1.1.9.28 desktop screen estate

asked 2015-09-26 02:04:13 +0200

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why is with this release battery % and so on displayed all the time in lockscreen and desktop? are you also planning on introducing buttons to close/minimize/menu applications to make the move towards mainstream UIs complete, and by when will this happen?

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Because it means that now you don't have to hold your finger on the screen to watch the phone status because it is not hidden between the screens anymore. One bad design decision less.

ScumCoder ( 2015-09-26 10:32:20 +0200 )edit
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@ScumCoder what you call a bad design decision is your perception, I call a missing keyboard a bad design decision.

@Low could be worse imagine you get that drop-down notifications pulley from android added on top (or that shrug tap-able pulley from Harmattan)

chemist ( 2015-09-26 12:04:45 +0200 )edit

@ScumCoder I can see moving things, so I don't hold the screen for a quick glance on the info

Low ( 2015-09-26 16:28:47 +0200 )edit

Looks like the difference between verbs "see" and "watch" wasn't enough, so I'll elaborate. What I meant was that I want to continuously see the phone status for a while. E.g. I'm traveling in an underground train and want to know when the cellular signal appears. Or I'm waiting for the GNSS to warm up.

The battery percentage, cellular signal strength, use of GNSS and so on are so extremely important that most OS designers feel necessary to always show them in what is known as 'status bar'. MeeGo designers even made it possible to show it on a locked phone's screen, so that you won't even have to unlock your phone. And yet some people here on TGC find this information so unimportant that it shouldn't be even shown all time, only when you hold the screen with your damn finger. This is utterly baffling, right on the verge of Poe's law.

ScumCoder ( 2015-09-26 18:06:48 +0200 )edit