On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 10:53 -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Thomas Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The icons in the bar at the top of the screen should not be interactive, > > as they are too small to use with a finger. This means all the top icons > > should not respond to clicks and it should be used for displaying status > > only. > > This is contrary to expectations, based on having used other phones. > > IMO if you click in that area, it should open a quickie little control > panel from which you can change all the most important settings (power > on/off the GSM/GPS/Bluetooth, make BT discoverable, set the ring > "profile", maybe others but I think those are the important ones) > That way you don't have to click on a specific status icon: touching > anywhere in the right 1/3 or so of the status bar would bring up the > same panel.
My main point here was that the status icons are unusable in any useful way without a stylus. Allowing that area to bring up a "control panel" type screen seems like a good idea. > > > They keyboard should only pop-up when a user explicitly requests it. > > Usually this is most conveniently done by popping up the keyboard when a > > user taps inside an entry field. Eventually it would also be nice to be > > able to switch between different types of keyboard, but the multi-tap > > should be enough for now. > > Since entry methods have generated so much discussion, I think the > switching between different types is actually important, and the > affordance to do so needs to be designed in already, even if > implementing them will come later. Absolutely agree. If a stylus is available, then full keyboard or handwriting input method should be available. The technical problem is switching between the multi-tap and traditional input methods, which we currently don't have a solution for. Theoretically there are easy ways to implement this, but I don't think any one has time to do so in the next few months. > > Your other suggestions sound like good ones. > Great! Any more comments about issues I've missed or looked over would be appreciated too. Regards, Thomas -- OpenedHand Ltd. Unit R Homesdale Business Center / 216-218 Homesdale Road / Bromley / BR1 2QZ / UK Tel: +44 (0)20 8819 6559 Expert Open Source For Consumer Devices - http://o-hand.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------
