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Benson
2007-12-11 , 14:32
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Originally Posted by
Moonshine
Now I find myself shifting out of full screen just to get at that toolbar and then switching back.
Guess that doesn't look like a problem from here.
I set up several apps (evince, opera, and I think a couple others) to have the toolbar on in "windowed" mode and off in full-screen. This lets me use the full-screen button to get to additional options, and I like it that way. Tap full-screen, enter URL, tap full-screen again. Likewise in evince, tap full-screen, enter page number or use TOC to get to a page, tap full-screen again. I find I use applications in full-screen mode more often than not, and it doesn't bother me much.
One thing that would be nice is if programs could be set to automatically come up full-screen whenever switched to. That would help when I: tap full-screen, start other application from menu, tap full-screen to full-screen intervening program, then come back to original program, which has been left in non-full-screen.
Maybe, since applications can't overlap even in non-full-screen, non-full-screen mode should be eliminated, the full-screen button should become the "invade screen from all sides with helpful toolbars and menus" button, and the task switcher (tap home key) should have the "Home" entry partioned into two half-width buttons: the Home button, and a laucher-menu button.
Hey Technut! Thanks, I had no clue about the tap-hold for history; but I thought at first you meant the Esc hardware key. I tried that, and indeed it performs as in other apps, an app close. Then I realized what you meant. Don't suppose you could have said "the back-arrow
in the toolbar
" for me mit mein muddy-minded morning *****icity?
Noventa, I find that, thanks to the bezel, I am quite able to control the scrollbar with a thumb. I hold my left thumb against the bezel so that the tip touches the screen. It touches right over top of the scrollbar, so I can just slide up and down the bezel.
Some people have commented on the experience vs. web-browsing on the iPhone
<spit>
, and suggesting Nokia should ditch stylus support. The great thing about the ITs that the Empire of Slightly Used Fruit doesn't have is a full mouse-compatible UI, making ports of 3rd party software much simpler. While the absence of total finger-centricity does have a (small IMHO) negative impact on browsing "experience", I'm quite happy to trade that off. I find it is still
very
usable for web browsing, and it gains so much utility elsewhere. I still hope for browsing improvements, but never at the cost of stylus support.
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