dialing from contacts needs to be possible without stylus

[pavel@…]

Currently, contacts are impossible to control without stylus. That's bad, almost
all calls happen from contacts. It should be possible to at least select a
contact and call it using fingers, only.

[thomas@…]

In the design (​http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Contacts), contacts is a purely
stylus application. However, the design currently doesn't actually specify how
to make calls from the contacts list, although the design for the phone number
fields specifies a popup menu with a dial option:
​http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Phone_Number_Field.

[elrond+bugzilla.openmoko.org@…]

Well, this could also be a dedicated new Design (even App).

Just showing the contacts and a few options what to do.
The font should be large enough to make it easy to read the names while running
down the stairs to catch your train. ;)

So this probably should be some sort of finger application.

Personal note: I find the finger wheel not too useful. So for paging through the
contacts-finger-app, I'd appreciate some dedicated big "page down" and "page up"
buttons or the like.

[thomas@…]

I absolutely agree and I will see if I can bring this up with the core team
again. Last time it was discussed there was a sense that because we were
targeting OpenMoko? as a platform rather than a phone, the contacts application
(and others) should be stylus based. However, I wonder if there is also room for
simplified finger versions of all the core applications as well, which would be
used in just the sort of situation you describe.

[stefan@…]

This is possible in OM2007.2