SonWon wrote:
Barry Drake wrote:
Hi David .........
David Trotz wrote:
Certainly lets discuss this further. I would like to hear others opinions as
well; including Albert Sites and Barry Drake.
If we diverge to two separate menus we need to implement some way to keep them
in sync, so that when a smartphone developer adds a menu item reflecting some
new feature the windows mobile devs get the menu automatically as well, and
visa versa.
I think it's just fine. It's exactly what I would have done, and I
don't think we ought to go for two different interfaces. This keeps the
whole thing simple - and it is intuitive and works well. It also gives
a nice uncluttered text screen!
I'll be disappointed if I have to use my Windows Mobile device like a
SmartPhone. I paid the extra money to have the extra functionality and
desire to use that functionality. I think it would be easy to give the
user an option as mentioned in a previous post. Hopefully someone else
will agree with me :)
That's not a fair statement ;-) If you look at many apps that you run on
your windows mobile device, you will find that at least 50% of them do
the 2 menu system, especially those that have both the smartphone and
pocketpc support. But John, I will agree with you that having a more
complex menu available would be nice.
So this is what I propose (actually you already made a mention of this):
Let's make the two menu system default out of the box, which will be our
official menu where every single command will be guaranteed to exist,
and let's allow for an alternate menu system available through the
preferences. I personally won't be spending much time right now to
implement this, I want to focus on a few other areas first. You are free
to take it on if you like John.
My only concern is that SwordReader grows so complicated that it is hard
to use. If you take a look at Bible Reader by OliveTree you will find a
very nice bible program but at times overly complex w/ 2 fully
customizable menu bars. While I love the flexibility, I can see someone
like my wife getting frustrated with the complexity. Now in contrast if
you look at Palm Bible+ you will see a simple yet elegant interface.
This is the interface I want to try to imitate.
In Christ,
David Trotz
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