Salve Bryan,Mickey,*! IMHO an important usergroup for OpenMoko/Neo1973 (in the beginning) will be *nix administrators, developers and maintainers. A comfortable ssh client will makes their smartphone to a mobile terminal - that the device is trustworthy is very important...
They are used to use Linux without GUI or with spartanic GUI and they are used that the tools behave very predictable - a vim window will not be suddendy overlapped by a popup window. Mickey wrote "it is still just a phone" - well, for me is the mobil shell, mobil (emebedded) linux computing more important than that the Neo1973 is a phone. I like it, that i can phone with it and I also like to contribute ideas/solution to make phoning more confortable: that not everybody is bothering me in just the moment when *he* wants to talk with me, while I'm - eating - learning - paying in a shop - changing the train - I'm writing an SMS/Email And I'm not thinking to swith off the phone or just rejecting the incomming calls as alternative - I serveral cases just 2-10 seconds would be perfect to finish something that I'm would doing with my Neo as PDA or mobil computer/shell I just want the comfort when I have PDA and GSM phone as two seperate devices. And I do not care about the need to have one step more to answer a call, when I would work with a PDA I would have also 2 steps 1. get the phone into my hand 2. answer the call With OpenMoko 1. swith to telephone mode/screen (with a keystroke for the austere/Spartan lovers, one icon as compromise (LED for the future would be interesting :))) 2. answer the call While not using the Neo as PDA/mobil computer/mobil shell it will behave just like a Phone, one step to pick up the call. On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Bryan Fink wrote: > On 1/31/07, Andrew Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My preference would be some system whereby I could select a list of > >> events that are allowed to interrupt me, and to what level they're > >> allowed to interrupt - visual: fullscreen/halfscreen/footer/none; > >> audio: interrupt/mix over/none. > > > >This seems like too much work to setup profiles/configurations etc. > >Most users probably wouldn't bother. Very important to consider "The > >Power of Defaults" :) See Flickr and default "Public" on photos vs. > >private by all the other photo sites. > > > > A *very* good point. I fell into the typical developer trap of > casting myself as an average user there for a minute. Hell, now that > I think about it further, even I'd get tired of switching options and > settle on some, probably less than optimal, default. :P So when OpenMoko have 2-3 flavors like -OpenMoko Normal (with bothering instant popups like every other smartphone) -OpenMoko austere/Spartan/Guru/Admin/Expert/ It would be ease to develope with just 2-3 different flavors. Greetings, rob _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community