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#17
Originally Posted by kate View Post
Right mouse button is just one issue. There is many other
issues need to be taken under consideration. One big thing is
dialog layouts. If dialog is so large that part of it is outside of screen
it decreases usability of lot.
This also happens under desktop linux. A netbook doesn't have much more screen real estate than a tablet and kde4 works pretty well there.

Originally Posted by kate View Post
Even if you can make technically usable it does not mean
that usability is good. For small screen devices application
with good usability should be usable with finger. As example
acrelling from content pane is much more usable than tiny
scrollbars that require usage of stylus.
I personally prefer tiny scrollbars than devote scarce screen real estate to improve finger friendliness (see above).
That's my point of view, of course I cannot say it's the right one for everybody, but it is right for me.

Originally Posted by kate View Post
Maemo Qt port takes care of most of technical issues like
style and input method but it can't fix bad or unsuitablenUI design.
Again, this is the same for desktop linux.

Originally Posted by kate View Post
I strongly recommend that everyone that ports application to maemo
pays some amount of attention to usability and is just not
trying to make quick and ugly port.
While this is true, a working but ugly application is better that one not working at all.
 

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