Notices

Sorry, I guess I wasn't too clear. What I was trying to say is that, in the OS2008 desktop (is that the right word?), the icons for power, network status, etc. are at the top right. So, I'm used to looking in that direction to see, for example, battery %. In Canola, though, it's on the top left. Similarly, in the OS2008 desktop, the web, contacts, applications menus are activated along the left side of the screen. The "four little squares" thing at top-right in Canola, if it does become a kind of task switcher, would seem to me to be analogous to those 3 menus. That's why I think they're kind of backwards. I do get, though, that placing them by frequency of use makes sense as well.

I can tell that the Canola folks have thought a lot about making the UI usable, innovative and attractive. I really appreciate this, and UI design is by no means my area of expertise. Just my feedback - use it or not as you guys see fit.

BTW - Love Canola! My iPod is gathering dust. When I show friends the NIT device, Canola is always what knocks their socks off. Thanks!

Hi Brian,

Ah! you really clarified now I now got your point. Well, that's the problem. Canola was meant exactly to break the "maemo"'s rules, because we were not happy, and we thought that at least for media, there should be a better way to use the device.

The first thing that bothers me a lot, and we changed since canola 1 is the need to port the old "taskbar" concept to a mobile device. Maemo's hildon desktop looks like a old UI (actually it is old, it's the Nokia 7700 and 7710 UI, without the 3 softkey on the right) and to me it brings you to a lot of problems of space, exactly because it reserves too much space for things that should have "less importance" that the current task you're up to.

So, we decided, that we would follow a complete different way, and this is why we don't have a "windowed" mode. It just do not make sense. So, we took one thing for granted : we are the "wrong" ones... not maemo, so we do not "interact" with the other UI in any point, because if we did, then lot of our design would need to be changed, so instead of break in several ways the guidelines we decided to create our own

So, we are wrong in a sense that we are "integrated "with the default UI, but I think we are quite right with our goals, so I do not justify to anything that is outside but inside I will listen, think about it, and if we are wrong I will gladly change it to improve usability and the look and feel.

And, if it becomes a task switcher, it would not be analogue to those 3 menus, as we plan to give focus to the media, and to the notifications, not to "applications" themselves.

But anyways, I always honestly thanks people just for writing up some suggestion, and if you have more, keep them coming at least they will be "commented" and explained by us in some way also this is our way to say thank you!

BR