On Friday 11 September 2009, William Kenworthy wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 10:35 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:21:31AM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 19:12 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 07:39:02PM +0200, arne anka wrote: > > > > > > Then where do you have any "OK" button? > > > > > > > > > > ok, it's called "quit". > > > > > > > > And it's utterly useless, in fact I'm thinking of writing up a > > > > few small-screen usability recommendations for our friendly apps. > > > > > > > > One of them is: don't use "quit/close/..." buttons, they waste > > > > valuable eral estate and you can close the windown easily in an > > > > alternative way (panel, click on close). > > > > > > > > Rui > > > > > > Hooray - sense at last. Coming up with a user oriented interface, not > > > a programmers idea of what he personally likes will be a great step > > > forward. I like close buttons, but consistency is more important I > > > think. And please, please get rid of those dumb sliders used where > > > radio buttons are used :) > > > > A slider makes more sense (at least to me) than a radio button with > > two options :) > > > > Rui > > Might be cultural preference perhaps? To me a slider means an analog > value, on/off and similar are discrete, unconnected values so should be > represented as such.
I remember physical slider switches with 2 to 4 discrete positions, so perhaps it seems more natural to me. The same goes for 3-position toggle switches and multi-stop rotary switches. > Also, I cant remember any other HCI interface that uses sliders like this. The iPhone is the obvious one, though I first remember seeing them on audio software that was trying to look like a physical effects unit and/or synth. > I am also biased in that the slider designs used in shr dont work well - > when using a finger they often require multiple swipes before they work, > or you "miss" the active area all together - especially when moving and > you are trying to set a slider while walking/carrying other items, ... Are you thinking of the buggy wifi switch in shr-settings? You'd probably be just as upset with the same code on a checkbox when it refused to change state when you clicked on it. I suspect the intent behind the slider is to get around the unintended button clicks when trying to drag-scroll, but it may just have been cosmetic. I don't have the same trouble you do operating them in the absence of bugs, but that comes down to preference, habit and finger size I guess. I don't know if E is sufficiently flexible to theme around the problem. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community