On Nov 18, 2007 4:20 PM, Olaf Lüke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, yes you do ;-). Since the second version of the GUI you can > close applications with pressing the power button shortly. If you press
IMO that's a very strange, and very unintuitive way to close applications. If the user is expected to close the app when he's finished with it, there needs to be an obvious close button on the GUI. What I noticed is that you can click near the top left part of the screen to get the menu of running applications, and switch to another one. So I assumed the idea was that you should not have to close apps yourself. Maybe the launcher will close apps automatically, to manage memory as necessary? So whenever memory is running low, it closes the least recently used apps... something like that. If data which the user has entered or changed is always saved immediately, this is not dangerous, and it's beneficial to the user to have his favorite apps always running (as long as there is enough memory). And when an app is auto-closed, it's easy enough to launch it again the next time you want it. Then the apps all need good "session management" - remembering the exact state of their views when they are closed, and restoring that state when they are re-opened. E.g. the browser should remember which sites are open, and to what point they were scrolled; the contact list should remember which contact was visible; etc. This approach will further reduce the impact of auto-closing: when the user launches the same app again, he gets the same view again, just as if it was never actually closed. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community