Hi David, Thanks very much for your thoughtful email.
>-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >Of David Woolbright >Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 6:42 PM >To: Moblin >Subject: [Moblin Dev] User experience strategy > >Moblin dev team, > >I love your os. From a visual design point of view it puts jolicloud >and chromeos to shame. > >I'm new to the project so if I get my facts wrong please forgive me. >The one weakness I see with the project is level of difficulty in >developing new applications. > >Chrome os is used to access new and existing web applications. They >demoed running the web versions of ms office and running gmail and >google apps. Anything that'll run on the web will run on chrome os. Well, that's just as true for us as it is them, to a certain extent. We'd certainly like to consider that we promote a 'web centric experience'. >Jolicloud takes a slightly different approach. You can add web >applications to the desktop from their app library. This uses Mozilla >prisim to wrap the site so it behaves like an app. They also support >the adobe air runtime so you can run any air app. Yes, we don't support AIR out of the box (as it's somewhat difficult to ship any closed source software from moblin.org) but we certainly care about it. We're certainly considering adding more 'prism-esque' features to the browser in future. >The problem I see with moblin is that if a developer wants to write an >app for the os, it has to be written in c. Not totally true, we run any code that linux runs but certainly, our stuff is written in C. You can certainly imagine the Clutter+Mutter+javascript stuff the GNOME Shell guys are working on slotting really nicely into our system though. >You've got a great product and a great looking product. I'd love to >see it become widely successful. What I think would help that would be >a user experience strategy that supports the ease of designing and >developing new applications. > >I've been a developer for about 15 years, have been working as a user >experience designer for the last 5 and have a foot in both worlds. >I've got some ideas for how to do this if anyone's interested. We're certainly interested in hearing about it. I'm especially interested in design ideas, being a designer who works on this sort of stuff. We do have a bunch of people who've been working on this recently and making stuff like this: http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-sdk/developing-moblin-2.1 I'm sure they'd be interested as well. >This is one of the most elegant operating systems I've seen and would >love to help out if possible. Help is most certainly welcome. Nick --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Corporation (UK) Limited Registered No. 1134945 (England) Registered Office: Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ VAT No: 860 2173 47 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
