On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:55 PM, <daithe...@free.fr> wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm new here, so please be indulgent :)
So am I :-) > > > ----- "Marco Martin" <notm...@gmail.com> a écrit : > >> On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: >> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: >> > >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: >> > >> >> Hey everybody, >> > >> >> >> > >> >> I think it will be really difficult to have the UI scale from >> 50" >> > >> >> screens right down to 5" screens. At the moment we use a top >> panel >> > >> >> for playback control (and mode switching) and will use a >> bottom >> > >> >> panel for >> > >> > >> > >> > i don't think the mode switching should ultimately be there, >> the modes >> > >> > should be shown as mammoth icons in a main menu in the browser >> itself, >> > >> > that would be a kind of "root folder" for it. >> > >> >> > >> From the wiki: >> > >> On PMC startup the user will see a beautiful home applet that has >> (PMC >> > >> is meant to be fullscreen): >> > >> >> > >> * Buttons to switch to the following media modes: Pictures, >> Music, >> > >> Videos (later: Games, maybe an all Media Mode) >> > >> * Area with information about your recently played media, >> highest >> > >> ratings, things that allow you to jumpstart to a specific media. >> > >> * Possibility to add normal plasmoids, like note apps, web >> slice,... >> > > >> > > do you plan to make that home applet the top bar? >> > >> > No, the home applet should be the first thing that the user sees. >> Upon >> > entering a mode, the top and bottom bars appear >> > >> > >> > is not fullscreen enough, >> > >> > > and put all the possible mode here will quickly run out of space >> an be >> > > cluttered, in the bar there should be a single button, triggered >> also >> > > from a single real key (could be esc or home, or whatever in >> keyboards, >> > > the more adapt case by case on remotes) >> > > that "home applet" if you want it really isolated could be a >> different >> > > containment, so would be a totally standaloe fullscreen thing, but >> i >> > > don't think i like it. >> > >> > I more thought of it as an additional applet. On switching to home >> > mode, everything hides and the home applet appears >> > >> > > i really do think it should be right into the browser, the >> "modes" >> > > together eventual plugins to do other stuff should be right into >> the >> > > browser as items, so they can be as big as possible taking the >> whole >> > > screen or scale decently if some day there will be many of them. >> > >> > the general PMC home applet does not have a browser. each mode has >> its >> > own specific home applet which actually is a browser which shows >> media >> > specific dataengines. This one will have big icons >> >> i fear this is just useless code duplication, really. >> for this fullscreen menu you need exactly the same functionality of >> the >> browser. > > I might misunderstood the aim of the "browser", but I don't think this will > be code duplication : you don't browse Music the same way you browse Movies > or TV Shows, do you ? Well in this case we have a browser with different possibilites of how to sho you the data. O focurse showing picrture data might be different then showing Music data by artist. It's all about what your want your data to look like (model/view chapter in Qt book helped me a lot to understand it) > > Cheers, > > -- > François > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel