[maemo-developers] OSM2Go & finger friendliness (was Re: Reduce fremantle button spacing)

[From: Quim Gil]

Hi,

ext Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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. 

As Claudio says,
http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/pre-alpha/apis/libhildon-2.1.24/hildon-hildon-gtk.html#hildon-gtk-button-new
allows you to define the size you wish overriding the
very-finger-friendly defaults.

The Maemo UI offers a default, developers are able to go for
alternatives. No need to repeat in maemo-developers the 'stylus wars'
debate we are seeing these days in ITt.

But speaking opf OSM2Go, I do think it is suitable for finger usage and
I would encourage the project to think it twice. I'm a fan of this
application and I'm willing to help giving ideas and testing.

Your app is "2Go" and genuinely mobile. You are targeting several
platform being Maemo the primary one. I guess mobility and touch are
implied in the rest of platforms primarily supported.

Yes, a stylus might be useful when it comes to draw lines in a map but I
really wonder how frequent is in reality that use case compared to
adding information to current maps. You do this by hitting a coordinate
(and you have zoom), selecting a type of information and typing the
infor related to it. Drawing is more for the end of the day, at home,
with all the data you gathered while being on the Go... and probably you
are going to prefer to do that still in front of your laptop.

-- 
Quim Gil
open source advocate
Maemo Software @ Nokia