One small correction below: On Tuesday 02 October 2007 11:24:25 Kenneth Wimer wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2007 01:13:42 Spencer, Bob wrote: > > Ken, > > I've got a working start for your UI. It comes up as the home screen > > and I can launch apps. Attached is your drawing > > (KenWimer_HomeScreen3.jpg) and some screenshots from the working one > > (kwwii_*png). (Ignore my marquee for now) I just snagged your button > > background from the picture. My background normal, hover, and selected > > also attached. > > Nice :-) > > > A few comments/questions. The UI is currently written in HTML, but for > > the homescreen it actually works OK and doesn't seem too web-ish. Since > > "hover" isn't something that is common I made your highlighted image the > > one when the user touched the icon and I added a hover icon for mouse > > people. My button sizes are 134x134 and I'm using 48x48 icons. Your > > picture showed a variety of icon sizes depending on whether there was 1 > > line of text or 2 lines. Some Q's: > > Actually the icons are all the same sizes but some icons have a bit of > padding around them, others don't. In any case, we only want to use one > size of icon. > > > - How flexible do you think I need to make the icon and button > > sizes? Currently they are configurable, but getting the icon and text > > aligned for any random icon or button size is tricky. > > - Do we need icon-only mode? > > Good question....my guess is that we do not need icon only mode but maybe > someone else can correct me here. > > > - Do we need scrollbars? :) > > If there are too many icons to fit on the screen, yes :D > > > - Spacing is easily configurable and will layout correctly centered > > Excellent > > > - Doesn't have anything across the bottom like "favorites" > > If we were to put the apps which are favorites, or most oftenly used it > would not be necessary. This is also the case if we only include enough > icons to fit on one screen (and therefor no scrollbar) - naturally this is > limiting though and differs from device to device.
should read: If we were to put the apps which are favorites, or most oftenly used *at the top* it would not be necessary.... > > > - Doesn't support categories of any sort. > > With the limited number of apps installed (even with a scrollbar) I wonder > if this is necessary. > > > - I made the 3 button images configurable so they should be > > themable. These would have to be added to the theme I guess > > Yes, they probably should be added. In addition it would be necessary to > pick some of the colors from the template (the part which is used to define > the gtkrc colors) and add them to the css file. > > > - The button images I made with my super gimp skills are not > > transparent or clever so they look stinky when not on a black > > background. One thing I like is the WimerGrass.png (attached) button > > backgrounds which might work on any screen background. Can you send me > > 3 background images to use? > > Yepp,, I'll work on that later today. > > > - My gutsy/UME page uses a different font than my feisty Firefox > > rendering (see feisty_vs_ume.png). The feisty version is a bit bolder > > and looks more like your picture. I'll try to resolve this difference. > > Actually I think that the version in the ume window looks fine as-is. For > now we can leave it I guess. > > -- > Ken -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
