On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 08:01:01 Martin Graesslin wrote: > On Monday, February 15, 2016 10:22:20 PM CET Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Monday, February 15, 2016 15:11:47 Martin Graesslin wrote: > > ... > > > > > Maybe you could start thinking about that. What does it mean if THE GUI > > > maintainer doesn't want that? Maybe he has a better look on it with THE > > > GUI > > > knowledge? > > > > > > Please don't completely dismiss my feedback. Think about it. > > > > Yes, but I have really a hard time understanding it. I'm actually assuming > > there must be some misunderstanding, different bias or interpretation... > > > > If the future interfaces won't be graphical, what other options do you see > > ? > I'm not a prophet, I have no clue what will be after graphical interfaces.
Hopefully not direct brain interfaces ;-) > But some things we already see today emerging: speech for starters. Another > example are all this Virtual Reality stuff which is not graphical in the > sense of a GUI. Our phones notifies through vibration. We have smart > watches interacting through sensors with the body. All without a GUI. Thanks. I think then we indeed have just different interpretations. Sensors and speech input are to me "just" input devices, like keyboard, mouse, touchpad/screen, trackpoint, joystick, etc. Using them is IMO fully included in the term "GUI". For the output: VR - I agree that "GUI" is typically not used for this. Still, "graphical (user) interfaces", can be interpreted to include it. Speech output - it sure is (very) useful, but I am sure some graphical presentation will stay, and I think the vision should just emphasize the main points (I still think speech output won't become the main user interface for software in general). Vibration alarm - I'd count that under additional peripheral. So, the intention of "graphical user interfaces and applications" is: - we do applications - we do "user interfaces", i.e. desktop for normal computers and also e.g. Plasma Mobile. Do you have a better term ? - "graphical" is there to point out that they typically have a graphical interface, they draw stuff somewhere - point out that our *main* goal is not CLI (- and of course everything supporting it/related to it) Alex _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community