Re: Task-centric UI (was: Calligra Active's main screen)

2012-10-16 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 10 October 2012, Björn Balazs wrote: > Hi all, > > I just joined this ML after the kind invitation from > Thomas. As he mentioned I will not be very active on this > list - but I will try to follow anything that picks up > the topic of task centric design, which I think is an > extrem

Re: Task-centric UI (was: Calligra Active's main screen)

2012-10-10 Thread Björn Balazs
Hi all, I just joined this ML after the kind invitation from Thomas. As he mentioned I will not be very active on this list - but I will try to follow anything that picks up the topic of task centric design, which I think is an extremely interesting topic, esp. for Free Software. For those wh

Re: Calligra Active's main screen

2012-10-08 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
Hi! On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On 08.10.2012 05:01, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Seems like missed communication here, I was told that once Plasma Active's >> "Files" application is complete, documents would be launched from there >> and so >> Calligra A

Re: Task-centric UI (was: Calligra Active's main screen)

2012-10-08 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 08 October 2012, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > I've already thought about application integration as a future topic a bit. > What came to my mind was Björn Balasz' presentation at the KDE UX sprint > April 2011 about task-centered interfaces. The general idea current > application-centric des

Task-centric UI (was: Calligra Active's main screen)

2012-10-08 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 08.10.2012 11:23, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Monday, October 8, 2012 11:07:12 Marco Martin wrote: I think that is mostly a design problem, the two things are not really against each other, in the end apps should either reuse the file browser as a component (still figuring out how to do that) or

Re: Calligra Active's main screen

2012-10-08 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 08.10.2012 05:01, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: Hi, Seems like missed communication here, I was told that once Plasma Active's "Files" application is complete, documents would be launched from there and so Calligra Active won't be included in the launcher. Thats the primary reason we didn't work

Re: Calligra Active's main screen

2012-10-08 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, October 8, 2012 11:07:12 Marco Martin wrote: > I think that is mostly a design problem, the two things are not really > against each other, in the end apps should either reuse the file browser as > a component (still figuring out how to do that) or be able to provide > custom components

Re: Calligra Active's main screen

2012-10-08 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 08 October 2012, Inge Wallin wrote: > This is the second time I read this. To be honest, I haven't checked the > looks of it since my Linux has too old libraries to compile Calligra Active > so I can't check how bad it is. > > But I'm sure that Shantanu and Sujith would love to have so

Re: Calligra Active's main screen

2012-10-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, October 8, 2012 08:31:23 Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > Seems like missed communication here, I was told that once Plasma Active's > "Files" application is complete, documents would be launched from there and > so Calligra Active won't be included in the launcher. of course, once there is

Re: Calligra Active's main screen

2012-10-07 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
Hi, Seems like missed communication here, I was told that once Plasma Active's "Files" application is complete, documents would be launched from there and so Calligra Active won't be included in the launcher. Thats the primary reason we didn't work on the home screen. Yes right now it does show th

Calligra Active's main screen

2012-10-07 Thread Inge Wallin
On Tuesday, October 02, 2012 12:52:03 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On 02.10.2012 12:19, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > i think the Document Viewer is Calligra, actually .. Okular is our eBook > > reader. but yes, i'd prefer to keep those names out of the marketing and > > application listings for a variety