Brainstorm

Brainstorms, category User Experience

Enable hardware arrow keys universally

Posted on 2010-02-19 13:41 UTC by Jamil Shehadeh. Status: Under consideration, Categories: User Experience.

Scrolling through lists (using the touchscreen) on ALL touch screen devices is, in my opinion, rubbish.

For example, I often find that I am accidentally selecting images in the Photos viewer and dialing numbers when scrolling the call log.

By far the worst offender is the Applications list: going through the list is a complete pain.

Maybe touchscreen devices aren't for me ;)

Maybe so. But as the N900 has a keyboard, I propose the hardware arrow keys are enabled across all applications.

Kinetic scrolling is a really clever way to get quickly through a long list. But if you're touching the screen, it is too easy to accidentally select the wrong item, or miss the thing you were looking for and have to go back up the list again, and go too far again, then have to go down again ...

 

Maemo has no audio UI (AUI)

Posted on 2010-02-22 18:29 UTC by David Falkayn. Status: Under consideration, Categories: User Experience.

Executive summary: Maemo has no text-to-voice or built-in voice command ("handsfree") functionality.

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Automatic Keylock based on built-in proximity sensor

Posted on 2010-02-28 14:13 UTC by Saâd BENAMTI. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Utilities, User Experience, System.

The idea is to use the proximity sensor to detect if the phone is inside a pocket.  

Somehow to replace the function of the lock slider with an automatic keylock function so the phone automatically locks when the proximity sensor is being covered, and automatically unlocks when the sensor is uncovered again

Also, When you make or receive a call, the automatic keylock deactivates.

If you are or was a symbian user, you may recognize PocketSensor that does the same job...

Anyone can do a little applet to allow this handy "feature"?


Discussion: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=549875#post549875

 

 

Voicemail Notifications

Posted on 2010-03-19 02:31 UTC by Jeff Geisperger. Status: Under consideration, Categories: User Experience.

No easy way to know if you have unlistened to voicemails.
 

Modest and Mailing Lists Commands

Posted on 2010-03-31 21:08 UTC by Matthew Wronka. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Desktop, Internet & Networking, User Experience.

RFC 2369 describes various headers that are designed to facilitate manipulation with mailing lists.  Currently, the modest e-mail client doesn't recognize any of them or treat them specially.

In desktop mail clients, at the very least, usually the List-Post command is used to provide a "reply to list" option in addition to the regular "reply" and "reply-all" options.  Often List-Unsubscribe or List-Help are also presented to the user.

Screen real-estate is precious for modest, which presents a question of how this information should be surfaced to the user (if at all).