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Firmware update wishlist for the N900: 35 things that need sorting in the Nokia N900 (software wise)
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kwotski
2009-12-22 , 20:22
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Interesting read, thanks
Some ideas about the UI (mostly the browser):
Configurable option so that close application goes to last used application instead of the "multitask screen"
Same for web pages, so that close a browser window goes to the last viewed browser window.
Select text (hover mode) in browser by proximity "button" or camera button.
Remember the zoom state between page loads in the browser
Remember the zoom state / font settings per-site. (Maybe asking a bit much that ..
)
When you close a browser window and click on the last viewed one to get back to it, it does a last minute re-draw, and (at least on TMO in classic dark theme) can slightly mess up. Stop doing this.
The browser "long press" menu could have more options - at least back one page (without going to the history screen) would be useful. There's probably others (view source?, don't use css, like mozilla's view->page style->no style?)
An enhanced functionality wish-list item:
Please provide a full set of kernel modules to work with the stock kernel. In particular the firewall and routing ones, and filesystem ones!
People are starting to look at home-brew kernels (some at
considerable personal risk
) and while this is great for the advanced user (in theory) it is something of a minefield for the adventurous but clue-deprived. A bit of help from the Nokia kernel people here would remove the necessity for normal users to go kernel-flashing in order to get functionality that is normal and expected on standard linux installs.
Favourite suggestion from the article:
I think would be the 5-way (but why not 6?) vertically swipable desktops. Swiping upwards from any desktop gets you desktop 5. Scrolling down from there gets you where you started from, scrolling up again gets you desktop mod4(initial-desktop-number + 2). Reverse up/down for desktop 6... Well, not likely to happen maybe, but can't hurt to think about it (actually
n-dimensional desktops have been considered
in a different thread..
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