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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
I think OS2008 is a significant improvement over 2007... which was an improvement over 2006... which was an improvement over 2005. More to come.

And it's funny how half the users scream for more finger-friendliness while the other half protests against it. Damn... if only all people could be pleased, all the time (cue famous Louis Armstrong song).

I like finger friendliness... but I would PREFER a rollback to CONTEXT friendliness...
Well, I'm fine with both finger friendly and stylus friendly. And honestly it's easy to program both into a UI. I've already done it in small scale on some other projects. I realize why some want finger friendly, as it saves them the time of working with the stylus, while others want screen realestate and don't mind the stylus.

The way we solved that was to have what was called the "fat menus" and the "thin menus". Fat menus were for people who wanted a finger friendly interface. It had larger icons, larger text, and operated differently on the screen. The thin menus used midget icons, small text, and was very stylus friendly. And it was easy to program in on a system wide, and application wide basis, and adjustable from the control panel.

The only question after that is if Nokia is willing to do it.