On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:49:17 +0000 Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <ad...@leinir.dk> wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 Dec 2010 20:41:51 Bernd Stramm wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:21:46 +0100 > > "Ville M. Vainio" <vivai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > .... > > > > > If someone is *still* confused, do let us know and we can make it > > > more explicit in the future. > > > > What seems very ironic about the situation is that there appears to > > be a new, strict separation between the UX layers for mobile and > > desktop. > > > > And this happens at a time when the capabilities of mobile and > > desktop hardware are converging to the point that its hard to see > > any difference. > > > > That seem like a very strange situation. > > It seems like a strange situation, until you realise that you need > this technological spanner to force people to realise that building a > user interface is vastly different when dealing with touch devices > and the more classic keyboard/mouse combo :) Because without the > spanner, it seems that people just don't understand that it is, in > fact, vastly different things :) > This is both true and false. Of course it is true that, given different capabilities and restrictions, you end up with different solutions. And providing the toolsets to make these solutions is what, for example, Qt-Nokia is working on now. I think though that it is false in the sense that the toolsets *have* to be different. And taking a longer look, I think the restriction to use only one or two fingers to operated a device will turn out to be temporary. People of limited dexterity use both hands and both feet to operate pathetically simple technological devices like bicycles, and acheive an information flow bandwith vastly superior to touch screens. So something better will come up in the near future, I think. -- Bernd Stramm bernd.str...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
