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Re: GUI suggestion
by pos on Thursday 07/Dec/2000, @11:33

To go a bit further Simon,

The location toolbar is not stricly necessary in this form factor either. My guess is that usability studies would show that pda's aren't used for browsing so much as they are for checking known (and thus bookmarked) sites.

The status bar can show the current location just as well as the url text box, therefore making it somewhat redundant. A toolbar button that brings up the url entry would be sufficient in the case that the user would want to navagate to a new site.

One could even go as far as maing the status bar only a toolbar button that brings up a tooltip on mouse over. (pen over?) What about a fullscreen mode?

overall, great work!

-pos

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Re: GUI suggestion
by cph on Thursday 07/Dec/2000, @12:17

I would go even further and say that the title in the titlebar is not really necessary, and could be replaced by what is now the status bar/current status bar. Or at least on mouse-overs ?

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Re: GUI suggestion
by Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes on Thursday 07/Dec/2000, @12:44

Oh, there is a titlebar? Totally unnecessary as a window shouldn't be resizable at all. The current application is always maximized on a PDA (except for dialog boxes).

And mouse-over effects are not possible on a PDA, as you most often don't have a mouse but a touchscreen.

Regards,
Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes

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Re: GUI suggestion
by Simon on Thursday 07/Dec/2000, @12:58

The titlebar I can't remove that easy, because it's what the Qt windowing system provides (well, I probably could remove it, but I'll better leave that to Qt ;-)

You are definitely right on the statusbar issue. I will probably remove it then and implement "pen-overs" as tooltips (so that when you hover over a link the url gets displayed as tooltip, not in the statusbar.

Bye, Simon

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Re: GUI suggestion
by Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes on Thursday 07/Dec/2000, @14:59

"Pen-overs" are impossible - the touchscreen doesn't know where the pen is until you tap it. What you describe is implemented as follows in Psion Web: Tap once, link is displayed in a corner of the screen. Tap again, link is followed. These corner messages are Psion's variant of status bars - another great way of saving screen space.

Regards,
Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes

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