Thread: Maemo 5 design decision: call lists (was: Wired Magazine - hands on with the n900)
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Originally Posted by OVK View Post
The problem seems to be that the phone aspect and computer aspect are both important.
There is a lot inbetween a person who has a smartphone only to phone and a person who has a smartphone only to smartinternet. Somewhere inbetween these 2 extremes is a turning point where a customer will say: "Although the N900 does not provide me the fine-grained phone/voice options I have on my N97, if add it all up, the N900 is the better choice for me."

I think that much frustration arises from the fact that there should not be a problem for N900 also to be an excellent phone.
Time = money. More features = more delay.

For example this call list thing: does it really mess up the whole UI design if the user is given a change to filter the messages by their type by for example adding small icons (for missed, called and answered calls) on top of the long list? These icons could be clicked and after that the call list would be sorted according to call type? Could even the icons separating the call types act as these "buttons"?
Either you follow your HIG or you adapt your HIG. No exceptions.

(Why? Else becomes mess. Then some other applications will hack around it in different way. And another applications will use same and say "well, he does it too, and he's official part of the software". The way GNOME deals with this I like: you either follow GNOME's HIG and become a part of GNOME or you remain a 3rd party application which is perfectly fine, and entirely your choice, but then you are not official part of GNOME framework. This rule has been as is for long, and I don't know about KDE, but it wouldn't surprise me if they also have this.))

I'd assume there would be a way to get to Settings for this and add the filtering you suggest but I haven't used this part of software yet.

Maybe some kind of search for the phone list, with filters, would be useful. This could even be part of Tracker. Is this a reasonable alternative?
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