[Gta04-owner] Finger-friendly UI experiment

[neil at ossau.homelinux.net]

Hi Neal,

It's an interesting thought.  I have a 770 and N800, so I'm familiar with Hildon and I had noticed that it's all nicely packaged in Debian now - kudos to the long suffering Maemo/Meego community for that!

Also it's designed for a landscape UI, and I personally would prefer a landscape UI, as I've mentioned before.

But on the other hand:

- so far I haven't managed to bring X up in landscape (and I don't believe anyone else has either)

- with the GTA04 screen, my feeling is that the Hildon UI elements might take up too much screen space, leaving less for the application

- in any case, the point for me is to have _any_ working finger-friendly UI, so as to enable more experimentation and usage without a stylus.

Therefore I think I probably won't try Hildon just yet.  I'm more interested next in getting things like GPS, Bluetooth and Wifi nicely integrated and working.

      Neil

(Apologies for top posting - it's a restriction of my current mobile device.)


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-----Original Message-----
From: "Neal H. Walfield" <neal at walfield.org>
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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:58:39 
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Subject: Re: [Gta04-owner] Finger-friendly UI experiment

Hi Neil,

At Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:09:01 +0000,
Neil Jerram wrote:
> I've been experimenting with trying to put together a simple 
> finger-friendly UI, using components already available in Debian.  I 
> think it's maybe worth sharing, so I made a short video to show it: 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdXlN9WentY.
> 
> Hope it is of interest...

That looks great.  Have you looked at Hildon, which is used on Nokia's
N900?  It's all free software and has a better solution, I think, for
task switching: instead of using a hardware key, there is a button on
the top left of the screen that activates the task manager.  (Nokia's
N9 uses swipe down from the top of the screen to activate the task
manager, however, I find that I too frequently inadvertently switch to
it.)

:) Neal
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