[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Exitao:
Jim:

I'm using build 804 now and have just a few new notes or re-thoughts regarding some of the stuff I may have mentioned before.

I hope you don't think me a pest, but this only because yours is the single-most used non-productivity/PIM app or non-system utility on my phone and I would like to see it get to the point where you can either sell it or receive the type of donations for it it deserves.

These aren't complaints or grievances. Freda's great, and I want it to be the greatest.

Regarding

Long Tap

:

I don't know if it's an easier solution to altering the duration of the long tap, but maybe just changing the user-definable "tap at edge" area to only use input to perform the selected function.

e.g. when set to "change page," any tap of any duration only changes the page.

(I still think that a longer delay or some way to better judge what a "long tap" is would be useful, but that's just me with my clumsy fingers, no one else seems to have taken up issue with it.)

New Suggestions

:

Shortcuts: I think adding the shortcuts as a choice in the drop down lists in the Controls section of Application Settings would be a spiffy idea.

Or conceivably adding a gesture to summon the shortcut... thingie.

Screen Rotation: Is it possible to add in a setting to either enable/disable screen rotation by accelerometer? This would prevent grey screens occasioned by jostling/bumping the device causing it to re-paginate on unintended rotation.

Perhaps, you could add a screen orientation button to the Shortcuts and in the sub-menu for Display.

And add a choice of 90deg right or left rotation to the Application Settings, Controls menus.

Title & Status Bars: Just a random thought that's probably more work than it's worth, but... Is there any way to allow customisation of the view to give choice of full screen, windowed screen and "partially windowed" screen?

By "partially windowed" I mean to hide the top Title/Windows bar and keep the lower bar? For those without buttons, it could give us something like softkeys and/or let us keep an eye on page number/progress.

Volume Keys: I found this out by accident when I had to reference a PRC file, but apparently my old reader can change pages with use of the volume keys, but only in full screen.

For no-button and no-touch phones, it's an interesting possibility.

(If I had known about that in the old app, and if that app had a user definable "tap at edge" that didn't change margin size, I might never have become a happy Freda user.)

Issues

:

Only half of a previous issue. Before Freda didn't like to minimise from full screen and used to ghost in the title/status bar.

Even now, Freda, when at full screen, does not like to minimise. Like every pretty girl I ever dated, when she's the centre of attention, she's stubborn and won't be rushed or pushed around.

I don't have a clue why it happens (except maybe she has a higher priority at full screen than the OS or the part of the OS dedicated to managing open apps, which is consequently slow to take focus?), or how you can fix that (no clue at all).

Anyway, just spitballing. Likely your final release has handled most of these things anyway...

Cheers!

eX