And what about the things the AUX button is used now?
one short button tap = close the app.
one long held button = pop up the menu.
two short taps == something else, like switch apps.
etc.
Call your problem 'too few buttons' and i'm with you. But i just
don't get your point here.
The point is: Power Button = Turn the computer off, and on. Oh, and
also, close apps, and .. Arrgh! Not Sensible!
Don't you see the danger here? Surely, we are all competent computer
users .. but I can't give Pops this thing and tell him, use the same
button to close the app that you used to turn it on and off, and not
expect him to chuck the thing away in frustration every time he gets
a darkened screen when all he wanted to do was make a call.
Please, by all means, ignore what I have to say about this. My point
is, power button does not a good primary-user-interface make, unless
all the computer does is go on and off.
i mean, think about it, please, just for a second. you have
designed a computing system whereby the systems primary power
button is *also* the means by which apps are managed. in two
words: not good. not good at all.
Call it the On/Off button instead of Power button and everything
makes sense... ;-)
This is venturing into pointy-haired boss territory ..
Why waste one of only two buttons because you think a device needs
a dedicated Power button?
.. and I'm seeing Ratbert snickering in his cubicle at just how dumb
humans can be ...
Remember. TWO buttons! No way to use them without multiple actions.
(long klick, short klick)
Right, so can we use power button for the very purpose that every
power button in history has been used: to turn the thing on and off.
And leave Aux, which is, after all, auxiliary, and thus *not* fatal,
for some creative debounce? Pretty please?
The point is moot. Two buttons poorly designed do not a total
solution make. I just hope we can avoid the issue devolving even
further, is all ..
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Jay Vaughan
