Bugzilla Bug 591 - dialing from contacts needs to be

Tim Kersten irlkersten at gmail.com
Fri Jul 13 18:00:55 CEST 2007


On 7/13/07, Mohammed Musallam <musallam001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From: pauric <pauric at pauric.net>
> >Why not make the entire name/number cell the button.  Tap and hold for 0.25
> seconds to go >to the second page.  Then you are presented with options:
> voice, sms, email, edit (under edit >you can delete) and the voice button
> changes to hang-up button during the call.
>
> that does seem like an interesting option.. only problem is that regular joe
> won't see this intuitive if he wants to edit the contact info (he won't
> discover it naturally only by accident).
> How about reversing the logic:
> Tap -> goes to second page and dial from there
> Tap & Hold -> dials the number
>
> this way the interface mimics iphone's behavior for regular joe, but for the
> savvy he'd press and hold.
> what do you think?

Personally I'd prefer Pauls suggestion, but having said that I know
the way my "none-geek" frieds use computers and tap & hold is
difficult for them to grasp. It's probably more regular joe friendly
going with Mohammed's suggestion.

Tim

On 7/13/07, Mohammed Musallam <musallam001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From: pauric <pauric at pauric.net>
> >Why not make the entire name/number cell the button.  Tap and hold for 0.25
> seconds to go >to the second page.  Then you are presented with options:
> voice, sms, email, edit (under edit >you can delete) and the voice button
> changes to hang-up button during the call.
>
> that does seem like an interesting option.. only problem is that regular joe
> won't see this intuitive if he wants to edit the contact info (he won't
> discover it naturally only by accident).
> How about reversing the logic:
> Tap -> goes to second page and dial from there
> Tap & Hold -> dials the number
>
> this way the interface mimics iphone's behavior for regular joe, but for the
> savvy he'd press and hold.
> what do you think?
>
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