Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

[Tim Newsom]

-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Rutledge <shawn.t.rutledge at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 10:53 AM
To: Thomas Wood <thomas at openedhand.com>
Cc: openmoko-devel <openmoko-devel at lists.openmoko.org>
Subject: Re: Usability Review of OpenMoko GTK+ Applications

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> This is contrary to expectations, based on having used other phones.

> IMO if you click in that area, it should open a quickie little control
> panel from which you can change all the most important settings (power
> on/off the GSM/GPS/Bluetooth, make BT discoverable, set the ring
> "profile", maybe others but I think those are the important ones)
> That way you don't have to click on a specific status icon: touching
> anywhere in the right 1/3 or so of the status bar would bring up the
> same panel.

I like that suggestion, but I would like to suggest one thing. Make the
entire toolbar a single clickable area. When clicked a panel opens with
finger sized buttons for all status icons currently displayed.  Clicking the
finger sized button will take the appropriate action. This will increase the
number of clicks by one, but keep it 'finger clicking good'.

Maybe force a configurable time of press requirement, say 2 seconds, before
activation to prevent accidental clicks.

--Tim