Apple's multitouch system, on the software end, is based on heavy use
of gestures. Gestures are stupid and limiting, so don't do them.
Instead, build on simple logical rules that expand organically to
multiple fingers. For example, a basic physics simulation can be used
for dragging objects; one fi
Something that could be interesting to ponder, with regards to the
combo layout, is Sony's keypad add-on. It is designed so that one can
run his finger over the keys and use it as a track pad, presumably via
some kind of touch sensitive surface. It's a very cool idea and could
be a useful control m
xcept for batteries, which is an interesting problem).
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 10/6/07, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On 6 Oct 2007, at 19:39, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The neo will not penetrate the consumer market without a
have a comitment to it as the powerful selling point it should
be.
Besides, Nokia's phones are a lot more open than various other leading
smartphones -- let's hope they blast the closed ones out of the marketplace.
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 10/1/07, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
seeing you pull apart 2007.2!
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 9/23/07, Dani Anon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I was thinking on getting an openmoko when it's done and probably
> developing a couple of apps but before that I think there is a big
> problem with the current gr
also agree with swapping Speaker Phone and Hang Up. A good interface needs
a consistent rule for which side the positive and negative responses are on,
and this must never change. (For example, Gnome's HIG).
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 9/12/07, Joshua Layne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
surprisingly clean thing to achieve, code wise.
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 9/8/07, OJW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Just playing with another idea for text-entry:
>
> http://almien.co.uk/Keypad/
>
> The idea is to be able to type mixed letters / numbers / symbols /
> control-ch
is
enough for the illusion of added pressure. (After all, hands are very
sensitive)...
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 9/11/07, Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Some "screen protectors" could be made to have relief boundaries
> between all the buttons... so you just stick you keyboar
ions.
Systems that focus on one's location in the real world are a fresh and
exciting direction to go, and really inspire the excitement of exploration
brought on by free software.
Bye,
Dylan McCall
PS: Sorry about the dreamy, future feature thoughts-oriented message. Hehe,
I got a bit carried
Openmoko.org's front page could show more than one smartphone running the
system, or screenshots of it without any hardware visible. That may
magically get the point across...
-Dylan McCall
On 8/24/07, Daniel Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> I often
Sorry, I feel I should elaborate, since the background already is usually
light in the main content. There is already a lot of red, and blue just
looks less important than red, so the colour we could use to indicate things
of particular importance is already in use.
On 8/22/07, Dylan McCall
der a bit problematic with the black and orange is
that it is difficult (nay, impossible!) to get a more extreme colour for
particularly important buttons and messages. For example, with a lighter
background, Red would be a lot prominent.
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 8/22/07, Amy Stephen <[EMAIL P
for some reason I am finally able to relax
under an acceptance that other people are Really Good at this stuff, and I
can now resume work on my own niche without a worry about how the rest of it
fits together.
The air feels lighter.
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 8/20/07, Sean Moss-Pultz <[EMAIL PROTEC
he path for "I". Point 0,3 leads to a lot of letters; "I", "L",
"J", "U", etc. (Sorry, I seem to have changed the story from that first
example :p As I said, we would need someone clever to sit down and figure
out the connections).
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
You could try slapping something together yourself, using Glade. It's nice
and easy to use, and it uses GTK, so it behaves there just like it would on
the real thing.
Good luck! I look forward to seeing what you have in mind..
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
PS: Sorry I sent this to you already, G
With news readers in mind, I have one wish for the forums: Really good
syndication, either with RSS or Atom feeds.
On 7/21/07, Adam Krikstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Werner hinted at an official forums.openmoko.org. If people would just
want something temporary, I could probably get an FIC
I agree, a forum is a good idea! More organized and easier searched (without
putting that job entirely on the user's end) than a mailing list.
I prefer PHPbb, definitely. Invision is more fancy, but I am always seeing
those things screw up.
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 7/21/07, Valerio Bruno &l
own "normal" hardware be interacted with in the same way as
its regular hardware? For example, would a mystical bluetooth camera
peripheral be able to talk to the device and be just as useful as its built
in camera, with regards to software?
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 7/17/07, Torfinn Ingo
e with the regular x server
along with a stronger effort by folks to prepare for the future. (Hopefully
software will soon stop assuming particular input methods... and I want
multiple drag and drop operations!)
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 7/15/07, Bryce Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, but
wheel on the
left side of the interface!
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 7/15/07, Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well I don't know what so cool about multi-touch screen on a phone
unless
> for scaling images and webpages. So maybe just implementing a gesture to
do
> that functi
l identifier for security.
-Dylan McCall
On 7/3/07, Ryan Prior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That's not as far as it goes, either -- if the software required to set up
and maintain a geolocation database is free and open source, then anybody
who does not trust the central provider can set up
or the user to provide his own
information for that location database as it is for the system to download
existing databases from the web.
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 7/2/07, Don Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/2/07, Stuart Gray wrote:
> http://www.wefi.com/ seems to be along that lines, th
ze of the device relative to the
screen, make a big enough difference that this smaller screen still feels
pretty big? (Or, even better, is the 2.8 inches I am reading an incorrect
measurement?)
Bye,
Dylan McCall
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current location" button that would tell the device that
said coordinates are said address. (And then the addresses could have tags,
such as Theatre, that the device could act on automatically).
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 7/1/07, Raphaël Jacquot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nick Johnson wrot
endeavour for any time soon.
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 7/1/07, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
well, i'm definitely interested in someone doing something like this -
and my background is in CAD/engineering/materials with a bit of CAM,
so i might as well start things off.
i ca
n a key is pressed, the key could
expand with each letter becoming separate. When the user is making his
stroke, the key that would be selected if he was to let go could be
illuminated somehow.
-Dylan McCall
On 6/27/07, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
someone on this list had a
A problem with the buttons layer is that now we have something very oriented
towards one specific situation, so it seems less friendly for random
development of stuff, such as full-screen games without actual buttons.
Of course this cover would probably be removable, but if it were to happen
it w
much. Okay,
I'll admit that my opinion would immediately change with the inclusion of
multitouch, but for now there is a way to cope with not having it :)
Thanks for the update!
Bye,
-Dylan McCall
On 6/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi list,
I got some news to
e they are so small)... what would be
/extremely/ cool is tapping the touch screen to turn the device on, removing
that pesky power button. I wonder how / if that could ever be possible?
(Of course the touch screen isn't your usual button, so probably can't do it
at all easily).
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