On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 21:35, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 09 January 2009, Michael Rudolph wrote: >> 2009/1/7 Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org>: >> >> aaand the big thing of course: >> >> plasma-mid: this one as far i understood doesn't depend totally from us, >> >> but any development on that? >> > >> > yes, that's another area for R&D =) >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'm not sure spying on the competition counts as R&D :-), but those >> who haven't seen it already, might want to take a look at Palm's new >> Pre. >> >> I've only seen a rather bad video on gizmodo of the official unveiling >> of the device, but from what I could understand, they had some very >> interesting ideas for how such a device should work for (or with) the >> user. Perhaps some of those ideas also shine through in the actual >> implementation, for us to be inspired by :-) >> > as far i understood main thing it has it's like a cool alt+tab effect, so it > would be needed like desktop effects on the device... > or if all aplications in the devices are just plasmoids it could be done just > by a zoom out effect.. > so there's a question: make an interface that conceive just plasmoids as its > applications or support also regular good pld windows? think the latter woud b > better even if plasmoids should be preferred, more addapt to the small frm > factor.. > > Cheers, > Marco Martin
Hi Marco, I just quickly wrote that email, remembering only vaguely that I thought some things in the presentation might have seemed to be interesting. Bad manners. But now I watched it again and took real notes. (http://i.gizmodo.com/5126752/palm-pre-full-video-tours) The occasions that made me hop on my chair in chronological order :-) - part of the ui melds away The status bar, showing signal strength or a clock, is colored to make it look as if it were part of the hardware. I like the idea of interfaces, that are not "in your face". KDE has traditionally been extremely bad at that, and although it seems the days of the beveled bevels in KDE are over, "interfaces, that meld away" are still a great design principle that we could adopt further. The reason is, it allows: - you (to) focus on your content He just mentioned that without showing any particular feature of the interface. Still a great design principle. Most interfaces are so "selfish" and demand lots of attention, so in the end users are more toying with the interface than working with their content. - you don't loose context He probably only mentioned that to showcase that the Pre allows background applications, which the iPhone does not. But thinking about a user's workflow in situations when more than one task demands his attention is surely worthwhile and something, that we need to do as well. - organized as activities haha, now who copies from whom? :-) - all changes are saved automatically Ingenious. But actually a shame that this needs to be mentioned as a feature. This should really be default. Everywhere. - switch between types of communication It seems that whenever you see a person as sender or recipient in one of your conversations you get a little combobox allowing you to choose different communications channels on the fly. Switch from texting to email or from email to IM. This is fantastic because it shows a understanding of what the user is actually trying to do. Users want to communicate, they want to stay in touch with each other; the fact that they are using email or IM is (mostly) just an implementation detail. That's basically what struck me as clever thinking about the topic of mobile user experience on the part of Palm. Of course it remains to be seen, how well they could implement their clever thoughts. Regarding your question about applications versus plasmoids, I'll think about it some more. When I have something clever to say (probably even earlier :-), I'll come back to you. michael _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
