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Does your two minutes of effort also include regression testing? Did you verify that all aspects of the OS and applications which depend on the home button havi
by biot 12y ago
Does your two minutes of effort also include regression testing? Did you verify that all aspects of the OS and applications which depend on the home button having a specific behavior continue to function within OS-guaranteed response times? Have you done user testing to ensure that the delay after lifting the stylus meets with user expectations and doesn't seem like the OS is frozen? Have you met with the hardware team and verified that the lift stylus event is 100% reliable so that temporarily disabling the home button doesn't run the risk of permanently disabling the button? Are there potential race conditions such that the stylus up/down events are received out of order? If in-order reliable events can't be guaranteed 100% of the time, have you implemented a suitable watchdog-style timer to catch the cases where the event isn't properly received? Has that been fully tested?
Did you update the specification documentation with your modifications so that future developers can consult the updated specs in order to understand the impact your home button changes may have on their area of the OS?
Or I guess you can slap in some two minute script and call it done, but I'm glad you're not building my operating system.
- CamperBob2 12y agoTranslation: Want to beat Microsoft? This is how.
- rasz_pl 12y agoProcess you described produced permanent hot corners that couldnt be disabled (lower right one still cant, even in W8.1) and hardcoded inconsistent WM_SYSKEY acting differently depending on application you run (ignores bindings when Task Manager has focus). Less choice is never a good strategy when it comes to UI. btw there is a way of killing home button altogether for surface, might be useful for Gabe http://www.surfaceforums.net/forum/microsoft-surface-faq-guides/3284-how-enable-disable-home-button.html http://www.surfaceforums.net/forum/microsoft-surface-faq-gui...
- kalleboo 12y ago> Less choice is never a good strategy when it comes to UI. Apple has made quite a lot of money disagreeing with you there.
- rasz_pl 12y agoDont you mean despite? Look at gnome, look at W8. Targeting lowest common denominator is not something I would strive for. It took apple two years to finally deliver cut&paste on a phone. Were you really happy about lack of it? Was it a good thing?