Thread: Moblin-based mediaphone
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2009-06-04 , 14:49
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#19
Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
i'm not "people". i'm somebody who fell in love with the 770 because it had a full desktop on a 4" screen. i did already cry when the big menus and fat scrollbars destroyed this with their "finger-friendliness".

so from that background i think you'll understand that the current moblin UI on the 4.5"-5" screen i'm hoping for would be pure porn for me. - read my "appealing" above this way.
Soylent Green is "people".

Even the 770 was heavily non-full desktop. We optimized heavily, from having only one window on screen at the same time to basically redoing every UI on the device. nothing from "the full desktop", in terms of UI, could be utilized directly.

Ok, so this is just my personal opinion here: The full desktop experience is really great, on a full desktop. Trying to emulate the full desktop experience on something which is very far from being a full desktop will only leave you with a bad taste in your mouth.

Naturally people have different definitions on what is a "full desktop experience". Being able to install applications, to multitask etc. are all of course very good parts of the experience. But in terms of the UI I fail to see why emulating the desktop UI would be a good idea on a non-desktop device. The UI should suit the device in question.

Naturally it's also a curve. There are already 10-12" display laptops running OSX or Windows, somehow ok. The Moblin UI is clearly designed for the MID screen sizes, looks quite right for 6-9".

I don't think it would be an impossible task to try to design an UI style that would scale from 3" to 9", but at least the current Moblin 2.0 UI, as in the screenshots on the site right now, does not do it.
 

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