All, I vote for Icons..........and with color too! The Mac proved that icons are a good thing for human interface effectiveness/productivity. And color provides a third/fourth dimension. Best Regards, John Holmblad Acadia Secure Networks, LLC * * Karoliina.T.Salminen at nokia.com wrote: > > >still not very attractive. For example, I like to use the hand writing > >input, but the panel is a big mass of black that not only looks bad, but > > As Eero pointed out, maybe your theme is not what it is for all the > others, maybe > you have something misconfigured. Please try clean image without > restoring a broken backup. > > >is harder to see the details of it. In the terminal program, I used to > >have green text on black, but while I can set the background to black, I > >don't see any way to change the text colour. It's always black. It would > >be nice, if the old styles was available. > > So you want something that is retro rather than being easy for eyes, like > green on black -monitors in the 1970s? > > > BTW, I don't need icons etc., that look like they belong on a > child's toy. > > Hmm. Do you have something against child's toys? > > And are you saying that you would like to have > an user interface where everything would be presented as a tiny text > rather than as a visual > icon which gives a visual cue about what it is all about? > > So are you wishing for a command line interface here instead of a > graphical user interface? > Sounds like you would be. Wishing a hacker-text interface from a > commercial product > intended for ordinary people that just want to have a mobile internet > experience, > is something I wouldn't be spending my spare time for, even most open > source community people wouldn't probably like > such interface on a device of this form factor unless you are into > retro-GSM-telephones from the early 1990s. Today it > wouldn't fly (IMHO). However, if you want to try, by no means your > hands are tied, in the free software World you can start > scratchbox now and do your own ultimate user interface e.g. with > ncurses if you like and even replace hildon-desktop with > it in your own device if you so prefer (it is quite easy task to do > even) and if you are totally lucky you might even > find some other users for your text-mode interface and it would be > no-icons-guaranteed. > > Best Regards, > Karoliina > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >
