On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeif...@kde.org> wrote:
> Dear Subsurface (mobile) team, > about two weeks ago, Marco came to the VDG (KDE's design group) asking for > a > new name for Plasma Mobile Components. > The reasoning behind this request was that with them becoming their own KDE > framework and Subsurface mobile showing that they work very well outside of > Plasma Mobile, too, we don't want people to associate them strongly with > Plasma Mobile. > > With that request, we started brainstorming. What we wanted the name to > express was > - Physicality (because it does have some similarities to Material Design, > while still being quite different in some areas) > - A tool for expressing your creativity in UI design > - Moving layers of things (because of the central role of drawers) > > We had ideas like "slide", "paper" or "blocks" flying around, but then Alex > Longo (who is behind many of the design ideas in the components) came up > with > Origami, which in turn led him to "Kirigami". > For those of you who (like the rest of the brainstorming team) don't know > what > Kirigami is: It's a technique similar to Origami, which adds cutting to > folding. > > It is physical, it is creative, kinda playful without being childish, and > it's > far less common than Origami, which helps with searchability. > > Like Material Design, Kirigami would be more than just a set of UI > components, > it comes with its own design philosophy documented in the accompanying > Human > Interface Guidelines. > > Since you are our first users outside of KDE, we'd like to inform you > about the > proposed name before we make it public. > > So if you see any significant problem with this name (any negative > associations, any other framework with the same name that we are not aware > of), now is the time to speak up! > > Cheers, > Thomas > Actually I'm quite good with kirigami and origami :D _______________________________________________ > subsurface mailing list > subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org > http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface >
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