Heya, > I think many users could live with popups, > but I would like to choose a solution that > would not nag me with full or havesize popups
Do you have a viable alternative (except full undo/redo capabilities, which would be desirable, but takes a whole lot of memory and/or disk)? >> 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?") > b) I hope incomming call will not interupt me to do what I'm doing > now D'oh. That surprises me a bit... after all, the Neo is a phone, so I would think incoming phone calls should always popup [in default profile]. What do the others think? >> 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. > - I guess a third 480x210 is to small? Probably, yes. > - could it be transparent? Not on v1 hardware. There is no way the composite render extension will work with an acceptable speed on a s3c2410. > - will it passiv so that I can go on typing my email/chat > and my external keyboard return will not activate the > default of the pop up? I don't think we want "Do you really want to delete all contacts" to be a non-disturbing passive dialog. >> What do you think? > I think for several application I would like to have > *no* popup just a screen inverting flashing like with GNU > screen and maybe a 1-3 pixel red or inverted frame around > the whole screen - mabey with fast inverting flashing > mayby with vibra or sound alarm... but a chance to > to continous with the full screen. Let's talk more concrete. Can we come up with some examples which are asynchronous notifications requiring a confirmation (otherwise they'd just appear and disappear on the statusbar)? Do you really want e.g. the "incoming phone" confirmation dialog behave like that? [more notification strategies] > When I work with my laptop and the phone rings, > I can finshed what I'm doing and pickup the phone > then - the same freedom would I like when computing > and phone will be together in a smartphone. > Could you understand my point? I understand your point, I just think that this kind of thinking is not what the majority of smartphone users wants.... or is it? Guys? > So in oposite to comercial products we have to chance > offer 2-4 different design solutions how to work with > the device. Absolutely -- that's freedom. Giving hard- and software to actually try new paradigmes in the real world might exactly be the revolution we're after :) -- - Michael Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://openmoko.org/ ============================================================================ Software for the worlds' first truly open Free Software mobile phone _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community