Re: Disabling the cancel button

> But I like the fact that everything can be controlled without having to get
> the stylus out. It is especially useful if you only have one hand free.

Fine, apparently your usage pattern is very different from mine. I
hardly ever close applications, there are only a few which I use
regularly and I keep them running all the time.

> At the end of the day, this is quite a subjective argument, but the
> overriding factor I think is consistency. The Cancel button has been

It depends. Consistency is part of usability, but not the only one. If
a feature gets in the way, then I'd rather have inconsistent rather
than consistently impractical behaviour.

In the ideal operating system for handhelds, any of the big buttons
would be programmable, so if someone wants a "close" button, he can
have it. In fact this would be easy to implement in Qtopia. Perhaps
the OpenZaurus folks will take up that idea.

> established as a Close button and should be kept that way. If however you
> think your application truly has a better use for it then perhaps some
> preference setting could be used?

I don't mind a preference setting, but first I need a way to get around
the forced termination !

Konrad.


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