[maemo-developers] Reduce fremantle button spacing

[From: David Greaves]

Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 20:36, Till Harbaum / Lists <lists at harbaum.org> wrote:
>> fremantle increases button sizes significantly to make them more
>> finger friendly. However, some applications like osm2go are imho
>> not suited for finger usage and those big buttons thus waste
>> screen space.
> 
> I don't know the answer to your question, but the "right" answer would
> be to redesign the application such that it /was/ suited for finger
> usage. That's the direction the platform is going in and consistency
> between applications on Maemo should be pretty high up everyone's
> priority lists IMNSHO.

Disagree.

I think you propose a possible answer - but although the platform should be
striving to make it very easy to develop finger-friendly applications, I am
*firmly* of the belief that it should not prevent or hinder those who see
mobility of stylus-based apps as a tremendous benefit that the tablets provide.

If the gtk or Qt frameworks forced things like minimum button size that (IMNSHO)
would be making a huge blunder :)

(And I'm betting the answer is something like a larger default setting for the
equivalent of http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qapplication.html#globalStrut-prop -
but I guess you use gtk)

David

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