On 14 Aug 2007, at 00:48, Derek Pressnall wrote:
What I meant was that apps that would be "in use" would be split into a piece that runs in the background, and a forground part that talks to the display / input. And the background part would only be running when needed.
It's sorta done like that already, we have GUI applications and runtime libraries.
Now the phone app would always have a module running since it has to listen for incomming phone calls.
gsmd handles the calls, there's a library too.
The UI portion of the phone app that uses the "phone desktop" would be the default / primary app that is always available on it when nothing else is running
Sounds like you use the phone a lot? while that's right for you, other people use messaging or PDA functions more. You might find additional clicks to launch a dialer annoying, if you make dialer default someone else may think multiple clicks to browse their files annoying.
Lets not hardcode any form of functionality into the device, let people choose. Having a default desktop handler or a homescreen which can display plugins is the way to go about it.
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