On Jan 26, 2008 1:58 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > after all the qwerty keyboard layout was designed to slow typing so that
> > the mechanical typewriters could keep up. there are better layouts
On Jan 27, 2008 1:50 AM, Chas. Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2008 4:00 AM, Hilaire Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, the page-up (O) and page-down (X) buttons should move to the
> start of the next and previous pages not scroll a fixed amount.
I would be very appreciate t
My initial remark was about what I perceived as an usability problem
after experiencing the reading of PDF books (other problem are lack of
user feedback, do tooltips die in sugar?)).
As any usability problem it should be taken seriously, and if possible
final decision about the design (or redesign
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
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>> after all the qwerty keyboard layout was designed to slow typing so that
>> the mechanical typewriters could keep up. there are better layouts for
>> typing (even some standardized ones like doevak) but the OLPC ships w
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> after all the qwerty keyboard layout was designed to slow typing so that
> the mechanical typewriters could keep up. there are better layouts for
> typing (even some standardized ones like doevak) but the OLPC ships with
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:32:30 + (GMT)
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> > in general, the OLPC software is and should be different. Maybe not in this
> > case, if the solution is fine. If the current solution is not fine, the XO
> > software should be better and due to that different.
> > yokoy
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> the OLPC software should not be any different.
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> in general, the OLPC software is and should be different. Maybe not in this
> case, if the solution is fine. If the current s
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:11:31 + (GMT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> the OLPC software should not be any different.
in general, the OLPC software is and should be different. Maybe not in this
case, if the solution is fine. If the current solution is not fine, the XO
software should be better and
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Chas. Owens wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2008 1:16 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Yes, the page-up (O) and page-down (X) buttons should move to the
>>> start of the next and previous pages not scroll a fixed amount.
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>> Could you provide some justification for this a
On Jan 26, 2008 1:16 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yes, the page-up (O) and page-down (X) buttons should move to the
> > start of the next and previous pages not scroll a fixed amount.
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> Could you provide some justification for this approach? Paging
> exactly one screen height
Eben Eliason wrote:
>> Yes, the page-up (O) and page-down (X) buttons should move to the
>> start of the next and previous pages not scroll a fixed amount.
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> Could you provide some justification for this approach? Paging
> exactly one screen height seems most logical to me, as there's no
> Yes, the page-up (O) and page-down (X) buttons should move to the
> start of the next and previous pages not scroll a fixed amount.
Could you provide some justification for this approach? Paging
exactly one screen height seems most logical to me, as there's no
guarantee that a full page fits on
On a related topic, I'd like to mention how beautifully a docbook formatted
document looks (with a simple css) when read in browse. Given the
prevalence of this format, I think it would be beneficial to special-case a
mapping of the game keys to understand the links that are conventionally
present
On Jan 26, 2008 4:00 AM, Hilaire Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not sure it has been reported.
> I looks to me (from update.1) the PDF reader is not user friendly,
> especially when one want to read book in portrait format, full screen
> and navigate from page to page (pressing one button t
Not sure it has been reported.
I looks to me (from update.1) the PDF reader is not user friendly,
especially when one want to read book in portrait format, full screen
and navigate from page to page (pressing one button to move
next/previous page).
I found the operation to achieve to this not obvio
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