Hi, because some people on plasma-devel@ might not know me yet: I'm a member of the kdegames team, and am posting to plasma-devel@ for the first time because my work may have to do with what you folks are doing. (This implies that I'm not subscribed her, so please CC me or kde-games-devel@ in answers.)
The reason why I'm writing this is because I started work on libkgame, a collection of libraries which shall, at some point, supersede libkdegames which is currently used by most games in the kdegames module. In the beginnings of the design process, I've identified as a main weakness of our applications the fact that they are designed for mouse and keyboard interaction and for desktop form factors. They do not scale to the mobile form-factors which are becoming increasingly important in casual gaming. Most of our games are QGraphicsView-based, and I know that the Plasma community is the home of some of the greatest QGraphicsView experts on our lovely planet. Plus, many of you have experience in interface design on constrained devices. I would like to invite you to thinking about, discussing and designing a general set of interface components for games which can be used on mobile devices instead of the usual WIMP controls. The ultimate goal is a UI system which allows the game developer to develop in one working step an interface that works both on the desktop and on mobile devices. Think XMLGUI on steroids. This effort should also cover input methods, in order to make it dead-easy to integrate multitouch support in existing applications. Of course, this need not be limited to games, but could be generalized to arbitrary applications. I doubt, however, that this is possible because games with their full-screen application-styled canvases have their own distinct requirements. Not only am I interested in your thoughts on how such interfaces (or library classes) might look like, I'd also like to know whether there are existing components which might be reused. From what I know about Plasma (and that's admittedly not as much as I would like), Plasma is too high-level for what I need. It's not about creating applets for different services, but about arranging buttons and score displays. But please, correct me if I'm wrong. Greetings Stefan _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
