On 1/31/07, Bryan Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/31/07, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's distinguish two types of popup-dialogs: > > a) informative (i.e. battery low, incoming sms, sms sent) > b) confirmative ("Mickey calling. Answer / Ignore / Reject?", "Do you > want to remove all contacts?") > > Right now, we're leaning towards (ab)using the bottom status bar (in > openmoko-language called 'footer') for informative dialogs and using > half screen (480x320) popup dialogs for confirmative. > > What do you think?I think the first time it pops up while I'm doing something else ("Mickey calling. Answer/Ignore/Reject?" while I'm putting something on my calendar), and I accidentally click one of the buttons, I'm going to be very annoyed. I'd also be annoyed if I had to deal with the dialog before going back to whatever I was doing.
Right, I would agree that any alerts that will provide inputs for choosing an option such as "Answer/Ignore incoming call" be in an area that is not currently being used. I have this happen on my current mobile when using the 2 buttons for editing an entry and then the states of the buttons change to answer/decline. But the Neo can be smarter :) So the 'footer' can be a restricted 100px (or something) high status bar that apps wouldn't display in. Then if a call comes in, a pulsating red phone icon or exclamation point shows up. You can then click it to have the half-screen footer slide up.
My preference would be some system whereby I could select a list of events that are allowed to interrupt me, and to what level they're allowed to interrupt - visual: fullscreen/halfscreen/footer/none; audio: interrupt/mix over/none.
This seems like too much work to setup profiles/configurations etc. Most users probably wouldn't bother. Very important to consider "The Power of Defaults" :) See Flickr and default "Public" on photos vs. private by all the other photo sites. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
