[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] User interface stuff on maemo.org

[From: Vladislav Grinchenko]

Tuomas, 

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 05:56, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> I just wanted to quickly introduce myself to the list. I'm happy to see
> many familiar names here as well.
> 
> It appears that my job involves helping you guys, when you are porting
> or developing applications on the 770. Since I am mostly a user
> interface and graphics person, feel free to ask for comments / ideas /
> help when you are pondering about the user interface of your project.

welcome! We need all the help we can get. I'll throw in my 2c:

1. Because there is no mouse, the popup menues are out of picture.
However, many apps are coded with Copy/Cut/Paste in mind at no expense
provided with right-mouse click. It would be extremely useful to place
Cut/Copy/Paste icon triplet someone on the desktop permanently so that
any application can have it accessible without sacrificing its own space
on the screen.

2. The geometry of a dialog is distorted by the virtual keyboard
activation. When the keyboard is hidden, the geometry should be
restored.

3. Application installer needs a major facelift:
 a) for one thing it should take the whole screen. 
 b) also, installed applications should be sorted by name and their
versions placed in a separate column. 
 c) error messaging is so utterly poor, it leaves the end user utterly 
bewildered - we need a detailed explanation of what have happened so
that the end user can notify the developers of the failure (better yet,
e-mail or file bug report right on the spot with wifi connection).


hope this helps,
-- Vlad
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