MaemoUserInterfaceChecklist

1. Maemo User Interface Checklist

Maemo User Interface Checklist

This page is work in progress.

A quick checklist to see if you have taken everything into account when you aim for good user interface on the Maemo platform. A good overview of the environment is available here: http://maemo.org/community/hildon_ui.html - this is just a quick checklist that will contain links to relevant sections of documentation once this is finished.

• Dialogs: Use Hildon file dialogs when opening and closing files, instead of the default Gtk+ ones.

  • Also support gnome-vfs so your application can access files on the mobile phone over bluetooth etc..

• Key navigation: Maemo applications should be usable also with the hardware keys:

  • Widget focus should move in a consistent way with the navigation keys (arrow keypad)
  • The "cancel" key should cancel dialogs
  • The center key of the navigation keys should invoke the default action of dialogs (think of it as like you hit enter on a desktop machine)

• Widget style: You should use the Hildon spacing and padding for widget styles.

  • General Hildon styles: no icons on buttons / menus - widget paddings - dialog style
  • Menus and dialog buttos do not have icons on Maemo applications.