On Mon, Jun 18, 2007, Urho Konttori wrote: > This problem may already have been discussed, but in case it's not, > here's my contribution: > > When I use a thumb to click on the left side application menu in home > view or > application view, what I get is a list of 6 icons. 4 top ones are the > media > player, rss feed reader, images and file manager. If I want to , > say , open > calculater, I have to scroll down the list (which is painfully slow) > and then > eventually encounter the utilities and from there the calculator. > But, let's > say I wanted some app from extras. Even longer scrolling and then > list of > extras apps. Again 6 apps. Say I wanted the 8th app. Again, scrolling. > > Solution: > When I click on the application menu, take immediately more width for > the menu > and assemble the icons in two columns. Thus, user will see 12 icons > immediately. No need to scroll, as the 1st level menu is less than > 12. Ok, > click on one of the folders if further need. > Again, open in two column mode and show all apps at the same time. If > user > wants to navigate to first level, he/she only has to press the > application menu > item again. > > This would improve the thumb usability tremendously on N800. > > Bug id: > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556
The two-columns menu is already available in Sardine, if you wanna take a look. It's pretty much as you describe here. -- Johan Bilien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
