What a mess, eh?

Recently I read a quote from a newly hired Nokia executive about GUI design. It was something about how most mobile OS's currently out there require the user to go back through the front door if they wish to start another task. The front door was used in his metaphor and he stated that if you are in the living room of your house and you want to go to the kitchen, you go to the kitchen. You don't go back outside and enter the kitchen through the front door again like you have to do with some OS's that require you to first hit a "home" key or somesuch.

He proposed that a mobile OS should be the same way. When you are involved with one task and want to say listen to music while doing so you should be able to go right to the media player (or whatever) from the task you are in instead of having to go back "home" first, yadda, yadda, yadda...

I bring this up here because right now, in order to find a relevant wiki article you need to at least find an index of links... there is a pretty good one already >> http://wiki.maemo.org/Main_Page

In order to get to it from this forum you need to first start clicking on the links in the bar at the top of this page. I don't readily know which one because none actually say WIKI...

Let's first try the "Intro" link >> http://maemo.org/intro/

Nope... No WIKI links there.

How about we now try the next link on that bar "Downloads"?

>> http://maemo.org/downloads/Maemo5/

Nope... No WIKI links there either.

Moving along, let's hit the next link on that bar "Community".

>> http://maemo.org/community/

Bingo!

Down that page there is a WiKi header, cool... But wait, there is only what appears to be 8 categories.

Is that all there is?

I hope not.

Let's try the first one that may appear to a new user to be just a bunch of random letters taken from the alphabet...

>> http://wiki.maemo.org/SMSCON

Nope, no index but if you look to the right you see a bunch of new links and one of them is "Main Page".

Is it the main page of the forum?

If you look up you will see that you must log-in so I guess we are not in Kansas anymore Toto.

Lets click on it anyway and see what happens!

>> http://wiki.maemo.org/Main_Page

Whoo Hoo, we found it!

But as was mentioned earlier, there doesn't seem to be any categories for legacy devices...


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So, borrowing the metaphor I refer to at the top of my post:

In this case it appears that if you are in the forum "living room" you need to climb out a window, climb into the neighbors living room through their window, then go out side and enter the WiKi "kitchen" through their front door.

The trouble is, they may have already thrown out the food you like.