[maemo-developers] Re: Future features for Maemo Desktop (Task Navigator, Home, Status bar)?
Hi, On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:04:44 -0500, Ted Gould wrote: On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Karoliina Salminen wrote: I am now collecting some ideas for future development of the UI framework. I'm not sure if this is a framework thing, but in general, I'd like to see better offline support. I second that. I realize the goal is Internet tablet, but sometimes I like pulling the data, and reading it offline. Things like reading my e-mail on the bus or a plane. Also, syncing. I'd like to be able to sync my contacts with my phone, my desktop, etc. There is rsync. It could be preconfigured for syncing home, though... Or do you mean more? Also, as applications like Dates or GPE develop more, sync my todo list and date book also. I think that something like OpenSync could be part of the base platform -- especially from the perspective of running a background process to acknowledge requests from the external computer or phone. What do you mean by Acknowledge Requests? I start the sync program, it syncs :) cheers, Danny ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
[maemo-developers] Re: Future features for Maemo Desktop (Task Navigator, Home, Status bar)?
Hi, On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:33:12 +0200, koos vriezen wrote: [...] The second issue is more a think-about thingy and that's the scrollbar. I think that scrollbars don't port so well for touch screens (and no mouse). Scroll keys would help but are often for other usages. I like the panning with the stylus in the body area of the web browser, though. I like the - and + buttons for page up/down and the click-to-go gauge of FBReader in rotated (portrait) mode very much for reading books. I think the old X style MMB, that when cliched actually scrolled to that position, is already a big improvement. Like the bar in FBReader? It has a gauge (progress bar) like: [###] showing the current position and if you click for example here: [###] ^ here it will scroll to that position and [## ] That's nice for wide area scrolls (like, finding a chapter). For small area scrolls, the + and - buttons are very fitting (I take it that they originally meant zoom, but in portrait mode they are just too comfortable for scrolling :)). cheers, Danny ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
[maemo-developers] Re: Future features for Maemo?
Hi, On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:47:18 -0400, vern wrote: [...] Ola, Here is *my* top 10...there is every chance that some/all of these are implemented/thought about already and I just haven't discovered them yet but like you say we are shooting for the stars,no . 2. I want working virtual desktops. I think the application switcher (taskbar) is more than enough... 4. I want a hardware button called copy and another one paste Do you really use copy+paste that often? I use it once every full moon, whilst I use scrolling every five seconds :) 6. Add a download manager - for example gwget2 - by default I vote for urlgfe. I searched for a good download manager for ages, and this is it. Not sure if the nokia 770 needs a download manager, though... Depends on the use cases :) cheers, Danny ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
[maemo-developers] Re: Future features for Maemo Desktop (Task Navigator, Home, Status bar)?
Hi, On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:53:09 +0200, Johan Bilien wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2006, Frantisek Dufka wrote: I would also like the icons in statusbar not to be hardcoded and limited in number. If there are more status bar applets that available space I would sugest to have some light clickable arrows on left or right side and temporarily pop-up next icons down or to the left over window name. Errr. Show a overflow items popup menu, you mean :) Or maybe scroll them in place? Tiny scrollable areas are evil. This feature is being developped in Sardine as we speak nice :) cheers, Danny ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
[maemo-developers] Re: Future features for Maemo Desktop (Task Navigator, Home, Status bar)?
Hi, On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:53:34 +0200, Niels Breet wrote: [...] -The ability to have more than 5 icons in the statusbar or the ability to collapse them? (not sure how that would work out) If that works anything like grouping in the win32 taskbar, it works out really really bad. Grouping unrelated stuff bad. -The ability to make the left bar with icons smaller in a theme? I'm not sure how it would look when smaller, but _the ability_ can't hurt :) cheers, Danny ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
