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	Siggen	2010-05-11 , 02:41
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Originally Posted by twoboxen

Now that Android on the n900 looks more possible than ever, I'm just curious what you guys think an ideal button map would be. It would be great if we could have the home, menu, and back button functional when in portrait (closed) mode.

I would love to keep the volume rocker dedicated to that, so that would leave the power button, camera button, (maybe) proximity sensor, and (maybe) the power switch.

What if we could use the camera button like it is with camerad... so when the camera was closed it could be a two way switch: click it half way and it would be menu and all the way in would be back? Then the power button could be home.

Thoughts?

Im not used to using Andorid, but I think it would be very useful having important buttons in portrait with the keyboard shut.

I also think the volume rocker should be used as that,
I think the back button should be put on tapping the proximity sensor, the home button to power, and the menu to the camera while the lid is shut.

As i said i am not used to the feel of android so im not certain, but if the menu button i redundant, (if the functionally is always available on screen) it should be left out, so that it would only be power and camera all the way down to be used as physical buttons.

@DJ_Steve
I also read on wikipedia about user created hacks to add file support for files like flac and better microSD support, these hacks should be added if they are not (all in due time i know, im not asking that you work faster :P ) and i presume that the nitdroid is rooted?