Customers using Tamoggemon’s LocaNote have been able to live free from double tapping for some time. However, it looks like these blessings will become available to other applications soon.
In particular, the following changes were proposed:
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Scott: What inspired Ixonos to propose this change to the Symbian^3 UI?
Ilkka: Symbian touch enabled devices use mainly single taps for interactions. However, there are places where double tapping is required and this breaks UI consistency. Since this idea was also introduced at the Symbian UI Brainstorm site, we contacted Symbian Foundation and started to discuss different contribution needs and priorities. These discussions led to the actual proposal that was published 16th of September.
Scott: How does this change affect lists when a keyboard is present, or on non-touch phones?
Ilkka: One of the goals and requirements regarding this change was not to break any 3rd party applications developed for Symbian platform. The proposed change affects only the platform application layer and only the touch functionality. Therefore the non-touch device functionality, like highlighting and selecting items in a list, remains as it is currently.
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Further information can be had at the Symbian blog:
http://blog.symbian.org/2009/09/21/to-tap-or-to-tap-tap/
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