Thread: Maemo 5 Alpha SDK released
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2009-03-05 , 12:26
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Originally Posted by Master of Gizmo View Post
Oh, you are right, clicking outside the dialog closes it and it seems to be handled like "cancel". Wow, how counterintuitive!!! Honestly, this is not the first time i am using a computer and i did not understand how to close a dialog. I think that's the worst case for a UI.
Hopefully they've done, or will do, user testing on this. I know that Canola uses the same method to close the dialogs that slide in from the right-hand side, and it took me a few seconds to guess how to dismiss those the first time I saw them.
Originally Posted by Master of Gizmo View Post
Also the color theme is pretty ugly, agreed. Seems to be some special low-contrast military camouflage style ...
Well a black background is the iPhone style, isn't it, now copied by several other handhelds. I'm not saying it's good, but I can see why they've picked it.