From: Marcelo Oliveira]

 Roger,

You're pretty right. On the real device, fonts aren't that big ( the menu 
text is smaller than the series 40 mobile fonts ),
the tick border takes about 2mm. The device screen size is : 9cm x 5,5cm. 
Menu entry has the smaller posssible height ( half cm ) if it was smaller it 
would be a real pain to select it.

I think we should cara a lot more for the end user ( tha casual surfer ) 
than for ourselves.

For sure there are some improvements that can be made on the actual GUI, but 
I think font size, and GUI dimensions aren't the most important ones.


Best Regards

Marcelo Oliveira

On 7/8/05, Roger Sperberg <rsperberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Nathan Turnage wrote:
> > Everything should be scaled down a little bit. The fonts 
> > are a point or two too large,
> 
> 
> I've been experimenting with representing the screen realistically in 
> online documentation -- it's 800 pixels wide but it's also only about 4 
> inches wide.
> 
> An 800-pixel wide screen capture shows all the pixels, but is 8 inches 
> wide on my 100-pixel-per-inch screen. Making it 4 inches wide cuts the 
> number of pixels by 75 percent. The type might be realistically sized, but 
> it's far less readable with so few pixels than it will be on the device with 
> its reported 225 ppi.
> 
> While your remarks in general make sense about not wasting space, I think 
> reality may bang headlong with the theory. Me, I'm waiting to have one of 
> the physical devices in my hand before I decide what type size is optimal.
> 
> That said, I too hope for more and beautiful fonts. What IS the situation 
> about loading additional fonts?
> 
> Roger Sperberg
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