On Monday 08 October 2012, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > I've already thought about application integration as a future topic a bit. > What came to my mind was Björn Balasz' presentation at the KDE UX sprint > April 2011 about task-centered interfaces. The general idea current > application-centric desktop shells are not really compatible with users' > mental models. A user doesn't think "I want to start Kmail touch", but > instead "I want to write an email to Grandma". However currently she first > has to think "Okay, what application do I have to start to write an > email?".
this is not a new idea at all, i think it was kindof tried in the past with various degrees of success, at least in the old old days with document oriented uis (kindof a subset of task oriented, not enough anymore) as back in the days as apple lisa, early next, beos. one thing that always killed it is a "branding" issue, is very difficult to make this work well with 3rd party developers. The iphone-esque "apps" approach presents really the path of minimum resistance for 3rd parties, little difficulties and a lot of freedom for developers (weird to hear about freedom on the iphone, but being an app a little universe on its own, in this case applies) But is the best way for users? not so sure we should learn from the past mistakes, and *maybe* we can pull it off, since we are in a considerably legacy free environment. We are also free to try this because since we really can't win the "Apps" game, we can try to just play a different game ;) (i would love the desktop going in this direction as well, but this is another, long, complex story :p) Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active