On Thursday 05 May 2011, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 5. Mai 2011 13:33:35 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: > > On Thursday, May 05, 2011 09:43:06 Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > > Me and my ideapad with Kontact Touch were alone on a train... > > > > > > Because of QML I could do a quick hack to address a major usability > > > problem: It is too hard to hit the flaps on the left. > > > > > > The changes outlined at the bottom will make the flaps slightly wider > > > and the interface uglier, but for me this is a large usability gain. > > > This works a lot better on the n900 or HTC Touch Pro2 because someone > > > can slide in from the left side. For whatever reasons this does not > > > work on the ideapad. I don't know about the exopc slate or the weetab, > > > but I guess a slightly larger flap can also help there. > > > > I haven't tested the changes, but widening the flaps seems > > counter-intuitive to me. I'm running Kontact Touch on a Wepad, and the > > biggest UI problems are: > > > > - flaps too wide, hard to reach the second column > > How interesting! > Maybe we use it differently: > Because the idepad is a netbook that can be changed to a tablet, the frame > around the display is realtively thick, the frame is not on the same depth > level as the screen. So I cannot slide in unto the touchscreen in from the > left and I am using my finger.
that's exactly where the problem is. "real" tablets always have just a flat glass over the whole area (bigger than the screen), so is easy to hit the very edge of the screen. actually, swiping from outside the screen area is a quite common and convenient gesture. i would seriously not waste time to adapt an ui to the shortcomings specific of the ideapad, device that will really have zero value other than be a development machine. Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Kde-mobile mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-mobile
