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

[From: Tapani Pälli]

ext Vladislav Grinchenko wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
You can find cut/copy/paste from input method's submenu. It should work
on all text-fields.

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

> 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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// Tapani