1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

     2 <!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->

     3 <!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License 

     4 "Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 

     5 and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->

     6 <!-- Initial Contributors:

     7     Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.

     8 Contributors: 

     9 -->

    10 <!DOCTYPE concept

    11   PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">

    12 <concept id="GUID-86AADA3E-B77C-45CC-B523-785B75BAA5AA" xml:lang="en"><title>Menu</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

    13 <p>Mobile device users can use the Menu to access applications. Pressing the

    14 Home / Menu key opens the Menu, where the user may browse and select an application.

    15 The Menu was previously called <i>Application Shell</i> and the Home / Menu

    16 key was called <i>Applications key</i>. In addition to direct access to applications,

    17 related applications can be collected in folders.</p>

    18 <p>Applications are presented as a grid of items by default. User can select

    19 a customized version of the Menu layout, such as a list. The recommended grid

    20 layout is 3 x 4 (portrait) or 4 x 3 (landscape), that is 12 icons. Pressing

    21 the Selection key opens an application and closes the Menu.</p>

    22 <fig id="GUID-80CBAFCA-F952-4C96-8738-02D82261F4B4">

    23 <title>Menu with a 3 x 4 grid in portrait (left) and 4 x 3 grid in landscape

    24 (right)</title>

    25 <image href="GUID-A69D2707-CB47-42C2-A6E9-5FB9BD86A30B_d0e64364_href.png" placement="inline"/>

    26 </fig>

    27 <p>For more details on the landscape orientation, see <xref href="GUID-685C3F33-1530-4984-B125-E4EF8EBB2EE8.dita">Symbian

    28 UI with rotation</xref>.</p>

    29 <section id="GUID-D50A0D9B-B093-4529-971A-7239FFBA0880"><title>Shortcuts</title>When

    30 the Menu is opened, numeric keys 1-9 can be used as shortcuts to select an

    31 application. The keys are mapped directly to the nine icons in Menu’s initial

    32 view, so that the Numeric key 1 corresponds to the top-left application and

    33 the Numeric key 9 to the bottom-right one.</section>

    34 <section id="GUID-84905F51-FD23-48EB-9C36-2022DB91DDF5"><title>Customizing

    35 Menu</title><p>The user can organize the order of applications, create folders

    36 and move applications into folders within the Menu. The folders created in

    37 a Menu are customizable (the user can add and remove folders) and can have

    38 unlimited sub-folders to allow a hierarchically organized structures. The

    39 customizing functions are available in the <b>Options</b> menu.

    40 In addition, the layout of the Menu can also be customized.</p></section>

    41 </conbody></concept>