[maemo-users] Some Thoughts Regarding IT OS 2007 and the N800

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You can do all this on Nokia phones... why not the tablet?

On 1/26/07, Simon Pickering <S.G.Pickering at bath.ac.uk> wrote:
>  > >I'd vote for the ability to change that as even some English
> > people use
> > >24hr clocks (when they can) ;)
> > >
> > >Speaking of which, would it be that much extra effort to let people
> > >change the individual regional settings (e.g. decimal
> > separator, date
> > >format). I can think of times when one might want to not have this
> > >specified (e.g. If I were an American living in Germany I
> > might always
> > >want to use a US style date, but also a comma as a decimal
> > separator).
> > >I'm sure there must be better illustrations that that one mind you!
> >
> > In general:
> > Customizability is very nice, but how to implement that in
> > clean simple way btw?
> > Meaning so that it does not increase
> > too much complexity for those who don't want to customize?
>
> Agreed, there's certainly no desire to confuse users. Therefore, what about
> one of those funny little buttons (like the "Advanced" one in the connection
> settings), which says something like "Customise" on the regional settings
> page (the one that lists date format, decimal separator, etc. - sorry if the
> dialog name is wrong, don't have my N800 in front of me atm).
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Simon
>
>


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