With recent discussions about running Haiku on phones starting up again, I’d like to bring up this recent blog post on text editing UX:
https://jenson.org/text/
It’s a rather small yet fundamental aspect of mobile UX that has gone mostly neglected. It also shows how current mobile interfaces are still to some degree locked into decisions made years ago, rendering them somewhat inflexible to positive UI changes befitting the form factor. Perhaps this is something that we can do, experiment with mobile UX to an extent not afforded to larger mobile UIs. Currently re-evaluating previous designs here, see which aspects to reuse and discard.
After all, Haiku’s GUI was designed explicitly for the desktop form factor. If there is to be a mobile variant of Haiku or a mobile fork, it would only be appropriate that its interface was also specifically designed with its target form factor in mind. Except for when an external display is plugged in; the current Haiku UI is perfectly fine for that usecase.