[Gta04-owner] Finger-friendly UI experiment

Neal H. Walfield neal at walfield.org
Mon Nov 14 12:47:15 CET 2011


At Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:51:39 +0000,
neil at ossau.homelinux.net wrote:
> Also it's designed for a landscape UI, and I personally would prefer a landscape UI, as I've mentioned before.

In my experience, it works quite well in portrait mode too.

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

I'm not sure which elements you mean.  If you want finger friendly
buttons, they need to be a certain size (although a smarter tool kit
may help some)...

> 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.

Sure.

:) Neal


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