Footer

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Overview

The Footer provides status information, permanent, and temporary indicators.

Usage Cases

  • Used in all layouts as trigger for task-manager and switcher between the two most-recent applications.

Appearance & Interaction

http://wiki.openmoko.org/images/e/e2/Panel_footer.png

  • 1) Applications History -- Thumbnail views of recently used applications. Details are in the History application.
  • 2) Status Text -- for text status, permanent (ex: text editor overwrite / replace), and temporary (incoming sms) indicators The background of the status area should be a progress bar if needed.
  • 3) Toggle Application -- like pressing Alt+Tab on a Desktop PC.

Icons

Image:Toggle Application.png

  • Toggle Application

Image:Application History.png

  • Application History

UI Position

Image:Footer p.png

Constraints

(TBD)

Architectural Details

  • This is an individual executable.

Implementation Recommendations

  • Could be derived from GtkStatusbar
  • Needs to offer a dbus interface for setting the contents on the status bar.

Cross-Widget Interactions

(TBD)

Unresolved Issues

(TBD)

Questions and Answers

(None)


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