On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:32:17 +0400 "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yo...@debian.org> said:
> > I wrote a small > > dialer in python gtk and use normal applications from debian > > (gpe-calendar, xvkbd keyboard, midori/firefox/arora/elinks browsers, > > xchat, icewm window manager). This has give me a pretty stable "no > > surprises around corners" environment with lots of applications and > > let me to concentrate on helping kernel, Xorg and ogsmd development. > > Is your environment finger-friendly? > > > Btw, I all WMs I've tried until now, either try to resize any window to > become full-screen, or just keep windows size as is (so part os out of > screen). Both ways make parts of windows inaccessible. Especially > configuration dialogs. Tried E17 configuration dialogs (with font/scale > set to something visible without a microscope), especially in "more > options" mode? > > Why not just add scroolbars (in the WM frame I mean)? > Especially for configuration dialogs. So if an app was not originally > written for small screen, it could still be possible to reach everything > in it's window. because screen edges are very hard to access thanks to the bevel, and in x (without conflicting with the apps own scrolling - and that then is only with xevie). also because i just never wrote code to do it. i considered it but as i couldnt do "finger scrolling" (middle of the window - swipe to scroll) i chose not to try and push the work back onto the app to adapt to a limited window side. in reality - apps should probably handle this themselves. i know e's config dialogs mostly dont fit - but that is a todo item. it's being worked on -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community