in the menu? I can't see how that would make any sense, personally. Though, come to think of it, there's not currently much sense in the ordering, anyways.
One thing that always bothered me, however, is that when choosing your active standby apps, those aren't in alphabetical order, and they should be.
i think by default they are ordered depending on what the device's focus is, for example, in a music device, the music player (or music folder) will be the icon selected when you go into the apps menu. a photo device, the camera app? a video device, the gallery? on my E90 it's the messaging app. and other related apps are just a keystroke away (using the number keypad that corresponds to the grid position of icon). of course, you can always change the order to fit your liking.
or perhaps the music player is already assigned to one of the softkeys on the idle screen? i just know it's not entirely random how the icons are placed, each product has their own logic and reasoning of ordering them.
The music player is defaut on the idele screen yes; the gallery when you go into Applications. I kinda understand, but it still would throw me for a loop if I weren't the persistant type.
Even having these seeminly random views, there should be an option to alpha listen them. That seems more logical to have than not have.
True, it will be nice to at least have that as an option, but also keep in mind that "alphabetical order" doesn't make sense in certain languages such as chinese :)
Other languages, understandable. Just wondering why that logic isn't in those lanugages where it does make sense.
Handy Taskman shows me that when nothing by stndby is running that I have just a tick over 6MB of RAM, ouch - I see my web browsing issues plainly now.
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try list view
1 year, 3 months ago by atmasphere
in the menu? I can't see how that would make any sense, personally. Though, come to think of it, there's not currently much sense in the ordering, anyways.
One thing that always bothered me, however, is that when choosing your active standby apps, those aren't in alphabetical order, and they should be.
1 year, 3 months ago by rcadden
disagree there ... I want them in my order.
list view should be alpha, but icon is what you want / need.
1 year, 3 months ago by atmasphere
List view doesn't change them to alpha order. I agree that having them in an any order would be great; but there seems no logic to the default order.
I'd like aphabetical as it would be a nice option to do a list view and then go to an app/set of apps by letter (a feature i liked on the Treo a lot).
1 year, 3 months ago by arjw
handy taskman
1 year, 3 months ago by atmasphere
Good thoughts on the program, I'll have to check it out; tis just a UI thing that I wondered.
1 year, 3 months ago by arjw
all kinds of good tricks in there ... memory, launcher etc
1 year, 3 months ago by atmasphere
oh man, if you're not using Handy Taskman, I'm surprised! I won't touch an S60 without it, really.
1 year, 3 months ago by rcadden
I am using an N75, does it really need such a "powerful" solution.
1 year, 3 months ago by arjw
Dude, handy taskman should be standard on an s60, regardless of the power
1 year, 3 months ago by rcadden
It also lets you kill apps that get stuck, and on the n75, lets you kill the music player
1 year, 3 months ago by rcadden
Oooh, really; downloading now.
1 year, 3 months ago by arjw
Nice program; doesn't adjust apps alphabetically though.
1 year, 3 months ago by arjw
i think by default they are ordered depending on what the device's focus is, for example, in a music device, the music player (or music folder) will be the icon selected when you go into the apps menu. a photo device, the camera app? a video device, the gallery? on my E90 it's the messaging app. and other related apps are just a keystroke away (using the number keypad that corresponds to the grid position of icon). of course, you can always change the order to fit your liking.
1 year, 3 months ago by cybette
Interesting. On the n75 the gallery is the default but isn't this a music device?
1 year, 3 months ago by arjw
I've never thought there was any logic to the default menu configuration on S60s.
1 year, 3 months ago by rcadden
or perhaps the music player is already assigned to one of the softkeys on the idle screen? i just know it's not entirely random how the icons are placed, each product has their own logic and reasoning of ordering them.
1 year, 3 months ago by cybette
The music player is defaut on the idele screen yes; the gallery when you go into Applications. I kinda understand, but it still would throw me for a loop if I weren't the persistant type.
Even having these seeminly random views, there should be an option to alpha listen them. That seems more logical to have than not have.
1 year, 3 months ago by arjw
True, it will be nice to at least have that as an option, but also keep in mind that "alphabetical order" doesn't make sense in certain languages such as chinese :)
1 year, 3 months ago by cybette
Other languages, understandable. Just wondering why that logic isn't in those lanugages where it does make sense.
Handy Taskman shows me that when nothing by stndby is running that I have just a tick over 6MB of RAM, ouch - I see my web browsing issues plainly now.
1 year, 3 months ago by arjw