[maemo-developers] Fremantle user interface behaviour and API

[From: Sergio Villar Senin]

Graham Cobb escribiu:
> On Friday 22 May 2009 18:20:55 Sergio Villar Senin wrote:
>> Modest uses a pannable area which contains the text editor. Thus it's
>> not possible to select text in that way in Fremantle. You'll have to use
>> the keyboard.
> 
> Not having experienced this I don't want to overreact but ...
> 
> Are you saying that in Freemantle there is no easy way to select and copy text 
> out of an email to copy into somewhere else?  E.g. copying a phone number or 
> address into a contact, copying an email address from a forwarded email into 
> the destination of another email, copying a portion of a URL (the base URL 
> without all the tracking junk included) into a web browser, copying the 
> directions for a meeting into a separate email, copying some text and a 
> picture from one email into another?

As Claudio said you can use the keyboard for copy&paste (kill&yank)
operations.

Regarding Modest, take into account that we're trying to reduce as much
as possible the need of copy&paste. In order to do that, we try to
identify as much as possible the relevant information for the user by
"hyperlinkifying" things like email addreses, phone numbers, sip
addresses. Clicking on those links could trigger external applications
like contacts applications, web browsers, IM applications, SIP/VoIP
applications or whatever is installed in the system.

And if the information comes in the form of an attached file, then there
is no problem as you could archive it using Modest.

Br