On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > >> >> Hey everybody, > >> >> > >> >> I think it will be really difficult to have the UI scale from 50" > >> >> screens right down to 5" screens. At the moment we use a top panel > >> >> for playback control (and mode switching) and will use a bottom > >> >> panel for > >> > > >> > i don't think the mode switching should ultimately be there, the modes > >> > should be shown as mammoth icons in a main menu in the browser itself, > >> > that would be a kind of "root folder" for it. > >> > >> From the wiki: > >> On PMC startup the user will see a beautiful home applet that has (PMC > >> is meant to be fullscreen): > >> > >> * Buttons to switch to the following media modes: Pictures, Music, > >> Videos (later: Games, maybe an all Media Mode) > >> * Area with information about your recently played media, highest > >> ratings, things that allow you to jumpstart to a specific media. > >> * Possibility to add normal plasmoids, like note apps, web slice,... > > > > do you plan to make that home applet the top bar? > > No, the home applet should be the first thing that the user sees. Upon > entering a mode, the top and bottom bars appear > > > is not fullscreen enough, > > > and put all the possible mode here will quickly run out of space an be > > cluttered, in the bar there should be a single button, triggered also > > from a single real key (could be esc or home, or whatever in keyboards, > > the more adapt case by case on remotes) > > that "home applet" if you want it really isolated could be a different > > containment, so would be a totally standaloe fullscreen thing, but i > > don't think i like it. > > I more thought of it as an additional applet. On switching to home > mode, everything hides and the home applet appears > > > i really do think it should be right into the browser, the "modes" > > together eventual plugins to do other stuff should be right into the > > browser as items, so they can be as big as possible taking the whole > > screen or scale decently if some day there will be many of them. > > the general PMC home applet does not have a browser. each mode has its > own specific home applet which actually is a browser which shows media > specific dataengines. This one will have big icons
i fear this is just useless code duplication, really. for this fullscreen menu you need exactly the same functionality of the browser. Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
