I tend to be of the mentality that the phone is for my convenience, not
others. Therefore, I like the ideas being suggested that incoming
calls/text messages/emails/etc are indicated by a simple, polite icon on a
status bar somewhere flashing for my attention.
If the application I'm running is screen or input-centric, the icon works
great, because I'm looking at the screen. Also, in these applications, the
current ringer setting would also apply as a way to alert me to the call.
If the application is sound-based, like playing an audio file, I would think
the a nice pleasant and quick tone, like caller-ID uses, would suffice to
alert me. If I take no action, perhaps I don't have the head phones on
right now, and the phone should use the ringer/vibrator after a couple
rings.
I really think in most circumstances, the ringer/vibrator on the phone is
enough to get one's attention, and all that is needed is a consistent place
to click to accept or reject the call.
(hmm, the Neo does have vibrate, right?)
--Steve
On 1/31/07, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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]>
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