It’s like nobody who reads my comments about this issue actually understands them.
Seems to me you need to change your nym to incoherent_light…
„Ein Geisterfahrer? Hunderte!“
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I upgraded to a new Kindle Paperwhite during the recent sale, and I was a little concerned that the all-touchscreen UI might annoy me (though I also saw it as karma for my previous keyboard-model Kindle having far too many buttons). But it’s fine - I tap anywhere on the top of the screen to open the menu, and it’s plain sailing from there.
The X looks similar - the only thing you really need to know is that you swipe up from the bottom to get home. Humans, including even my parents, can learn this. The rest of the stuff doesn’t seem any different to the bells-and-whistles complexities of my crusty old iPhone 5S - unintuitive features that I don’t need and therefore don’t tend to use. I don’t mind that they exist, as long as the core stuff is simple.
I think I’d prefer a button, but I do wonder if that’s just a symptom of my advancing years. Of course the X still has three buttons and a switch - I think the continued presence of physical volume buttons is an acknowledgement that you can’t do it all with gestures; users would quickly become frustrated if they couldn’t easily manage the volume without swiping and selecting. But the replacement of the front button - the root of this discussion - seems manageable. As already noted above, the seemingly simple ‘old’ button itself masks several unintuitive features via double presses and long presses. Visual controls following a simple swipe could be preferable to this - if done right.
All side issues for me, because I want a headphone jack more than anything else…
You could also install a keyboard that shows secondary characters on the keys.
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Isn’t that a little like having to customize your car for something like turn signals?
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The < symbol is rarely used, particularly on mobile devices. So it would be like having to customize your car so that it’s easier to go over large curbs. Most people will never need it, and those that do will understand they are outliers and will install the customization. However those that don’t want to customize and still occasionally need to go over such curbs can probably do so - but they may want to google it first to make sure they do it easily and safely.
Sure, I’ll get right on that.
Actually, is that a thing? I might like to change it to something else anyway.
Is that good? Bad? Indifferent? I apparently never studied…whatever language this is.
Maybe UI flamewars should always be conducted in Swahili.
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Sure is. But even though we’re all rocking hd screens these days, mobile interfaces need to be uncluttered by default, probably because many people don’t see so good, and also because that gives rise to an aesthetic that publishers tend to stick to without considering.
You’re on the wrong thread, I think.
So why does the qwerty line indicate the numbers you get on the shift, but none of the other keys indicate that they have special powers? When I first got the Android my son had to show me that holding down the period opened up a whole new menu. On a key that had one little dot, could there really not have been an indication that it had more powers?
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„Geisterfahrer“ (ghost driver/rider) is the colloqial German term for „Driver going the wrong way (on the high way“). The base joke is:
A man drives on the autobahn. The radio program gets interrupted by a traffic warning.
“Please be advised that there is a ghost rider on A53, between Hamburg and Berlin.
The driver exclaims in astonishment: “One ghost rider? Hundreds!”
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Six if you include triple press as a user mappable accessibility shortcut.
Seven if you include double press to bring up wallet from the lock screen.
Aptly, not really all that germaine.
Oh thanks. I have no need for the accessibility, but should’ve remembered wallet. Guess I don’t go out enough.
Either way your point stands: that single button has a shitload of functionality attached to it.
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