Hi Thomas, thanks for your answer!
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 15:31 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote: > The problem with using the power button is that it is completely > unobvious to new users. That's true and it took me a while to figure it out but then who would know about multitouch on the iPhone if Apple wouldn't tell everybody? I agree that the hardware buttons on the Neo are badly usable. A future Neo version will most likely have better buttons. I wouldn't too much focus on this one example of hardware, as OpenMoko should run hopefully on many more devices and FIC produces more different phones. > > The toolbar button on the top give quick access to the most wanted > > functions: "send sms", "call", "add new contact" - I use them a lot and > > think they are very useful. > > I would suggest moving them to the details page. As long as the > switching between list and details is quick enough, I think this > wouldn't be a problem. Well, for me this is perfect as it is. > > > > * Switch to a contact details when list item is clicked > > > > When you use your fingers to select an entry you do not always select > > the right one on the first go, thus the split of actions "selecting" and > > "showing details" makes a lot of sense to me. I would leave it like it > > is. > > I think this is a good point. Perhaps the main problem I have is that > new users find it very difficult to locate the details button. The folder icon is not very intuitve. I would use the list icon from the first tab and for the first tab use the list icon without the hand and the orange border. I think not everything must be clear immediately to a new user as long as with a bit of clicking around it becomes quickly clear. > Perhaps > we need to make it more obvious. How about replacing the new button with > edit, and moving new into a menu? Presumable Edit will be used much more > often than New. For me the New button is more important than Edit. Especially when the phone is new. > > > > * Add groups button to toolbar in details page > > > > The groups tab is the only one I would move elsewhere into a better > > context (i.e. "Add new contact" and "Edit contact") > > I think that means you agree? Yes. > > > > * Remove communication history page(?) > > > > So far everyone told me that this is a cool feature missing on all other > > phones. I love it ;-) > > Interesting, I guess I rarely look at my call history anyway. You can't > do any thing with it, so I don't really see what it's usefulness is. In a business context it is often very powerful to be able to say "I called you on XXX at YYY and on XXX and YYY". Additionally I would like to be able to click on a call and add a note to it. > > > What I mostly miss: > > - a category "mobile" for the type of phone number > > Probably a one line patch. Thought so :) > > > - more contact details > > Such as? I didn't want to make it too complicated here. Phone, E-mail > and Address and Company seemed the most likely used fields to me. I very much agree with you. > > > - a remarks field > > Personally, I can't really see how this makes sense in a contacts > application. Keeping it simple as possible was my main goal. I would even just go with one text input field where I can put address, birthday, where I met somebody etc... If that field is named Address - so be it - I'll abuse it :) The version I use (nightly build ~2weeks old has neither address not company) > > > > Status bar > > > ---------- > I can't see the link between high resolution and stylus usability. It is not the stylus usability, but as of now I see few things that need the 480x640 resolution and with a stylus one simply has finer grained control for a finer grained screen. > I find the hardware buttons on the Neo fairly difficult to use because > of the placement on the case and also the quality of the micro switches. As I said I agree but hope for better buttons in the future. > I definitely don't want to see menubars! Also, I want a "application > menu" button to appear only if the application has a menu. The fact is, > some applications are bound to require menus to keep their main > interface clear, so we should provide a convenient place for the menu to > appear from, rather than having a menubar take up more space in the UI. I don't like this in maemo and believe if an app needs a menu it should handle this by itself. Anyway, you are the developer so it is just my input. So far I like OpenMoko a lot the PIM applications included. Thanks and regards Marcus
