On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 16:46, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote: > given that someone doesn't find some revolutionary way to launch aplications > (or call them tasks or activities or whatever) better than an icon grid... > > Cheers, > Marco Martin
Hi Marco, hihi, I guess that was what I was aiming for. :-) I never understood why plasma-mid wants to cater to, well, MIDs, as well as netbooks. The later seem to me to be just a very clever rendition of our regular computers along with a certain set of limitations (and will be operated as such). More like cheap regular notebooks are somehow limited compared to expensive regular notebooks, but both are operated the same way. MIDs seem to be different beasts altogether. What I had in mind was to in fact get rid of applications completely (as user interface primitives, that is). I imagined perhaps a temporal user interface or a spacial user interface or a social user interface. A spacial UI could be (I know it souds scary :-) Marble with a clever selection of information layers. We haven't talked about use cases enough, so I'm not sure I even make sense to most of you. But that can hopefully be remedied. The social UI could be just a large canvas with heads of my contacts on it; pictures of their heads, that is. When I tap them, I can start communicating with them, or see recent conversations, files we shared, events we went to together. Say someone shared a PDF document with me, when I tap it, it will surely be opened in Okular, but no one needs to know about that. Applications will be important as always, just not as user interface primitives. If that sounds like it could indeed be better than an icon grid, we should pursue this further, perhaps by agreeing on some use cases first that are important to us. And also keep coordinating with our soc students. What do you think? Or do you need shiny mockups first? :-) michael _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel