Hello everyone!
I see that many are excited about the Honeycomb update and I just wanted to ask a couple questions now that I have it on my Flyer.
Disabling the hardware buttons and using software buttons seems like a poor choice to me; I don't see the point to it, in fact all I see are negatives. The new software buttons take up screen space which apparently cannot be gained back, they are always there making your viewable area smaller than it should be. This is incredibly important to me as even fullscreen applications no longer use that space.
It is effectively a resolution downgrade. Is there any way to fix this? Gingerbread had a similar strip that ran across the top of the screen but as you all know this hid itself away to allow full use of the screen. I simply cannot fathom why it would be made that these new buttons deliberately waste pixels?
I have read that during full-screen activities the buttons should vanish and I see that this is almost true, the buttons do go away. This is made completely and utterly pointless though by the fact that the strip where the buttons used to be DOES NOT go away, so the screen space is still not available for use. I have tested videos, image editing software, full-screen games etc, all things which used to run 100% fullscreen now do not. I am very disappointed at this reduced functionality that has been forced on me.
What do you think about this change? Do you like it and if so why? Perhaps I will become used to it but I will always be thinking that it is wasting real-estate simply by being there. Very inefficient. If anyone should have a solution then it goes without saying that I would be forever grateful.
Thank you very much for reading.
-Dr.D
I see that many are excited about the Honeycomb update and I just wanted to ask a couple questions now that I have it on my Flyer.
Disabling the hardware buttons and using software buttons seems like a poor choice to me; I don't see the point to it, in fact all I see are negatives. The new software buttons take up screen space which apparently cannot be gained back, they are always there making your viewable area smaller than it should be. This is incredibly important to me as even fullscreen applications no longer use that space.
It is effectively a resolution downgrade. Is there any way to fix this? Gingerbread had a similar strip that ran across the top of the screen but as you all know this hid itself away to allow full use of the screen. I simply cannot fathom why it would be made that these new buttons deliberately waste pixels?
I have read that during full-screen activities the buttons should vanish and I see that this is almost true, the buttons do go away. This is made completely and utterly pointless though by the fact that the strip where the buttons used to be DOES NOT go away, so the screen space is still not available for use. I have tested videos, image editing software, full-screen games etc, all things which used to run 100% fullscreen now do not. I am very disappointed at this reduced functionality that has been forced on me.
What do you think about this change? Do you like it and if so why? Perhaps I will become used to it but I will always be thinking that it is wasting real-estate simply by being there. Very inefficient. If anyone should have a solution then it goes without saying that I would be forever grateful.
Thank you very much for reading.
-Dr.D