<pre><br><b>Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote:</b><br> > The main problem I see with the "tab bar" approach is that for devices<br> > as small as n8x0 you don't have enough screen space to put that much<br> > of information there. That was the main UI error with Maemo until<br>
> Diablo release.<br><br>I can understand that, but I have no better idea than a (vertical or horizontal) tab bar to switch from activity to activity. Zoom take too much resources and I don't think it make sense on such small devices.<br>
<br>Open question to every reader: How to switch from activity to activity on a MID? Something that is visible to the user right from the start and do not take too much space.<br><br>One other idea would be a slide down display like yakuake, blender config, and iPhone context menu.<br>
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|..|...000...000...000...000...000....|..| <br>|..|___________________________|..|<br>|..................................................|<br>|_______________________________|<br><br>In that case, the top area would only be a panel with autohide, but I don't like that, it fell to much like a palm and I don't like those devices. On netbook, I would use tab bar it work well. iPhone and iPod touch solved the problem with the "only one application at the time". I work, but I am not sure it will work for KDE and it is not how plasma work at all. Any better idea?<br>
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