Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Lord
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 10:17 -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Esben Damgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But for some more hardcore stuff: You shouldn't have to close programs. This is not good usability. Instead give the option, but if we run out of ram, the OS

Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

2008-03-13 Thread Esben Damgaard
man, 10 03 2008 kl. 13:27 +, skrev Thomas Wood: Today Application - The current today application has three pages. A summary screen, an application list and a running application list. My suggestions are: * Remove the running application list - this is a desktop

Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

2008-03-13 Thread Esben Damgaard
tor, 13 03 2008 kl. 10:17 -0700, skrev Shawn Rutledge: [...] Interestingly, now that the iPhone SDK is out, I read that it runs only one app at a time! So no multitasking. (Hopefully they at least made it possible to play music in the background while you are doing other things. That must

Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

2008-03-13 Thread Clarke Wixon
Thomas Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree, users will want to use and abuse the address book application, and the best application will allow them to do that without being a burden to the majority use cases. In the interests of getting something stable and usable as quickly as possible, I

Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

2008-03-12 Thread Thomas Wood
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:26 +1100, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:27:35 + Thomas Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: [...] We only spent one day in the office designing these applications, because at the time they were only going to be proof of concept ideas. Therefore, we

Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

2008-03-11 Thread Thomas Wood
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 13:51 +0100, Marcus Bauer wrote: I'm using the Neo on a daily basis and am developing for it, I'll add some of my experiences here. It'd be great if you have a chance to look into any of the issues you've raised as well, from a development standpoint. * Add a

Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

2008-03-11 Thread Bobby Martin
This is pretty straightforward, but I think it's worth mentioning: - The dialer app should start up virtually instantaneously. It would be nice if the media player did too, but it's essential for the dialer. - I should be able to add numbers from my call history as contacts. - I

Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

2008-03-11 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:27:35 + Thomas Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I've been thinking about the usability of the GTK+ based OpenMoko applications and I have come up with some suggestions I'd like to implement. We only spent one day in the office designing these applications,

Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

2008-03-10 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Thomas Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The icons in the bar at the top of the screen should not be interactive, as they are too small to use with a finger. This means all the top icons should not respond to clicks and it should be used for displaying status

Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

2008-03-10 Thread Rodolphe Ortalo
Le lundi 10 mars 2008 à 13:27 +, Thomas Wood a écrit : I've been thinking about the usability of the GTK+ based OpenMoko applications and I have come up with some suggestions I'd like to implement. [...] Theme - The biggest problem with the current theme is performance. The main

Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

2008-03-10 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Rodolphe Ortalo ha scritto: Le lundi 10 mars 2008 à 13:27 +, Thomas Wood a écrit : I've been thinking about the usability of the GTK+ based OpenMoko applications and I have come up with some suggestions I'd like to implement. [...] Theme - The biggest problem with the current theme

Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

2008-03-10 Thread Thomas Wood
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 10:53 -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Thomas Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The icons in the bar at the top of the screen should not be interactive, as they are too small to use with a finger. This means all the top icons should not

Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

2008-03-10 Thread Thomas Wood
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 21:42 +0100, Rodolphe Ortalo wrote: Le lundi 10 mars 2008 à 13:27 +, Thomas Wood a écrit : I've been thinking about the usability of the GTK+ based OpenMoko applications and I have come up with some suggestions I'd like to implement. [...] Theme - The

Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

2008-03-10 Thread Thomas Wood
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 22:56 +0100, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: Rodolphe Ortalo ha scritto: Le lundi 10 mars 2008 à 13:27 +, Thomas Wood a écrit : I've been thinking about the usability of the GTK+ based OpenMoko applications and I have come up with some suggestions I'd like to

RE: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

2008-03-10 Thread Tim Newsom
-Original Message- From: Shawn Rutledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 10:53 AM To: Thomas Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: openmoko-devel openmoko-devel@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications snip This is contrary to expectations, based