On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:42:16 +1100 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> (CH(R) wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:27:03 +0200 "Michael 'Mickey' Lauer" ><mic...@vanille-media.de> said: > >> >The problem is : on the freerunner we merely need something to >> >display some simple widgets, scroll the screen smoothly (because on >> >a small display you always need to scroll) >> >> Why do all of you insist on using scrolling as the only metaphor to >> present excerpts of large content? Given the physical size of the >> display and the hardware constraints (touchscreen jitter, for a >> start... not going to comment on the Glamo) I think this is very >> questionable. There are other metaphors available that would fit the >> device's strengths much better. What about paging? > >good words mickey. good words. :) (i have a todo item for the scrole >rto have a page mode. it already has a page mode actually - but its a >scrolling one much like iphone's N pages of icons - but it's infra to >simple provide some theme elements that you press and they jump >up/down/left/right a page and then do the jump - so it's mostly there. >it just hasn't been any priority for me - am working on an oldie >request to get rotatable objects.. which now works. under flux.. but >works and renders... image and text objects so far are working. in >theory all other basic object types too, but smart objects - not yet). While i agree i still wonder. i tried latest android on freerunner yesterday - most scrolling nice and smooth. had qtmoko on last week - the same (yes, i read the explanation why it works, but it works). now, in order not to put anybody down, i must say that for example scrolling in shr contact list IS smooth. so my question is: where exactly do we have scrolling issues? think about it. Then i tend to think about the Illume desktop, that is so much unfriendly to scrolling. Raster, i meant to ask before but had no time: if we take etk toolkit and E window manager as for granted for SHR (hopefully with some choices, but still), is there any other desktop module we could use instead of Illume? In your no-speak project, is there anything being developed? What do you use on small device? Illume was ditched long time ago, is there not a replacement with attention? Anything you could recommend? Thank you Petr _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
