Hi, 2009/3/28 Emmanuel Lepage-Vallée <elv1...@gmail.com>: > The user just ended a meeting in a foreign city. He take his nokia n810 out > of his pocket. The device is in sleep mode. He open it. Now, he -want- to > know the weather. He access it very easily and see that there is a snow > storm coming. He now device to check for a near hotel to stay for the night. > He found one in no time and now -decide- to check for a near restoration to > eat before going to the hotel. All these thing are done in about 2 minute > while he is standing in front of the meeting building.
The main problem I see with the "tab bar" approach is that for devices as small as n8x0 you don't have enough screen space to put that much of information there. That was the main UI error with Maemo until Diablo release. Putting that much of information on the screen makes it difficult to read the information and use it with the fingers, and users _really_ hate using the stylus. That's why I think that the tab bar concept is really useful for bigger devices like a netbook but will suffer on smaller devices like Nokia's Internet Tablet. I say that because it has been my work on the last 3 years and I heard a lot of complains from users ;). It would be good if our (kde) usability/designer experts could help a little bit on this. As I told you, some people from my company did user research but aiming something like a netbook, so we still have no good solution for the internet tablets.. =( From the implementation point of view, I really hope that the current activity bar will be the base for this "tab bar" and also that the work done by Marco on playground will help.... I'm still looking forward Michael's and other's user cases on the wiki so we can elaborate a little bit more on the concept itself... Cheers! -- ------------------------------------------------------- Artur Duque de Souza OpenBossa Research Labs INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia ------------------------------------------------------- Blog: http://labs.morpheuz.eng.br/blog/ PGP: 0xDBEEAAC3 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
