[maemo-developers] Feature request for Application Menu In Thumb To Take 2 Columns

[From: Johan Bilien]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007, Urho Konttori wrote:
> This problem may already have been discussed, but in case it's not,  
> here's my contribution:
> 
> When I use a thumb to click on the left side application menu in home  
> view or
> application view, what I get is a list of 6 icons. 4 top ones are the  
> media
> player, rss feed reader, images and file manager. If I want to ,  
> say , open
> calculater, I have to scroll down the list (which is painfully slow)  
> and then
> eventually encounter the utilities and from there the calculator.  
> But, let's
> say I wanted some app from extras. Even longer scrolling and then  
> list of
> extras apps. Again 6 apps. Say I wanted the 8th app. Again, scrolling.
> 
> Solution:
> When I click on the application menu, take immediately more width for  
> the menu
> and assemble the icons in two columns. Thus, user will see 12 icons
> immediately. No need to scroll, as the 1st level menu is less than  
> 12. Ok,
> click on one of the folders if further need.
> Again, open in two column mode and show all apps at the same time. If  
> user
> wants to navigate to first level, he/she only has to press the  
> application menu
> item again.
> 
> This would improve the thumb usability tremendously on N800.
> 
> Bug id:
> https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556

The two-columns menu is already available in Sardine, if you wanna take
a look. It's pretty much as you describe here.

-- 
Johan Bilien
<jobi at via.ecp.fr>