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Subject: Re: Feature Suggestion - msg#00668List: handhelds.maemo.userI still think having some guidelines - perhaps not mandatory - would be well advised. I believe Apple has UI guidelines which are usually well respected and enable a certain familiarity to users as you open something for the first time. On 1/29/07, Mike Lococo <mpl22@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Jonathan, > It seems there is no standard for how developers design home screen > applets. I'd like to see there be a mandatory resize function so you > could make sure that things could be smaller or larger as needed. Two > examples are the GPE-Calendar and Canola applets which I'd make > smaller. In the open source world, it's fairly difficult to enforce mandatory standards. Your best bet is to submit an enhancement bug to each of the projects you'd like to see improved. GPE has their issue tracker at this address: http://bugzilla.handhelds.org/ I'm not sure about Canola, their issue tracker may be at garage.maemo.org, or it may be somewhere else, or it may just be the author's email address. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users -- Jonathan Greene m 917.560.3000 AIM / iChat - atmasphere gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene@xxxxxxxxx Gizmo - JonathanGreene blog - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp Thread at a glance:
Previous Message by Date: click to view message previewRe: Feature SuggestionJonathan, It seems there is no standard for how developers design home screen applets. I'd like to see there be a mandatory resize function so you could make sure that things could be smaller or larger as needed. Two examples are the GPE-Calendar and Canola applets which I'd make smaller. In the open source world, it's fairly difficult to enforce mandatory standards. Your best bet is to submit an enhancement bug to each of the projects you'd like to see improved. GPE has their issue tracker at this address: http://bugzilla.handhelds.org/ I'm not sure about Canola, their issue tracker may be at garage.maemo.org, or it may be somewhere else, or it may just be the author's email address. Thanks, Mike Next Message by Date: click to view message previewFree Wifi?Not sure this is WW, but TMO is giving away 3 months of wifi for Vista systems in the US... Engadget offered a tip on how to do this with any system which is a pretty simple hack. I'd imagine a quick trip to the Opera config and we could also enjoy the same from our Tablets... http://tinyurl.com/2ej7oe -- Jonathan Greene m 917.560.3000 AIM / iChat - atmasphere gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene@xxxxxxxxx Gizmo - JonathanGreene blog - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp Previous Message by Thread: click to view message previewRe: Feature SuggestionJonathan, It seems there is no standard for how developers design home screen applets. I'd like to see there be a mandatory resize function so you could make sure that things could be smaller or larger as needed. Two examples are the GPE-Calendar and Canola applets which I'd make smaller. In the open source world, it's fairly difficult to enforce mandatory standards. Your best bet is to submit an enhancement bug to each of the projects you'd like to see improved. GPE has their issue tracker at this address: http://bugzilla.handhelds.org/ I'm not sure about Canola, their issue tracker may be at garage.maemo.org, or it may be somewhere else, or it may just be the author's email address. Thanks, Mike Next Message by Thread: click to view message previewRE: Feature Suggestion> Thanks for the tip - I'll file with each as appropriate. > > I still think having some guidelines - perhaps not mandatory - would > be well advised. I believe Apple has UI guidelines which are usually > well respected and enable a certain familiarity to users as you open > something for the first time. > Agreed. UI guidelines are desirable and practical. We have a clear gap in this area. Loading Comments...
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