Hi,
I do not know how about you but I am missing simple/constant/bulit in clock in Modern UI mode.
In desktop mode (unless you hide taskbar) clock is always there for you in the right bottom corner...
In Modern UI we can add Clock Tile but it is not the same. As soon as you start an app it is gone .
I know there are many apps (like games) that (as in full screen desktop) will not display and should not display such an information. However apps like Mail, browser, etc. , let say all productivity ones should.
Any chances to get extension (perhaps one of you can write it?? ) that will display clock in Chrome when fired up in Modern UI mode as show on the picture:
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/i30qleogizcebjv/Chrome clock.png
This space in Chrome is not used for anything so it could nice display time What do you think?
I fully agree...!
If you bring up the charms bar the time is displayed
I know - but there is (in most cases) so much unused space on the screen that it should be there all the time.
Space on the tiles themselves could be used better as well
>I know - but there is (in most cases) so much unused space on the screen that it should be there all the time.
It's Metro's design language--having an ascetic interface with as little "chrome" as possible for a clean look. Having an on-screen clock would go against that.
There are a number of issues with Metro--one is the lack of visual hints that impedes discoverability, thereby decreasing user-friendliness. Constant-updating Live Tiles also run counter to the clean UI that ostensibly was for minimizing distractions.
One major complaint with Metro of course is that it's incomplete, and needs to invoke the desktop for many functions. The other biggie is the "business decision" of forcing Metro on users, and not allowing boot-to-desktop.
My personal beef against the Metro design is its use of horizontal scrolling for the main UI elements, notably the Start Screen and many of the Bing apps. Ergonomically, horizontal scroll is less efficient than vertical scroll, especially for text. Secondly, it limits the tablet to landscape mode, which is probably the intent, as all (16:9) Windows tablets work poorly in portrait. Fine for media, poor for readers or web surfing, or any use that involves long text.
Getting back to your point, Metro is as mentioned an incomplete implementation, and hopefully the next rev will expand on its functionality. I don't think a clock on the start screen is in the cards, however.
More intriguing is the possibility of a 3rd-party shell that can replace Metro at some point down the road. Assuming this touch UI thing doesn't flop completely on Win, I think that'll happen.
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Hey guys,
over the last few days I've gotten so annoyed that I can't use my phone (Vario II) with only one hand so I decided to do something about it. Therefore I started to go nuts in Photoshop and Visual Studio and have so far managed to get this far:
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The buttons work and the time is correct but I haven't done the appointments bit yet (any hints on how to do this in VB.net?). If anyone is interested I might release this when I get everything to work, for example the paths to the apps are currently hardcoded, I want OneHand to load them from a xml-file so they can easily be changed later on.
The icons are Crystal Clear btw, included in most Linux distros and released under the LGPL license so they are free to distribute.
Any ideas/suggestions?
EDIT: Oh, and the idea is to add submenus with large icons etc to some buttons such as messaging, settings, web, games, music. Eg so you tap Messaging, then you can chose to write a new text/mms/email and check the inbox of each. Sort of like Spb Mobile Shell but hopefully a bit more configurable..
It is very nice. Something to different to look at that is not aye-Fone-ish.
Although I like the appointment part very much, probably you might not want to go on the appointment section first, as it seems for most people it is not a priority (for me, I use Pocket Breeze, for Task+App up to 7 days ahead). From what it seems, others are looking for things like .. battery, signal strength, number of missed call/sms/voice-mail. You may want to check the ayeFone launcher for users comments as well as methods they used to get into some of the inforamtion.
For other ideas, try looking at the 'Prada' phone interface. Do a search at YouTube to see how the Prada phone interface behave.
For much interesting interface, try YouTubing for 'Neonode' as well.
The Prada phone interface looks very inteesting. Might try to emulate some of those functions. Currently I find the Windows Mobile interface to be pretty much unusable for a phone. Everything is way too small and cluttered. Ill fire up Photoshop and see what I can come up with
BTW, almost forgot about this. Take a look at this program "rlToday". Go to its official website, look at all the possible 'skin' people are using. From what it seems, it can produce the interface you've shown above (big buttons to launch apps) and clock (without the appointment part) BUT, it also ables to show how many missed call, SMS, etc.
Thought you might want to know this to avoid making duplicated efforts. Happy coding.
Over in the Elf forum we love the htc cube. this is an application that has sides and a face. one side has general apps, one has multimedia apps, and one contacts and phone.
it is very useful but cannot be fully modified.
We all love the cube and want to reconfigure it but cannot quite get it right...transformation issues, and some icons that cannot change, etc.
I wonder if someone could do a similar app that was more configurable? if the animation was too hard what about movement like Tene's Contact Manager or a dissolve transformation ???
Sadly I am no longer a coder but would be happy to donate for such an app...
just thinking out load,
Sam.
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This is a small test of a work-in-progress.:
http://rapidshare.com/files/43755638/FlashBox.zip.html
the "oficial" site is actually a portuguese forum:
http://www.pocketpt.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=16424
i am really contemplating on the same ideas as well.. but having ideas without any knowledge in programming really sucks for me..
i stumbled this very nice transition animation thingies which are said written in dotNET framework 2..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOMrPz56OVo
link to the developer can be found here
the project is made only for smartphones but i think the transitions switches and its idea can be used in a revolutionary PPC launcher of some sort..
i quite don't like having a launcher that eats the whole screen (just like the touchflo cube), hiding the top and bottom bars, giving the user an illusion of having a "new" and "exciting" interface - but then after you select something, you'll be pulled back to the same windows mobile interface..
maybe it's better to just stick to what Windows mobile looks like, but yet, giving it something flashy and worth seeing instead.. just like cool transitions..
maybe the swipe gesture can be used to flip the contents of the screen instead (including the top and bottom bars) rather than rotating a full screen cube.. i think it'll definitely load and feel faster than summoning a full screen application and redrawing the default interface and the launched program afterwards..
just a thought though..
That is pretty cool...hopefully it can be applied to touch screens as well.
Some excellent additional thoughts and ideas. For me a fullscreen app works best as it allows the touch interface to look much better than wm6 and gives me more 'elbow' room when using my fingers to control the application.
The flash solution looks good but I would prefer to minimise memory demands by loading as little additional software as possible.
Mind you I am no longer a coder and if it works and avoids devouring all my memory I will be VERY happy indeed.
All the best,
Sam.
Orb Interface Concept
Hello
I thought of a new interface idea that would be finger friendly and everything. Read about it on my XDA post here:
I think it would be a great interface, but I need some programers to make it happen. Get the word out about this project, and maybe something will happen.
Thanks,
Andrew
Hello to All!
I started some Workshop about Future of Mobile Windows Devices for
- Interface and OS and
- Hardware-Sugegstions
and i want to invite all of you to be Part of this and add your Concepts, Comments and Ideas.
In my Powerpoint-Presentation i worked out some Concept for A 3D-Interface for Explorer, Messaging, Filereader and some Applications-Manager (instead of A Homescreen). Here is the Link, this is about 20MB, because i put in A Lot of Screenshots and Sketches of my Idea.
Within this, you can overview everything on the first View - and there you find Illustrations of an animated graphical 3D-Interface for easy exploring with Thumbnails of everything that is running.
My Idea includes A Concept for making Sessions of what you are doing (opened Programms, Web-Sessions, Multimedia-Sessions, Sessions for Volume, -for Settings, so that you can share whole Devices at once, ...).
Everything is presented to you in horizontal-moving Rings with Icons Rows and Thumbnails of Folders-Content:
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You can preview the Content of A Folder in Background-Icons (Levels) as Thumbnails when you hold your Finger on an Icon,
Menus and Settings and Explorer+ Readers are sorted and put together in 1 Interface - that is my Vision for Windows-Phone 7 Series and later Versions.
-Within the Apps-Manager you watch:
I also want to share with you my Idea of revolutionary Hardware-Features for Windows-Devices and how that could be realized.
Please feel free to let me know your Thoughts for some animated Interface and let's talk about your Suggestions for Future of Windows-Mobile Devices (-Should Win. be more the Way of MP3-Player or of A Tablet-PC?) and please publish Illustrations of your Thoughts and Concepts here, also Comments of the new MS Phone-Concept.
"Let's create Future"
nice job! i really liked the idea.. it's about time that somebody steps up and present a library or an idea compendium of some sort to make things uniform on most apps that comes out of XDA-DEV.. i'll subrscribe to this thread and hope it'll grow and get the attention of our dear developers..
great idea....
Nice work, it will be a nightmare to code though
good luck
Badwolve1
Design Concept for HTC Business-Edition PDA
- Clear Lines, practical Functions
- latest Technology for Work and Entertainment
- Multi-Speakers
- Multi m.SD and Sim-Card-Drives.
- Looking simple, Buttons are involved in the Device, like HTC Touch Pro 1 but the Symbols are made of pure Chrome.
- Material: black Glass-Surface in one Peace of black Glass all around, you can see the Inside of the Chips, CPU, ...
- Not removable 4.100 mAh Power-Battery. With kinetic self-loading Cells by Shaking, like in some Watches.
- Storage: RAM is 2 GiGs, CPU is 1,8 GHZ with Dualcore, inside 3D-Graphical Device.
- Antenna: Active-Antenna, that creates A stereo Stream with 2 Poles, 16 Times more faster than HSDPA-Signal and measures the Difference of Outer-Influences - so it detects Signals not analog, directly, it calculates it digital from indirect Signals and filters Disturbs. So it creates some Shield that can be influenced - so the Range is Increased.
- This Device can stand on A Table, for watching TV and DVBT, Internet-TV, ...
ManuelLemke said:
- Storage: RAM is 2 GiGs, CPU is 1,8 GHZ with Dualcore, inside 3D-Graphical Device.
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THOSE ARE LAPTOP SPECS!!!!
Though, i wouldn't mind having them in a phone
Ive currently got an S2, which is a great bit of kit.. but when I saw the Note, I thought the larger screen size and higher res would be better for me, as I have poor eyesight, and am wondering if you can enlarge fonts/icons etc...?
I notice that the gui layout is 5 icons wide, could you make it 4, and have them larger instead?? or generally just have a larger font globally??
Ive been trying to do som research, but have also read that some apps think this is a tablet due to the high res screen, consequently, text is actually smaller on the device! or native phone apps dont scale and only use up about 80% of the screen...
My one companint about smartphones is they dont really seem to have any option to make things bigger so people with visual issues can see things a bit easier!!
Looking at this image, icons and text seem same size.. just more on the screen.. I would like bigger and the same!
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Don't see why not.
- First you need root.
- Once you have that, get DPI changer from market and set a custom DPI.
- Default DPI is 320, increase it to 400 and reboot.
- If its still too small, increase it further.
Font size
Yes, you can enlarge the text easily and fit the entire text (sentences) within the SGN screen.
Here is how to do it:
1. Go to internet and open any website such as Yahoo etc.
2. Once the website is open, tap the MENU button (lower left button).
3. Select setting. Setting menu will appear on screen.
4. Goto Default zoom and select Close.
5. Goto Auto-fit pages and enable it.
Exit setting and return to website and double tap the screen.
You will see that the entire text has been re-arranged to fit within the screen.
If the text is still not large enough, simply enlarge it again manually. After enlarging, the text will be larger than the screen itself, To fit it, (assuming you are in portrait), rotate the screen to landscape and back to portrait. The text now will now fit the entire screen. You do not have to move the screen around to read a complete sentence.
I am retired, need glasses to read and travel a lot. This is the only phone that I now use and carry for travel. It is also the only phone that I can use to browse the internet and read emails easily and comfortably. It replaces the iPad2 and my other world phones.
Besides being a phone, it is also an amazing GPS device. I travel extensively in Europe and south East Asia and use Sygic GPS app extensively. Being able to connect to both US and Russian satellite is truly wonderful. The screen size and clarity I think is way better than any portable GPS unit.
What is SideSqueeze?
SideSqueeze is an innovative and unique app that uses the barometric pressure sensor in your device to detect squeezes and screen presses. It is compatible only with Samsung Galaxy devices from 2017 onwards, although some people have reported varying degrees of success with Pixel devices.
What It Does
SideSqueeze gives your S8/S9/S10 series Galaxy the ability to respond to squeezes, double squeezes, triple squeezes, quadruple squeezes, long squeezes, and/or inertial squeezes, as well as force presses on the screen. For example, you can double squeeze your phone to activate Google Assistant...or maybe you'd like to quadruple squeeze to toggle auto-rotation. And now with Tasker integration, you can even create elaborate tasks to do just about anything and trigger them with any type of squeeze! SideSqueeze's new modular GUI allows you to pick and choose what you want to do with ease.
Features (not all available in trial version)
7 detectable squeeze types (single, double, triple, quadruple, long, long double-squeeze, and inertial)
3 detectable press types (single, long, and 2-finger)
Independently selectable criteria allow you to assign multiple actions to any trigger type (if lockscreen open, if homescreen open, if camera open, if S-Pen detached, if within 5-seconds of power on, if the phone is ringing, if in-call, or if screen is off)
New app picker to launch any app of your choosing
Tasker integration to launch any task of your choosing
Quick Settings tile to toggle detection engine
Wide selection of common actions, such as flashlight toggling, status bar toggling, etc
Adjustable pressure thresholds
Calibration assistant to customize SideSqueeze to your device's unique characteristics
Efficient detection algorithm that is designed to be as lightweight and low-power as possible with no significant impact on battery life
Questions?
See the in-app Help section for answers to commonly asked questions.
Where do I get it?
SideSqueeze 2 is now available on the Play store!
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I'm not able to pass through calibration (SideSqueeze), so for me it is not working.
SideSqueeze is on sale for $1.99 through July 13th!
Version 2.07 (just released) offers better reliability and faster response-time, especially when "Disable baseline verification" is set (checked) on the settings panel (go to the About or Help tab, tap the gear icon on the top-right corner).