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 non-existent in a few applications or situations. 
Status pane contains the following sub-panes: 
Title pane · 
· 
· 
· 
· 
Context pane 
Navi pane 
Signal pane 
Battery pane / Universal indicator pane 
Signal
pane
Batteery  pane 
(Universal 
indicator pane) 
Context
pane 
Title pane 
Navi pane 
 
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 3-3.  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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