Don't worry I always assume if you took your time at least you have sympathy for the software or at least the hard work on it

#Unh, sorry I didn understand it correctly, What do you call the startup screen? the one with loading message? Or the one with the 4 icons :
Even not having sure : In the next releases you will see things growing (at least 2 more icons on home) and the home will get pretty crowded we think about the future a little bit before, because if we just use white space, it can be trick to expand things needed in the future.


#well this is a little bit trick, because we have a small rule of the following: if it going to make an action that changes something, that maybe you could possiblily not have the intention to do we do 2-state to avoid problems. On themes, it could be done, but We always take care of how many people complain(thats why I thank you for this feedback) to be able to understand how much something is pissing a lot of users. Most of the time we need to be a little "solid" when it a personal "felling".


- Why not use the entire height of the sides of screen to rotate through the main sections? It would be a Fitt's law type improvement because you have to be less precise when tapping

#you right about this one, it can be done. With of course safety marging for the upper button.

#the problem is not the media, but the no items found We do have several ideas to help users add content, but if you cannot do it inside canola, we prefer to do not interfere so much. This would need us to do a website with several links to Internet radios etc. I think this can be done, but it would be really low priority now.


#it not by design, we are improving error messages as we go. Apart from this one theres one "crash" known that is when you have HUGE pictures. But sometimes, canola is killed by the platform before we receive the information that theres no memory left We want and will do the possible to improve all of this. (I faced this on my table) needed to resort to xterm to see what was the problem. this was not good at all from the users pespective.

#yeah, like the previous answer there a lot to be improved in confirmations, consistency in some buttons, error messages, little things that I can assure you: they bother me more than anyone else It again just matter of time x priority People demand so much you know

#I have talked about it couple of times. the "real" thing is not implemented. Take a look in my blog, "crazy days" post There a explanation of Canola ui there.

#not at all : that button is actually a shortcut for "now playing" screen from ANY screen on the system. This allows you to return with one touch. Otherwise you would need to go at least to home menu, audio my music to jump to the playing file.

again : the feature is not working, thus it does look really "strange"


Actually is not that you need to hold. It does scrolls immediately, but to avoid items "dancing" (but even with that they still because fingers touches generates a lot of noise) we placed a limit of 5 pixels up and down. If you cross this, the list compensates (I don like this.. I think it should scroll without ) and do the scrolling. Test with the stylus. This is "crucial" to improve the ability of touching and holding, and more. Also it will be used on next release main feature: playlist on the move


#we did so much experiments about this and they actually have a larger area than they look. The problem is improved with the "border" of the screen, too high on n800, better on n810. Anyhow it complicated to have bigger higher buttons on a widescreen oriented UI, because you loose the most important thing: the content itself. So we said : Content is more important. Options you use couple of times, Back you use more, but theres the hardware fall back, there also the opportunity to adapt a little bit to it, (letting the finger half on the physical border half on the screen).

Thanks for the really detailed feedback. You gave us some nice insights.