Kate Alhola's Maemo Presentation
 

Kate has posted a PDF of the her latest Maemo 5 Presentation on her company blog. Are there new RX-51/N900 tidbits hidden within? Perhaps. Will every strained minutia of this pdf be painstakingly scrutinised by a N900-starved community? Absolutely!

You can find the blog by clicking here.

You can find the presentation by clicking here.

Discuss!


YARR!
}:^)~

libCorrupt.so

Re: Kate Alhola's Maemo Presentation
 

I don't really see anything new for Maemo 5 (although it is a nice overview for people who haven't been following closely). Hardware wise, I guess it confirms that there's a stand (although we knew that from the code already).

So, no, not much new of interest.

Re: Kate Alhola's Maemo Presentation
 

There's one thing of interest, that's likely known by those following the progress of Maemo 5 closely: It's the aweful main menu. This seems to be a perfect replica of what is on the tablets currently and can be represented much better.

Canola-style menus

In their current form, the main application menu and sub-menus are small, difficult to navigate with the finger, and (IMO) ugly. They are much better suited for a mouse. Canola's settings menu on the other hand is perfect for a mobile device and offers the SAME functionality in a much sleeker and more usable way. The Canola-style menus are large, finger friendly, attractive, can comfortably hold MANY sub menus, and are extremely intuitive. Moreover, based on the compatibility of function, it shouldn't be too hard to mimic this behaviour with Hildon Menus.

While there has been progress on usability, it seems that much of the usability is still being designed by developers! I think this task would be better suited by people that specialize in UIs and artists.

Of course, I'm at this point appealing to the more design-centered individuals on the forum. What do you think? Think you have what it takes to improve the current UI? It may be a bit late, but perhaps if we outline and vote on some ideas, make a wiki-page, we may be able to influence the usability of the upcoming tablet!


YARR!
}:^)~

captn.corrupt.DBus

Re: Kate Alhola's Maemo Presentation
 

File chooser - you can see only three items at a time. Maybe the thumb usability of it is high, but it is not very usable...

Re: Kate Alhola's Maemo Presentation
 

The file chooser should occupy the full screen, IMHO.

Re: Kate Alhola's Maemo Presentation
 

page 27 - the tablet has a hardware menu button.

could this be a d-pad?

Re: Kate Alhola's Maemo Presentation
 

Look at your tablet. Do you see the difference between the menu button and the d-pad? =)

Re: Kate Alhola's Maemo Presentation
 

i was happy to read in plain english about the menu button. i was worried they'd drop this usefull feature in the current thumb frenzy.

Re: Kate Alhola's Maemo Presentation
 

how do you purchase the maemo 5?

Re: Kate Alhola's Maemo Presentation
 

Its mostly free :D