UI Size, opinions
 

Heads up, this isnt a complaint or a request, I just wanna know how TMO feels.

Anyone else think the UI is big? The top bar is around 56 pixels, which is over a tenth of the screen. I'd love if it was shrunk to maybe 38 or 44 pixels, same for MicroB's toolbar, it's huge. Buttons are also pretty big, no big dealio though, and I find myself always dropping the font size in theme customizer two or three points smaller that default.

That's just me of course but what do you all think?

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To each his own I guess. I use Theme Customizer to make my icons a little bigger and easier to hit with my fat fingers.

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YES, the UI is ridiculously big, and I would like to scale everything down to about half size - especially that ridiculous top bar and bottom bar that eats up space everywhere.

Re-themeing can help a *little* but not much :(

/Z

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Developers have to consider all use cases when designing a UI, so while a particular UI component may appear too large to users who have no issues with vision or dexterity, that may not apply to other users.

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Being able to change the size of the GUI is pretty much an essential feature, for each person and each use a different size is better.

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So Nokia should only cater to people who have issues using their device? I know where you're coming from, but just because some people have a hard time seeing, doesn't mean we should all waste a fifth of our screen on UI.

Agreed.

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Uh, no. Companies should cater to all of their customers, duh.

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i think its small enough.
anyone who used an old windows mobile-phone remembers how horrible it is to navigate through tiny tiny tiny menus with a stylus.
i guess maemo is rather fingerfriendly, and fingerfriendly means big.

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Regarding this, the physical geometric aspect of the N900 was already done correctly, you got a screen you can easilly thumb everywhere, but it also has a high resolution and for the smaller things programs might put on screen you got the stylus (not to mention that using resistive touch interface allows for an increase in precision and you can use pretty much any pointy thing with it)

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I just wish we had an option to drop everything about 10 pixels. I've used systems with smaller displays and lower/higher pixel densities, worked fine for me.

The reason Windows Mobile sucked at navigation was because it wasn't originally made to be used with a touchscreen.

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Agreed, the UI is too big for my liking, especially microb toolbar.

Surely this can be done by modifying the hildon-home source code?

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I agree with TiagoTiago, but, I do think the microb toolbar is a little big.

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ok, wm is on one end, but I would like to be able to choose. Even have modes. The N900 (as the N800 did) can distinguish between finger and stylus presses. So why not dual mode? Press a finger on the screen and UI becomes big and fat. Use the stylus and you are back to diablo looks, or even better, gnome.
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How can it detect the difference? The pressure sensitivity?

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Yes, I don't know technical details but the N800 showed a different on-screen keyboard upon stylus or finger press, and on MyPaint on N900, for some brushes the difference is more than obvious (when drawing with the finger the brush is wide while when drawing with the stylus the pressure varies the opacity, not the width)
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