Thread: can the '08 GUI be ANY crappier?
View Single Post
danramos's Avatar
danramos is offline danramos
2008-08-25 , 16:27
Posts: 4,672 | Thanked: 5,455 times | Joined on Jul 2008 @ Springfield, MA, USA
#10
Originally Posted by TA-t3 View Post
Well, I don't have any hands-on experience with OS2008 yet, but all the pictures I've seen looks ugly to me, compared to OS2007. It looks childish toyish, and everything is huge, which is probably to make it 'finger friendly', which I don't care for at all. The stylus/finger detection mechanism in OS2007 works well for those few situations where a larger click area is welcome. The changes I want for the UI in OS2007 are all about getting _more_ information into the display, not less.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one that noticed that and thought exactly that! When I used OS2007 and it switch between stylus menu and finger menu, it was actually pretty impressive and one of the selling points to some of the people I've talked to was that the Nokia tablets know the difference between a stylus pressing a point and a finger blotting out a portion of screen. It felt like I was deprived of a very important detail and feature when OS2008 removed that.
 

The Following User Says Thank You to danramos For This Useful Post: