2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Robert Michel
Salve Mickey! I think many users could live with popups, but I would like to choose a solution that would not nag me with full or havesize popups I mean on the longterm, but as official design of Openmoko, working with every aplication. On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:

Re: 2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Heya, I think many users could live with popups, but I would like to choose a solution that would not nag me with full or havesize popups Do you have a viable alternative (except full undo/redo capabilities, which would be desirable, but takes a whole lot of memory and/or disk)? Let's

Re: 2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread David Ford
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: [..] D'oh. That surprises me a bit... after all, the Neo is a phone, so I would think incoming phone calls should always popup [in default profile]. What do the others think? It shouldn't :) Do you answer all calls to your phone? My phone is often very busy

Re: 2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Steven Milburn
I tend to be of the mentality that the phone is for my convenience, not others. Therefore, I like the ideas being suggested that incoming calls/text messages/emails/etc are indicated by a simple, polite icon on a status bar somewhere flashing for my attention. If the application I'm running is

Re: 2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Steven Milburn wrote: I tend to be of the mentality that the phone is for my convenience, not others.  Therefore, I like the ideas being suggested that incoming calls/text messages/emails/etc are indicated by a simple, polite icon on a status bar somewhere flashing for my attention.  If

Re: 2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any, alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Jonathon Suggs
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Do you really want e.g. the incoming phone confirmation dialog behave like that? [more notification strategies] ... I understand your point, I just think that this kind of thinking is not what the majority of smartphone users wants or is it? Guys? I

Re: 2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
David Ford writes: Here's a grand example. You're inside your voicemail navigating menus and dealing with temporary information. Your phone rings in with a new call and your fingers are busy hitting voicemail commands. *bam* Your inbound phone call is accidently disconnected or answered not

Re: 2-3 parallel solution to choose by the user? Re: Any, alternative ideas to fullscreen popup-messages?

2007-01-31 Thread Jon Phillips
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 16:55 -0600, Jonathon Suggs wrote: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Do you really want e.g. the incoming phone confirmation dialog behave like that? [more notification strategies] ... I understand your point, I just think that this kind of thinking is not what