On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Sebastian Kügler <se...@kde.org> wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 2010 16:59:54 Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: >> Whoa, just been off for few hours and so much discussion! Too bad >> I arrived late :P >> >> Christohpe, as Marco said, we will be having the Browser display the >> list of plugins (and hence modes) anyway, so we can maximize it to the >> whole screen and kind of use it as the Home applet. But yes, if you've >> some more things that can be there in the Home applet, please share >> the ideas. >> >> Sebas, I don't get how we should target mainly TVs instead of >> notebooks? TVs will be just an output device as far as I know (unless >> there is a TV which runs KDE SC) so the actual stuff (application) >> will anyway be running on a notebook/netbook/PC. If I'm not >> understanding what you meant, it'd be nice if you can explain a bit :) > > The thing can run on a conventional notebook, or netbook, or whatever > hardware you > want it to, the important things when using a TV as output device are: > > - input: mice don't work so well, pointer-based devices in general have > problems > (hard to point at exactly the right thing) > - UI element sizes: a laptop screen allows for much more fidelity than a TV > screen, > you can simply fit more elements on a screen you're looking at closely (it's > also > related to input size)
Noted :) > > Now it might turn out that buttons on an N900 screen can have just the same > size in > pixels as on a fullHD TV screen, but it's not a given so we need rather large > elements as well. Ow, and people might not have a keyboard connected or easily > reachable. Yes, so we'll try to keep the number of different input combinations (which translate to keys for a keyboard, arrow buttons for a remote control). As far as the Wiimote is considered, I think Alessandro has one and can give it a shot. > -- > sebas > > http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > -- Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel