Support for Left handers

Ortwin Regel ortwin at gmail.com
Sat Jul 14 23:49:17 CEST 2007


All finger buttons should be easily usable with a stylus. We are not the
iPhone.

On 7/14/07, Clare Johnstone <claregj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have noticed some suggestions for managing the touchscreen
> which would be difficult for people lacking part of an important finger.
> Arthriticky tendencies in those remaining wont help either <sigh>
> Hoping for easy stylus management...
> clare
>
> On 7/14/07, Giles Jones <giles.jones at zen.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new here, I have an OpenMoko on order and hope to do some
> > development. I'll contribute ideas and bug reports at the least.
> >
> >   I'm not sure I've ever used a touch screen mobile device that
> > caters for left handed people. On the whole there aren't many issues
> > with using devices left handed, so adding the support is easy.
> >
> > The main problem is scrollbars, when they're on the right dragging
> > the scrollbar left handed results in your hand covering the screen so
> > you can't see what you are doing. So having the option of scrollbars
> > on the left would be useful.
> >
> > Ideally if you implement such features in the interface and not per
> > application then it will all be transparent and less work will need
> > to be done.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> >
> > Giles.
> >
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