Thread: Dr. Ari Jaaksi on Maemo 5
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2008-09-25 , 13:57
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#517
Originally Posted by qole View Post
Actually the UI is not half bad if you turn off most of the toolbars, put the remaining toolbars on the sides and go fullscreen. Some of us actually do use OOo on the tablet "for a long period of time;" perhaps we are already insane (by your definition), so that is why we are not driven there.

Evolution e-mail's UI, on the other hand, isn't very usable on the tablet. They don't let you change the layout enough.

I do need to say one thing; I know that desktop UI is not very nice on a handheld device. But, given the choice of a full-featured office suite with a desktop UI and a crappy little text editor with a nice mobile UI, I'll probably choose... both. Sometimes you need one, sometimes you need the other.

If it's not that bad, I may try it... Do the zoom keys work well? I tend to use them more than most other users I have discovered. What would be nice is to havesomething where we can map the toolbars to the switchview key and then scroll to an item using the d-pad. I liked that feature when it was featured on the 7710; I don't know if it will make it to maemo 5. It seems like the switch view has been mostly relegated to a show/hide key for the status and task bars. Please correct me if you know if I am wrong.

I don't mind desktop apps being available. My concerns are: 1) that maemo 5 discards some of UI features in the lieu of a more desktop like environment; 2) that the only variant of the N900 will have a keyboard; and 3) we end up with a lot of mediocre ported desktop apps instead of good maemo apps.