[maemo-developers] Fremantle user interface behaviour and API

[From: Cornelius Hald]

On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 14:11 +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> In principle that feature is not officially supported in Fremantle,
> and adding support in HildonTextView might create inconsistencies
> between similar-looking apps/dialogs that could be quite confusing.
> 
> But of course we can reconsider it (I don't have the last word,
> though). I'll see what we can do.

Well, if there is any chance to reconsider, that would be great. I
myself would be very happy and I think a bunch of other developers too.
I mean a big scrollable/panable text view is quite common for a lot of
applications. Mail clients, ebook readers, word processors, chat
programs, etc. all profit from copy&past for which we need a way of
selecting text.

And while I'm on it, I think a flag for enabling/disabling this feature
would be good as well. Then for example I could turn selections and
editing off when in portrait mode and turn it on if in landscape mode.
This way it would be easier to create read-only (or limited) UIs when
the device is in portrait mode.

Thanks for caring :)
Conny