On Monday 21 September 2009, William Kenworthy wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 14:50 +0100, Petr Vanek wrote: > > I am quite happy to have a slide unlocking screen rather then a full > > phone suite in SHRToday app, so i would vote against > > slide_to_receive_call feature. but i can imagine someone could provide > > a patch for another configurable slider to pickup without unlocking :) > > or slide to unlock and pickup... > > > > Petr > > > > > > > > LB> With another slider. > > LB> > > > LB> > How do you reject the call then? Or mute it? > > jeez ... I hate those friggin sliders - whats wrong with two buttons - > yes/no, on/off, answer/ignore, lock/unlock. Simple, works, looks good, > intuitive, hard to get wrong, ...
The reasoning's the same as before, avoiding accidental operation. The purpose of the screenlock is to stop unintended things happening because of random stuff touching the screen while the phone's in your bag, pocket or wherever. Stick buttons on it and you may as well not have the screenlock at all. > Sliders are good at analog values, two states should be buttons ... > sliders are slow (waste cpu cycles), ambiguous, dont always work (though > someone mentioned thats the toolkits fault, and are just plain > unintuitive :( If you dislike the sliders so much then change your theme. The slider is just a theme representation of a toggle control. You could use a theme that displays checkboxes, LEDs, chrome toggle switches, morse code or a subtle variation in the dance of a bee if you wanted. The non-operation issue is not because it's a slider, but because the app is failing to change the state. It would be just as much of an issue with a checkbox, except that because the checkbox is familiar you would realise the problem's with the app not the widget. Intuitive depends on what you're used to. I'm used to slide switches on physical items, so finding them in a GUI is no problem. The one for wifi power on my netbook is even sprung so it behaves like the apparently non-responsive one in shr settings ;-) People keep telling me MacOS is intuitive, but I usually find it frustrating. _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
