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2011-08-21 , 14:07
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Originally Posted by MSameer View Post
The SVG seems fine but I'm not entirely sure.

Back to features:
Tafsir is treated exactly as translations. They are both the same from the app point of view. No separate buttons or menus or anything.

There are 2 Arabic tafseer texts available and both are found in the translations page and could be enabled.

The option to enable multiple texts will be there. The problem is how to cycle between text as only one will be shown in the UI (Space constrains).

I had the idea of adding a translations button to the toolbar and it could be used to cycle between enabled translations. The problem is I realized that swiping to reach the next and/or previous pages can be confused with up/down. Seems I need to bring back the old next/previous buttons... This consumes all the available space and kills the dedicated translations/recitations buttons.

I'm really stuck here. The only option is to move some options to the main menu or use your brilliant idea (Add such options to the long tap menu)

Let's brain storm themes:
1) We can ship multiple colors/themes.
2) Adding a new theme is just a matter of dropping a few icons and an ini file to a certain directory and then enable it from the settings page.

Is that OK ?
About the SVG i'll make some icons and post here (when completed) and you cn check them...

if you are implementing translations (meaning of a verse) and tafsir(detailed explaination with referance to historical events) together it doesnt require seperate buttons, but if the user only needs translation then the option to display only translation must be available in Settings (if and only if the tafsir is mixed with it.).

about the multiple tafsir text problem, there must be an option to select the desired tafsir text in the setting rather than cycling between them, (as this may cause confusions if pressed mistakenly).

now the next and previous problem, i think swiping to left side of the page should move sightly left and show a left icon(left arrow) to turn page left, and vice versa. this will save the space in the toolbar. (we can put a translation icon there if needed)

shipping multiple themes will be good and i agree, but adding few icons and an ini is not good for all of the public, because they cant make all the icons, nor the ini and pasting in right place is difficult. (for example: not quite possible on future phones n8,e7,c7,n9 etc (symbian/meego) )

what do you think?