Well, Aaron was fast than me for some answers :P On Monday 23 November 2009, 14:48 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > it's close, but there will be things in it that just don't fit very well. > fortunately, plasma encourages a highly modular design and so parts that do > make sense can be shared between plasma-netbook and plasma-mobile without > much effort at all.
As aseigo said, it's close but at least my experience show that software designed for one hardware usually should not be on a different hardware :). That's why we have libplasma: to make it easy to write custom plasma "shells". I really don't see the netbook shell "as is" on a phone. Some things will probably be used like some of it's concepts, some implementation (as Marco already pointed out) and other things, but we really need something for phones. > yes; it could also be something more custom-fitted to a small screen, > particularly when it comes to application transitions. see, for instance, > what the palm pre or even the iphone does in this area. Yes, and also really finger friendly. > i really think, given the size of the device, that an emphasis on full > screen apps and switching easily between them with nice visual effects > would be good. +1. > when it comes to the n900 itself, they use an expose-like effect which > would mean a different Plasma::View for each widget on the canvas. this is > actually not uncommon (it's how popup applets work in the icon-and-dialog > state, e.g. when in a panel in plasma-desktop). I'm still unsure about this. Talking about the n900 we have a lot of applications out there and probably we would need kwin to do this job. I think that when we solve the problem of virtual desktops vs activities for the desktop we might end up with a really nice idea for phones ;) > i also wonder how much of the "this is a phone, let's make a phone call" > interface could be put behind/inside a DataEngine/Service pair. Yeah, I've wondering if the phone dialer would be something "desktop-shell" related or yet another application....but the aspect of being a dataengine/service makes me think about being a plasmoid too :) I liked this idea :D > if you ask questions, we can provide answers :) Exactly. There is even a list maemo related for kde developers. Join that and share your ideas with us so we don't duplicate effort on this ;) Cheers! -------------------------------------------------------------- Artur Duque de Souza openBossa INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia -------------------------------------------------------------- Blog: http://blog.morpheuz.cc PGP: 0xDBEEAAC3 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net --------------------------------------------------------------
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