Thanks for the tip - I'll file with each as appropriate. I still think having some guidelines - perhaps not mandatory - would be well advised. I believe Apple has UI guidelines which are usually well respected and enable a certain familiarity to users as you open something for the first time. On 1/29/07, Mike Lococo <mpl22 at cornell.edu> wrote: > Jonathan, > > > It seems there is no standard for how developers design home screen > > applets. I'd like to see there be a mandatory resize function so you > > could make sure that things could be smaller or larger as needed. Two > > examples are the GPE-Calendar and Canola applets which I'd make > > smaller. > > In the open source world, it's fairly difficult to enforce mandatory > standards. Your best bet is to submit an enhancement bug to each of the > projects you'd like to see improved. > > GPE has their issue tracker at this address: > http://bugzilla.handhelds.org/ > > I'm not sure about Canola, their issue tracker may be at > garage.maemo.org, or it may be somewhere else, or it may just be the > author's email address. > > Thanks, > Mike > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -- Jonathan Greene m 917.560.3000 AIM / iChat - atmasphere gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene at gmail.com Gizmo - JonathanGreene blog - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp
