Bill R. WASHBURN On Feb 26, 2013 11:16 AM, "Bruno Girin" <brunogi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Posting back to the list as this was sent to me only :-) Comments below.
Oops, thanks. > On 26/02/13 15:17, Bill R. WASHBURN wrote: >> On-the-fly adjustments to the sound level could be performed through the volume keys. > Yes but one of the design principles for Ubuntu is that it should not need to rely on physical buttons. They should be used if they are available of course. The move in this sector away from any buttons at all is a poor design decision. Volume, push to talk, camera, power, and maybe a lock slider should be physical keys on a phone or tablet. Power is super obvious but the user should be able to operate volume, camera, and push-to-talk without removing one's gloves (which generally means not interacting with the screen). The additional benefit to a dedicated camera key is speed of access to the camera app. I've missed a number of great pictures of my daughter because I had to PIN unlock my phone and navigate to the camera app before I could use it. I should be able to find and raise/lower the volume without removing the phone from my ear, my eyes from the road, or the device from my pocket, depending on the scenario. On-screen volume in place of physical volume on a device meant to be mobile can be dangerous. Volume should also be available via the interface (when the device is across the room in TV mode for example). Similar to the camera, a dedicated push to talk key gives the user the ability to use the feature with a single gloved hand and, like the volume keys, allows the feature to be used without the user having to look at the screen. > Having to configure each application individually sounds very clunky to me! Installing a new app should be easy. This is why I like the N9's implementation: a generic volume setting that applies to all apps + a ring profile with associated volume (when in ringing mode) that applies to all alerts. And the volume buttons control the generic volume settings, not the ring. > > Should we go for full profile support like BlackBerry, I would argue that there should be sensible defaults so that a new application can be installed without any additional configuration. Agreed. And the blackberry I had did have default configurations for new apps which were fairly accurate for the default profiles; it was custom profiles that had more configuration. And there might have been a way to set up a default settings for av new profile. An "apply these settings to all profiles" would be a way to quickly apply the same ringtone/notification sound for a given application across all profiles. Having the highly configurable options available doesn't mean that it has to be horrendous to use although Ubuntu desktop doesn't have a great track record in this area, IMHO. (A good example of a setting with many options but still easy to use is the regional formats settings screen in Windows; compare to Ubuntu desktop's regional format settings in which you have to pick a preconfigured option by country or edit text files make the change). Bill R. WASHBURN
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