A Monday 25 August 2008 02:22:23, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > hi all.. > > some of us huddled together at Akademy on the last day and discussed what > we'd like to do for things like the Nokia N Series and EEE PC computers, or > as they are more generally known "mobile internet devices" or MIDs. > > in the meeting we came up with a few action items: > > 0. create a plasma shell for MIDs > 1. create a specialized containment > 2. create a full screen app launcher > 3. create a control bar applet that could replace window title bars > 4. create an expanding/collapsing area for notifications and tray icons, > aka "systray" > 5. create artwork for all this specific to the devices > 6. research! > > here's some more detail on each: > > Shell > === > you may have noticed that there is now a kdebase/workspace/plasma/shells > directory; in there we now have 4 directories containing 4 different kinds > of shells: desktop, screensaver, plasmoidviewer and mid. > > plasma-mid is essentially a stripped down version of desktop: it only has > one view, the view (MidView) is very simple, the corona (MidCorona) has the > start of a custom loadCustomLayout with a single containment .. and that's > about it. > > it supports command line options for desktop, width and height which means > you can work on it initially without a scratchbox or other similar set up. > > App Launcher > ========= > the app launcher needs to be full screen (modulo the control bar). for a > first draft we're going to try a layout with a category listing down the > left and nice large fingerable buttons representing launchable actions on > the right. simple, effective, beautiful. that's the goal anyways =) > > Control Bar > ======= > this will contain a title for the current application and buttons for home, > put away and quit. it will also contain on the right hand side the MID > system tray, which actually won't really be a system tray as much as a > place for really small applets (battery, network status, etc). > > Ivan has worked on a similar concept for a project he is working on; it is > in playground/plasma/applets/embedded-ivan/titlebar/ .. we should look into > Ivan's work here. > > Systray > ===== > we should be able to simply re-use the existing systray+notifier plasmoid > for this! it will need some additional work, such as implementing a new > icon type that is really just a wrapper for a plasmoid and implementing > expand/collapse to show/hide icons. this will have use on the desktop as > well, so it's time well spent > > Artwork > ===== > as this all comes together, we're going to want some new artwork. my > thoughts are that we should have artwork that: > > * is pre-sized to the device screen (no scaling of the wallpaper should be > necessary for instance) > * harmonizes with the hardware itself, so it looks like it all belongs > together > > obviously, this part is device specific. i'd like to start by targetting > the N810 so we have a first example of what can be done. > > Research
Yes I have been playing around with ideas for it and the sorts, one thing that i would like to get your opinon would be mouse gestures... like control plamoisd that pop up wen your mouse (phinger describe a certain movment) so we could control stuf like zoom and rotate in a more continuous/phinguer friendly way... > ====== > some research topics will include: > > * will a KPixmapCache for Plasma::Theme help start up times? > * how to integrate with special buttons on these devices? > * how to do configuration and applet addition? > * how to most effectively present a widget dashboard area? > > > thoughts, ideas, scary warnings, complaints, etc? -- core oxygen icon designer _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
