>I don't understand how you could have seen that video you linked to,
>and still think that the problem was one that could be solved by a
>tutorial.
>tutorial.
The biggest issue is imo, that the current tutorial for the gestures is
about 30 seconds long and the user is then left alone. He has to
remember all gestures. Trying to learn 6~10 actions at once, he'll
probably have forgotten most of them after a day of not using the
phone actively in the beginning. Hence the text hinting idea from
my last e-mail:
during a border swipe-in from ANY border, all possible actions are
shown as text hints until the touch-up event occurs. This limits the
information the user has to remenber to:
"I can swipe over any border and help with the gestures is shown."
Nonetheless, visual indicators might be better than any tutorial, agreed,
but it is what the current OS version on the E5 does for the (left/right)
edge gestures.
>But worse would be the problem shown in the video: invoking the
>gestures when you meant to do something inside the app instead.
I did not experience this on my device unless I was less than two
millimeters away from the screen edges. So I assume this was either
fixed in software or the screen is now sensitive and accurate enough.
>Even worse than that would be invoking one edge gesture when you
>meant to invoke the one next to it.
A visual cue (e.g. icon sliding inward following the finger), hinting which
action it would be. The action then only triggers if the icon went far
enough towards the screen center.
>And all this is ignoring that some of those edge segments aren't even
>reachable by the typical hand.
These would be the edges for less used actions, where the user can afford
to use two hands or they could have the same action as the one next
to it. (user configurable)
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