maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - will swipe to delete for email/sms etc be coming to the N900?

	fnordianslip	2009-11-30 , 23:46
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Originally Posted by osfight.de

IMHO: Why, oh why, is somebody requesting an OPTIONAL feature which is common on other brands and established and people start discussing how bad or good this feature is in general.
Seriously, I like blue, you like red. Do not try to argue away somebody's else preferences. If somebody requests swiping as a feature, I totally agree it should be added as an option.

If you ask me if swiping is better, more intuitive, cooler, Iphone, whatever, I can tell you: I like blue.

I was just thinking from a UI consistency point of view. There's no way I could go near a UI that deleted things if I brushed my finger on a touchscreen in a file-manager, and if it can't be done in a file-manager, I wouldn't want it in any other apps.
Fair enough, I don't expect you to agree with me, and if you want an option and enough people agree with you, then you should have that option, and I hope you get it. It sounds even worse than making everything fit in a portrait view on a device with a widescreen aspect ratio. I suppose in a portrait view, you'd really have to have steady fingers to avoid side-swiping stuff into oblivion ...

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