[haiku-development] Re: Who's working Haiku's on UI/UX?
- From: Juha-Jarmo Heinonen <o@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 15:34:45 +0300
On 2015-05-19, at 3.01, Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Touchscreens have shaken things up a bit, but often they are
*less* convenient than the mouse.
The main thing touch screens have going on is removing the HID device
abstraction layer between the user and what the user sees, from the user’s
point of view. There’s no mouse cursor to move with a separate device and
simulating button presses by pointing the mouse and clicking one of its
buttons, rater you just directly press the button on the screen with your
finger and that’s it.
The current touch screen interfaces however are just second-gen (first-gen
being Newton, Palm Pilot and such). Give them some time and better
implementations of advanced interaction will be invented. Multi-touching for
instance is way underutilized and some form of chorded multitouch-typing could
eventually replace physical keyboards in usability. The on-screen keyboards
we’ve seen so for are merely placeholders until the better thing gains momentum.
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