Re: plasma-mid

2009-02-24 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Friday 20 February 2009 21:58:53 Marco Martin wrote: > > Ok, let this with me and darktears ;)...We really want this moving > > forward.. > > me will follow near, can't promise, but let's rock :) Yay! +1 :) -Riccardo -- GPG key: 3D0F6376 When encrypting, please encrypt also for this subkey: 9

Re: plasma-mid

2009-02-22 Thread Petri Damstén
On Saturday 21 February 2009 18:27:20 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Saturday 21 February 2009, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Saturday 21 February 2009, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > > I'm also interested in plasma-mid as an improved plasmoidviewer, but > > > maybe we can have Morpheuz' previewer for plasma

Re: plasma-mid

2009-02-21 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday 21 February 2009, Marco Martin wrote: > On Saturday 21 February 2009, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > I'm also interested in plasma-mid as an improved plasmoidviewer, but > > maybe we can have Morpheuz' previewer for plasmate as that? > > i'm really interested in that having a minimal plasm

Re: plasma-mid

2009-02-21 Thread Marco Martin
On Saturday 21 February 2009, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Friday 20 February 2009 18:36:33 Artur Souza(MoRpHeUz) wrote: > > On Friday 20 February 2009 13:45:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > what it needs is someone who feels responsible for it and gets upset > > > when it isn't moving in the right d

Re: plasma-mid

2009-02-21 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Friday 20 February 2009 18:36:33 Artur Souza(MoRpHeUz) wrote: > On Friday 20 February 2009 13:45:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > what it needs is someone who feels responsible for it and gets upset when > > it isn't moving in the right directions. it's less about "who will write > > code for it" an

Re: plasma-mid

2009-02-20 Thread Marco Martin
On Friday 20 February 2009, Artur Souza(MoRpHeUz) wrote: > On Friday 20 February 2009 13:45:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > what it needs is someone who feels responsible for it and gets upset when > > it isn't moving in the right directions. it's less about "who will write > > code for it" and more a

Re: plasma-mid

2009-02-20 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 20 February 2009, Artur Souza(MoRpHeUz) wrote: > On Friday 20 February 2009 13:45:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > what it needs is someone who feels responsible for it and gets upset when > > it isn't moving in the right directions. it's less about "who will write > > code for it" and more a

Re: plasma-mid

2009-02-20 Thread Artur Souza(MoRpHeUz)
On Friday 20 February 2009 13:45:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > what it needs is someone who feels responsible for it and gets upset when > it isn't moving in the right directions. it's less about "who will write > code for it" and more about "who will poke people with pointy sticks and > make sure the

Re: plasma-mid

2009-02-20 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 20 February 2009, Artur Souza(MoRpHeUz) wrote: > In worst scenario we can have some people taking care of plasma-mid (even > if it's not their _main_ baby). I mean, me + marco + sebas? + aaron + > whoever is interested would make it happen.slower than if someone had > it as a baby but

Re: plasma-mid

2009-02-20 Thread Nuno Pinheiro
A Friday 20 February 2009 11:52:28, Marco Martin escreveu: OK count me in aswell for low mantinership level, I have somthing already done for that and adpting some of the ideas from the educational thing might be good (the educational device im thinking on is the the classmate 2 that is also to

Re: plasma-mid

2009-02-20 Thread Marco Martin
On Friday 20 February 2009, Alexis Ménard wrote: > From my side i will be ok to work on it but as i said to Morpheuz i will > need help because i am pretty busy. > > So i need help for the artwork and for patches if they come. i think perhaps if there are are some people that can give evenjust few

Re: plasma-mid

2009-02-20 Thread Alexis Ménard
>From my side i will be ok to work on it but as i said to Morpheuz i will need help because i am pretty busy. So i need help for the artwork and for patches if they come. Having plasma-mid, i can see two benefits,having a real alternative to the GTK stuff on Maemo...I want to get rid of... I thin

Re: plasma-mid

2009-02-20 Thread Artur Souza(MoRpHeUz)
hi! On Friday 20 February 2009 00:53:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > but we ought to turn some guns on plasma-mid as well, but only if we have > them to spare. > > realistically, i'm already maxed out and can't give it the care, attention > and love it will take to make plasma-mid all that it should be

Re: plasma-mid

2009-02-20 Thread Marco Martin
On Friday 20 February 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > hi all ... > > there was some discussion on #plasma today about plasma-mid. the short > story is that we got all excited about it at the last akademy and then > subsequently got sidetracked from it when we all focused on making the > traditional d

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-26 Thread Chani
On 8/26/08, Matthias Welwarsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday, 26. August 2008, Chani wrote: > > > On 8/25/08, Benjamin Kleiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am Montag 25. August 2008 21:54:53 schrieb Matthias Welwarsky: > > > > Am Montag 25 August 2008 17:50 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: >

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-26 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 12:39:26 Marco Martin wrote: > maybe keeping pressed for more than x time like the fake right mouse menu > in some places of maemo? > would only be needed that the menu has items big enough > (there is even already a plasma patch by Marijn that does that) > > Cheers, > Nar

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-26 Thread pinheiro
A Tuesday 26 August 2008 12:47:59, Marco Martin escreveu: > On Tuesday 26 August 2008, pinheiro wrote: > > A Tuesday 26 August 2008 11:39:26, Marco Martin escreveu: > > > On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Chani wrote: > > > > what about corner actions like in dolphin? or would that suck for > > > > thumbs

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-26 Thread Matthias Welwarsky
On Tuesday, 26. August 2008, Chani wrote: > On 8/25/08, Benjamin Kleiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Montag 25. August 2008 21:54:53 schrieb Matthias Welwarsky: > > > Am Montag 25 August 2008 17:50 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: > > > > these icons will be big, shiny and happy. i'd also like to offe

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-26 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 26 August 2008, pinheiro wrote: > A Tuesday 26 August 2008 11:39:26, Marco Martin escreveu: > > On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Chani wrote: > > > what about corner actions like in dolphin? or would that suck for > > > thumbs? ...ohh. those normally show up on hover, and touchscreens > > > do

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-26 Thread pinheiro
A Tuesday 26 August 2008 11:39:26, Marco Martin escreveu: > On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Chani wrote: > > what about corner actions like in dolphin? or would that suck for > > thumbs? ...ohh. those normally show up on hover, and touchscreens > > don't really have hover > > aaron,were you suggesti

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-26 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Chani wrote: > > what about corner actions like in dolphin? or would that suck for > thumbs? ...ohh. those normally show up on hover, and touchscreens > don't really have hover > aaron,were you suggesting they show up on mousedown and then i can > drag my pointer to o

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-26 Thread Chani
On 8/25/08, Benjamin Kleiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Am Montag 25. August 2008 21:54:53 schrieb Matthias Welwarsky: > > > Am Montag 25 August 2008 17:50 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: > > > > these icons will be big, shiny and happy. i'd also like to offer a hover > > > > based interface for th

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-26 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Monday 25 August 2008 18:14:14 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > i have some (poorly) hand drawn sketches that i could scan in, but Riccardo > actually had inkscape open and was working on mockups. maybe he can share > that if he still has it; if not, then i'll fire up skanlite =) yes, it needs a little

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-26 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Monday 25 August 2008 19:14:51 Marco Martin wrote: > i think we should also pay attention to make a default layout that would > look usable both for an horizontal screen and a vertical one with > height the display or not, but is still something important i think. If you want to do it well, tha

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz)
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Marco Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i think we should also pay attention to make a default layout that would look > usable both for an horizontal screen and a vertical one with height now, i don't know if n810 graphics drivers support rotation of the display o

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz)
2008/8/25 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > that is understandable. when i compare the current maemo look to canola, it's > really night and day to me: canola wins, hands down. \o/ ! =P > if you could perhaps share what the goals or requirements are for canola when > it comes to the look an

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Benjamin Kleiner
Am Montag 25. August 2008 21:54:53 schrieb Matthias Welwarsky: > Am Montag 25 August 2008 17:50 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: > > these icons will be big, shiny and happy. i'd also like to offer a hover > > based interface for them, so you can press, hold briefly, move, release > > and trigger a non-laun

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday 25 August 2008, Matthias Welwarsky wrote: > Am Montag 25 August 2008 16:22 schrieb Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz): > > Hey! > > > > 2008/8/24 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 5. create artwork for all this specific to the devices > > > 6. research! > > > > Just my 2 cents: our experien

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Matthias Welwarsky
Am Montag 25 August 2008 17:50 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: > these icons will be big, shiny and happy. i'd also like to offer a hover > based interface for them, so you can press, hold briefly, move, release and > trigger a non-launch action (such as colour in the "mark as favourite" > star, or maybe t

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Matthias Welwarsky
Am Montag 25 August 2008 16:22 schrieb Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz): > Hey! > > 2008/8/24 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 5. create artwork for all this specific to the devices > > 6. research! > > Just my 2 cents: our experience with n810 shows that end users tend > to like interfaces "thumb-f

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday 25 August 2008, Marco Martin wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > the two Views is probably easier and cleaner. > > kinda like more the two views thing, and now this is what plasma-mid does in svn. so ... to flesh this puppy out a bit more we need to create tha

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 25 August 2008, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote: > Hey! > > 2008/8/24 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 5. create artwork for all this specific to the devices > > 6. research! > > Just my 2 cents: our experience with n810 shows that end users tend > to like interfaces "thumb-friendly

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday 25 August 2008, Ivan Čukić wrote: > Do anyone think it would be a good idea to start this drafting at techbase, > and to populate it with actual mock-ups? Although I do understand (mostly > :) ) what Aaron said, I think it'd be more obvious with mocks. i have some (poorly) hand drawn ske

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday 25 August 2008, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote: >Yes, we run canola full screen because we wanted something really > different from maemo-look that is understandable. when i compare the current maemo look to canola, it's really night and day to me: canola wins, hands down. if you cou

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Ivan Čukić
Do anyone think it would be a good idea to start this drafting at techbase, and to populate it with actual mock-ups? Although I do understand (mostly :) ) what Aaron said, I think it'd be more obvious with mocks. BTW, +1 for the thing I understood Aaron wants :) -- Before you talk to me, I sho

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday 25 August 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2008, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote: > > Hey! > > > > 2008/8/24 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 5. create artwork for all this specific to the devices > > > 6. research! > > > > Just my 2 cents: our experience with n81

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz)
Hey! 2008/8/25 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > right now canola "takes over" the device with it's own info bar, etc, which > shouldn't be necessary with the plasma MID design. it would also be great for > us to conspire^Wcollaborate on art direction so we can provide a canola theme > that me

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday 25 August 2008, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote: > Hey! > > 2008/8/24 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 5. create artwork for all this specific to the devices > > 6. research! > > Just my 2 cents: our experience with n810 shows that end users tend > to like interfaces "thumb-friendly

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz)
Hi, On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Michael Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > with "thumb-friendly", do you mean finger friendly? All ten fingers, > or really just the two thumbs? Regarding the n810 I would say just the two thumbs...imagine that you hold the device with both hands and use

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey! > > 2008/8/24 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 5. create artwork for all this specific to the devices >> 6. research! > > Just my 2 cents: our experience with n810 shows that end users tend > to like in

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz)
Hey! 2008/8/24 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 5. create artwork for all this specific to the devices > 6. research! Just my 2 cents: our experience with n810 shows that end users tend to like interfaces "thumb-friendly", so it would be great If we could imagine an UI that the user could

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 25 August 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2008, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Monday 25 August 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > hi all.. > > > > > > Control Bar > > > === > > > this will contain a title for the current application and buttons for > > > home, put away a

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 25 August 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2008, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Monday 25 August 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > hi all.. > > > > > > Control Bar > > > === > > > this will contain a title for the current application and buttons for > > > home, put away a

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread richmoore44
On 8/25/08, Marijn Kruisselbrink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apart from the keyboard-open/-close events all the hardware buttons on the > N810 are not 'special' in any way, they just send 'normal' F1,F2,F3,... (not > sure about the exact numbers) and ESC events. So is something special really > ne

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread richmoore44
On 8/25/08, Kevin Ottens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Monday 25 August 2008, Aaron J. Seigo a écrit : >> * how to integrate with special buttons on these devices? > > FYI, I'm planning to channel this through libsolid. API wise we're close to > have everything we need there, so it's really about

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday 25 August 2008, Marco Martin wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > hi all.. > > > > Control Bar > > === > > this will contain a title for the current application and buttons for > > home, put away and quit. it will also contain on the right hand side the > > MID

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Ivan Čukić
> the point of this is to allow some of these icons to be hidden/shown on > demand so they aren't always on-screen taking up space. Ok, I misunderstood you then :) -- Before you talk to me, I should warn you: I am kind of strange ___ Plasma-devel mail

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday 25 August 2008, Ivan Čukić wrote: > Hi all, > > > Ivan has worked on a similar concept for a project he is working on; it > > is in playground/plasma/applets/embedded-ivan/titlebar/ .. we should look > > into Ivan's work here. > > I was planning to separate the 'control bar' as you named

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Kevin Ottens
Le Monday 25 August 2008, Marijn Kruisselbrink a écrit : > Apart from the keyboard-open/-close events all the hardware buttons on the > N810 are not 'special' in any way, they just send 'normal' F1,F2,F3,... > (not sure about the exact numbers) and ESC events. So is something special > really neede

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Marijn Kruisselbrink
On Monday 25 August 2008 08:33:31 Kevin Ottens wrote: > Le Monday 25 August 2008, Aaron J. Seigo a écrit : > > * how to integrate with special buttons on these devices? > > FYI, I'm planning to channel this through libsolid. API wise we're close to > have everything we need there, so it's really ab

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 25 August 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > hi all.. > > Control Bar > === > this will contain a title for the current application and buttons for home, > put away and quit. it will also contain on the right hand side the MID > system tray, which actually won't really be a system tray as

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread pinheiro
A Monday 25 August 2008 02:22:23, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu: > hi all.. > > some of us huddled together at Akademy on the last day and discussed what > we'd like to do for things like the Nokia N Series and EEE PC computers, or > as they are more generally known "mobile internet devices" or MIDs. > >

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-25 Thread Ivan Čukić
Hi all, > Ivan has worked on a similar concept for a project he is working on; it is > in playground/plasma/applets/embedded-ivan/titlebar/ .. we should look into > Ivan's work here. I was planning to separate the 'control bar' as you named it into multiple parts - i see no reason to force-merge

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-24 Thread Kevin Ottens
Le Monday 25 August 2008, Aaron J. Seigo a écrit : > * how to integrate with special buttons on these devices? FYI, I'm planning to channel this through libsolid. API wise we're close to have everything we need there, so it's really about upgrading the internal mechanics to make it work. Once t

Re: plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

2008-08-24 Thread Marijn Kruisselbrink
On Monday 25 August 2008 03:22:23 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > App Launcher > = > the app launcher needs to be full screen (modulo the control bar). for a > first draft we're going to try a layout with a category listing down the > left and nice large fingerable buttons representing launchable a