Re[2]: Video of production device?

2008-05-24 Thread t3st3r

-Original Message-
From: Vinc Duran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 18:51:00 -0600
Subject: Re: Video of production device?

  Is there video of the production FreeRunner in use? I found
  http://illume.projects.openmoko.org/illume-vv-01.avi posted by Kevin
  Dean on May 19th. Is that video of shipping software or just a concept
  video?
If someone cares I dislike such UI.Even on video playback it can be seen that 
sometimes some sliding effects are somewhat slow.And, what is slightly worse, 
UI has too few items per screen and over-uses this nasty sliding.So on this 
video I can see just a permanent nasty scrolling and sliding.IMHO such UI is 
neither well optimized for stilus- or finger-driven UI nor comfortable in sense 
that there should be as few levels of nested menus as possible.From video it 
looks like dealing with such menu system is a real PITA.Sliding is great effect 
and looks great and I like it.If it's not overused as here in this example.

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Re: Re[2]: Video of production device?

2008-05-24 Thread Kevin Dean
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 4:04 PM, t3st3r [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 -Original Message-
 From: Vinc Duran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: List for Openmoko community discussion community@lists.openmoko.org
 Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 18:51:00 -0600
 Subject: Re: Video of production device?

  Is there video of the production FreeRunner in use? I found
  http://illume.projects.openmoko.org/illume-vv-01.avi posted by Kevin
  Dean on May 19th. Is that video of shipping software or just a concept
  video?
 If someone cares I dislike such UI.Even on video playback it can be seen that 
 sometimes some sliding effects are somewhat slow.And, what is slightly worse, 
 UI has too few items per screen and over-uses this nasty sliding.So on this 
 video I can see just a permanent nasty scrolling and sliding.IMHO such UI is 
 neither well optimized for stilus- or finger-driven UI nor comfortable in 
 sense that there should be as few levels of nested menus as possible.

It's actually well optimized for the stylus and finger. Openmoko's
2007.2 stack is HORRIBLE for finger based usage, and while Qtopia is a
bit better, it's still pretty bad. The ASU makes selection (via
sliding) easy. Text is also pretty big and easy to select.

From video it looks like dealing with such menu system is a real PITA.

Much easier than hitting a tiny square with my finger.

Sliding is great effect and looks great and I like it.If it's not overused as 
here in this example.

You can still use the icon based app selection screen (ala Qtopia or
iPhone) and is infact the default. Illume is shown off because it's
actually creative.


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