On 3/3/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Rudolph</b> <<a href="mailto:michael.rudolph@gmail.com">michael.rudolph@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello everyone,<br> <br> while we're at the task of improving kickoff, I'd like to tell you my<br> thoughts of what should be improved about kickoff and my ideas for how<br> it could be done.<br> <br> Currently kickoff is an application launcher interface and thus, in my<br>
point of view, is putting the spotlight on the wrong items of our user<br> interface.<br> <br> Instead of making kickoff be about applications, why not let tasks take<br> center stage in the start-menu? After all, it's tasks that we really<br>
want to get done when we use a computer, applications are just the<br> necessary means to do it with current technology.<br> <br> There is already a lot of interesting technology in place (since win95,<br> in fact), so the transition from an app-centric user interface to a<br>
task-centric one could be evolutionary, rather than revolutionary,<br> which is a good thing in my book.<br> <br> For starters we could put the recent documents tab up front. This is as<br> good as it currently gets in terms of giving users access to their<br>
current tasks and projects. I'd also rename the tab to "current tasks".<br> <br> We could start to give better descriptions in applications' .desktop-<br> files. So instead of having "Word Processing" in kword's file, we would<br>
put "Write a letter" or "Write a resumé" in there and launch kword with<br> the appropriate "--template" option. (and of course use descriptions<br> instead of application names in kickoff).<br>
<br> This is of course just a first step, a very easy one though. I also have<br> ideas for further steps, that, although lacking intimate knowledge of<br> plasma's inner workings, I'd still call easy, too.<br> <br>
But first I'd like to hear your comments. Are we on the same page with<br> task-centric user interfaces? And would such a first step be feasible?<br> <br> michael<br> </blockquote></div><br>Yes, and... that's the idea behind raptor, no? ;-)<br clear="all">
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