Applications can also use the main pane area to freely draw whatever is needed. In that case, however, the responsibility of the look and feel is entirely on the application's designer. General guidelines for designing application specific main pane layouts can be found elsewhere in this document.
Status pane
Status pane displays status information of the current application and state as well as general information about the device status – for example the signal strength and battery charging. It occupies the top part of the screen.
Status pane may be
Status pane contains the following
Title pane
Context pane
Navi pane
Signal pane
Battery pane / Universal indicator pane
Title pane
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Figure 3-2. Status pane areas.
See the following sections for detailed descriptions about each of these.
Title pane
Title pane displays a context - dependent application title or state name.
Figure | Title pane |
Typically, the title text is the descriptive name of the current main pane view.
In application idle, the title text is typically the application's name.
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