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Texrat 2008-01-19 01:29
Re: Custom GUI / Shell Replacement for ITTs?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Benson (Post 130236)
Texrat, one of the greatest strengths of the ITs is that "traditional PC UI" apps can be ported (after a fashion) with very little effort. A radically different UI could seriously reduce the number of apps ported by the community. So unless Nokia can bring some serious development effort to bear on this, they'd be crippling the ITs to do this with no compatibility.[/SIZE]
The UI *should* be independent of the app functionality. Apps should not care how they appear.

Karel Jansens 2008-01-19 01:58
Re: Custom GUI / Shell Replacement for ITTs?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 130322)
The UI *should* be independent of the app functionality. Apps should not care how they appear.
Again, and ad nauseam, this is what the Newton does right.

wazd 2008-01-19 12:10
Re: Custom GUI / Shell Replacement for ITTs?
 
To my mind apps must follow the OS UI steam. Must. There MUST be guidelines for icons, menus and navigation concepts.

iamthewalrus 2008-01-19 12:26
Re: Custom GUI / Shell Replacement for ITTs?
 
I like the idea behind Android where applications are split up into reusable components like 'show map' or a 'list contacts' so you can do mash-ups of them, instead of first opening your 'contacts' app and then open a different 'map' app.

iontruo2 2008-01-19 12:33
Re: Custom GUI / Shell Replacement for ITTs?
 
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Originally Posted by Cyker (Post 130251)
I think the PalmOS UI is a good place to start :D
Having just read Texrat's comment I agree. The older Palm OS apps had an intelligent simplicity to their layouts that worked well for finger use and easy eye format yet still had all options available in menu(or command line) beyond the front form factor.

linux_author 2008-01-19 12:34
Re: Custom GUI / Shell Replacement for ITTs?
 
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Originally Posted by wazd (Post 130469)
To my mind apps must follow the OS UI steam. Must. There MUST be guidelines for icons, menus and navigation concepts.
+1

that would make sense... but getting IT FOSS developers to agree on such a style guide might be like trying to herd cats?

:-)

wazd 2008-01-19 12:41
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Right now im writing down my thoughts about Maemo UI improvements and I think, I'll group them in in one blog, tagged, kindly illustrated and guided. Anyone wants to participate?)
Once again, I'm talking about improvements of CURRENT UI, and not about making it looks like %iphone/palmos/psion/freebsd/citizen calculator%.

tso 2008-01-19 12:46
Re: Custom GUI / Shell Replacement for ITTs?
 
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Originally Posted by iamthewalrus (Post 130473)
I like the idea behind Android where applications are split up into reusable components like 'show map' or a 'list contacts' so you can do mash-ups of them, instead of first opening your 'contacts' app and then open a different 'map' app.
now that really makes me think of the newton as i have heard it described...

wazd 2008-01-19 12:48
Re: Custom GUI / Shell Replacement for ITTs?
 
Aw, I forgot.
And to proove concept thoughts we (me and my great friend-programmer Krum) will show a port of a desktop software called «metromap». And step by step will describe, how it's UI was evolving from desktop oriented to thumbs-friendly mobile UI.

iamthewalrus 2008-01-19 14:15
Re: Custom GUI / Shell Replacement for ITTs?
 
All the nokia phone 'concept' videos on youtube seem very finger oriented so my guess is that something like that is already under development. This video is a year old already. Another very iphone-like one.


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