* Duncan McGreggor <[email protected]> [2010-08-16 15:27:59]:
> On 08/16/2010 02:16 PM, Mathieu Virbel wrote: > >Hello everyone, > > > >I've been talking to Dunkan, and he ask me to write my concerns/wishes > >for future development and user interaction. So here we are. > > > >I don't known exactly how canonical see the future of Maverick, but if > >we want ubuntu usable for Tablet, lot of things must be done :) > > > >- Unity: under development ? what are the plan on that ? What feedback > > did you planned ? > > > >- Florence: i've read that florence is going to be the default keyboard > > for ubuntu. Am i wrong ? If yes, florence is really not usable. > > Really. Once good thing we must learn coming from our beloved Apple.. > > When you open the keyboard, the application window is adjusted to not > > hide the focused text input. Maybe an integration between unity / > > florence is required here. > > > >- Florence: prediction. Boulabiar said that they are lot of patent on > > that, but still, be productive = introduce algorithm to enhance people > > writing. In PyMT, we've got spelling keyboard... and it's not > > sufficient. Library like enchant (mean aspell/ispell) is doing > > auto-correction and suggestion, but don't care about the context. And > > that's make thing just unusable. > > > >- Theming: having a touch-usable GTK theme is required. I don't remember > > where i got the microsoft document about UI, but they are designing UI > > like a button require 10mm height, spacing between elements should be > > 7mm.. Whatever is the screen size. Your finger are not smaller if you > > increase your resolution :) > > > >- GTK: patch to add some new behavior ? Like list, it would be nice to > > remove that ugly scrollbar, and permit scroll just by touching. > > > >- Firefox plugin: ubuntu have already a plugin installed by default for > > firefox. Is it possible to enhance it ? Like adding scrolling with > > touch by default, better theming for tabs (specially the cross button > > to close a tab..) > > > >- All app: even if GTK is not ready for MT, it should be ok to do > > alternative UI for touch no ? One thing we've learn with PyMT is that > > classical UI is really not good for touch (for eg: Rhythmbox can b > > enhanced to add plugin for custom touch UI) > > > >It's just some ideas. Feel free to comment ! > > > >-- > >Mathieu > >http://pymt.eu/ > >http://movid.org/ > > Thanks, Mathieu! > > I will be updating our UDS-N brainstorming plans with these notes. > > As for the MS document, perhaps John Lea can provide us with a link; > I believe he mentioned that paper to me last week at our MT sprint. > > Thanks again, > > d All the links are at the end of this blog post : http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1071 Mathieu _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
