Support for Left handers

Jason Elwell elwell at smartlp.com
Sat Jul 14 20:50:05 CEST 2007


Added section for a "left-handed mode" to the "UI Improvements" page.

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/UI_Improvements#Left-handed_UI_Support

Regards,
Jason1


On Saturday 14 July 2007 13:21:33 Jae Stutzman wrote:
> On 7/14/07, Mark <markitect at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Adding left hand support shouldn't be too hard.  We would just add a
> > config option that is read by the ui library and then everyone that
> > uses the standard ui library would automatically have a left handed
> > application.  So the main question is what all do you want moved(I am
> > right handed)?
> >
> > The scroll bar is the obvious one, would you like the spinner thing
> > and the button on the bottom switch as well.  (seems like that would
> > be the best way to keep the scroll seperate).  Also what about the top
> > and bottom status bars and such.  I think someone should edit some of
> > the screen shots to how they would like a lefty screen to look and
> > post it somewhere in the wiki for discussion.
>
> I don't think the whole screen should be mirrored! There are some elements
> that should remain..like the main top bar with the status icons and such.
>
> Scrollbars are the main thing I can think of right now. I agree a wiki page
> should be added for left handed ui discussion.






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