On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 05:08 +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote: > > > Toggle-like radio buttons are quite common too in many user > > > interfaces. > > Not that I can think of. > > Well, I haven't made a list :) but out of the blue I can think at > least of the GIMP, Audacity, OpenOffice/MS Word/Abiword/Gnumeric, > the iPhone...
Where I can find examples of these, it seems to be where space constraints make a real radio button difficult to use. Such as the alignment buttons in the OpenOffice toolbar. But Maemo Fremantle suggests their use _always_, for some other unexplained reason. This suggests that it's just about the cosmetic appearance, suggesting that it's an issue for the theme. Otherwise it's just another tedious #ifdef to add to code when porting to Maemo. > and I'd swear I saw them in the Moblin 2 UI too. But I > wasn't only thinking about computer interfaces, they're used in some > home appliances too. Home appliances generally have awful UI and have very little UI consistency. You'll find plenty of prior art for design mistakes in the home. That lack of consistency means that there can be no meaningful convention to differentiate between toggle buttons and radio buttons there anyway. However, I'm was asking about the API and implementation, because the Fremantle UI guidelines are really out of our control at this point. -- murr...@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
