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#131
Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
I like the new OS, but it obviously needs polish. Well-written submissions to bugzilla and votes on existing bugs will help much in that regard.
+1

- definitely agree... overall, a nice upgrade, but to me the default menu size is clumsy and takes too much screen real estate...

- one annoyance, and an obvious error by a Nokia software engineer, is the assumption that keyboard shortcuts will only be assigned on an n810, and not taking into account the use of a BT keyboard...

- for example, under os2007 on the n800, the default US105 keyboard has the FKeys with standard functions (menu, app menu, home, fullscreen toggle, +, -, etc.) assigned to F3 through F12...

- but the default under os2008 on the n800 uses convoluted keyboard combos to achieve the same results, and in fact, the Shortcut tab function under the Bluetooth keyboard Control Panel reports:

"Illegal key for shortcut"

when attempting to map a function to an FKey!!!

@#$@#%???!!!

- this is *very* annoying and short sighted... there's no obvious reason for this behavior when before, these FKeys were the default, and also easily toggled menuing...

- in fact, this 'toggling' feature is also 'broken' or un-implemented for the app-launcher menu (one now has to cursor-left to remove a menu request)...

- don't get me wrong: i like os2008 and understand that it's time to move on... i really like my n800s (i have two: one for os2007 and one for upgrades such as this, hopefully short, interim version of os2008)...

- so one thumb up (and kudos for all the hard work from all contributing programmers), but one thumb down on some interface issues and software engineering...

:-)