Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-06 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote: > For instance font-sizes should imho be adjustable by the app, not > locked to a theme. I do believe, it is also beneficial to adjust the overall look to it. My view is pretty much summerized in jimmac's blogpost: http://jimmac.musichall

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-04 Thread Jon Kristian Nilsen
Ok, I feel I have to say this now: Guys, you *cannot* take my proposal and expect it to look cute when you re-size and fit them in a phone window, there's a reason this is a mock-up. I think all areas in my proposal are more than readable, have you compared to android or iphone for instance? I don

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-04 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
I wouldn't mind to have a separate theme with great contrast, large buttons etc. One theme doesn't have to suite everyone... r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-03 Thread Adolph J. Vogel
> > You completely missed my point. I see many old people, when they look > at their phone, they take an *eyeglasses* to be able to navigate or > dial a people from the phonebook. > I agree, although im not *old* I do wear glasses for reading. Since I dont need the glasses for anything but readi

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-02 Thread Jon Kristian Nilsen
>Also soon, a suspend button will appear on the launcher at the bottom >right corner (in the current git, there is already a picture, but not >a real button). >The reasoning is simple, when you use your phone everyday (as I am), >you want to suspend it *fast*. Without going to the illume icon view

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-02 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: > About the information density & 4 lines text too small - Why not use > the full 5 blocks (= 60% of the screen area) of space to show > information when you select one of the menu items. I like this idea. Also soon, a suspend button will ap

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-01 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
About the information density & 4 lines text too small - Why not use the full 5 blocks (= 60% of the screen area) of space to show information when you select one of the menu items. It's not much use to show 'Telephony, messaging, connectivity and config' texts, if you've clicked on 'people'. The i

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-01 Thread Jon Kristian Nilsen
>In your proposal there is no place for bigger texts. It is that simple. >It needs to rethink some part of the gui. No code will help here. I will take a look at what could be improve on, in regards to what has been mentioned here. >Sorry I dont understand it. Plan for what exactly? Well you se

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-01 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:36 PM, EdorFaus wrote:> > This approach doesn't work. Especially the blurring is wrong. > > The Freerunner screen has a lot more pixels in the same physical size, > so it is much sharper than your computer screen - resizing down like > that loses information, and then the

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-01 Thread Fabian Killus
> Just some remarks;) > > 1: Try to put these pictures on the Freerunner, to see how it feels. > There are view > image viewer out there, or you can even write a simple elementary > application for it. > > On my 15.4" laptop, the freerunner screen is equal to a 176x235 pixel > rectangle. So if y

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-01 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote: >>So could you please repost your proposal with much bigger texts?;) > > I believe your approach to this is wrong, my mockups contains elements that > for sure needs to be taken care of in the code, > this includes, if im not mistaken, tex

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-01 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Laszlo KREKACS wrote: Thanks Laszlo for your comments - Jonkristian don't let him press you down, there's a lot of good in your layout! But it might be a good idea to try some of this at Freerunner (neon is a nice image viewer) to see the sizes etc. > 3. No ide

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-01 Thread EdorFaus
Laszlo KREKACS wrote: > 1: Try to put these pictures on the Freerunner, to see how it feels. > There are view > image viewer out there, or you can even write a simple elementary > application for it. Did you try this yourself? I just did. (I used Neon (package om-neon) as image viewer, clicking t

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-01 Thread Jon Kristian Nilsen
>So could you please repost your proposal with much bigger texts?;) I believe your approach to this is wrong, my mockups contains elements that for sure needs to be taken care of in the code, this includes, if im not mistaken, text styles, sizes, shapes of boxes etc... Have you layed out a plan f

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-01 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
> Just some remarks;) Also could you post all your icons as separate .png files? With a reasonable license. GPL is required for paroli. (but you can dual-license, release it as public domain, etc) Best regards, Laszlo ___ Openmoko community mailing l

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-01 Thread fredrik normann
Very nice +++ -f- On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Dan Staley wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Steven Le Roux wrote: > >> It's just Brilliant !! >> I would love to use that ! But maybe it should be a different project than >> paroli because I think it more than a theme which is needed to

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-01 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote: > Now these are just mock-ups, but ihmo pretty god ones. I've spent quality > time thinking about user friendliness and what I'd like to see:) Ofcourse > I've probably missed Just some remarks;) 1: Try to put these pictures on the Free

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-10-01 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Dan Staley wrote: > Those ideas look great!  But I agree with Steven, I think it would require > much more than a theme to get that functionality working. I dont think so. Best regards, Laszlo ___ Openmoko community ma

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-09-30 Thread Dan Staley
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Steven Le Roux wrote: > It's just Brilliant !! > I would love to use that ! But maybe it should be a different project than > paroli because I think it more than a theme which is needed to approach your > mockups > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Jon Kristian

Re: Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-09-30 Thread Steven Le Roux
It's just Brilliant !! I would love to use that ! But maybe it should be a different project than paroli because I think it more than a theme which is needed to approach your mockups On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:26 PM, Jon Kristian Nilsen wrote: > Long overdue, but here it comes:) > > As mentioned

Paroli Theme/UI proposals

2009-09-30 Thread Jon Kristian Nilsen
Long overdue, but here it comes:) As mentioned a couple of times on irc, I've been working on a few ideas I've had regarding paroli. What got me interested in this was the post to the ML some time ago: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-May/048133.html Now these are just mock-ups,