<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Jens Reuterberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jens@ohyran.se" target="_blank">jens@ohyran.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ok so there has been a proposal for a set of Plasma Mobile HIG's and designs.<br>
It was sent out a while back (or so I thought because something must have gone<br>
weird with my email)... either way here it is again.<br>
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The work has been done by Alex L and Andrea del Sarto (VDG's two new core<br>
members and phone wizards) and is very much a work in progress and one of the<br>
many ideas so far. There are too many focus issues to be hammered out still so<br>
remember that all this is very much something that should be taken lightly for<br>
now.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So I'm not sure if I should be commenting on it or not, but here's my take</div><div>on it. I really like the menus exported to panels idea. Ideally QML can do</div><div>this for us for free already just like the QWidget apps work (I dunno). </div><div><br></div><div>The task manager - I'm not entirely convinced on the idea of when you pull</div><div>it up half-way, it stays pulled up half-way. I think that swiping from the</div><div>bottom edge should just show the panel big enough that you can tap on it</div><div>without needing another zoom, but if you keep swiping from bottom, it would</div><div>switch to the previews at full. So basically three states - panel hidden, panel</div><div>pulled up with normal zoom and panel morphed into previews with the panel</div><div>shrinking down if you pull up too much but not enough to trigger the previews</div><div>threshold.</div><div><br></div><div>Different side swiping down - at this point I already feel the edge swiping</div><div>navigation is so overwhelming that I'm afraid to use it cause it's just too</div><div>much gestures to learn and remember. This point I'd personally just be</div><div>happy to leave out. Fwiw, my current phone offers so many swipe gestures</div><div>that lots of time I'm just starring at the screen and feel lost. I'd like to avoid</div><div>that with Plasma.</div><div><br></div><div>The screens grid - I feel like that introduces more unnecessary complexity,</div><div>both for the user and the code. Given how long Android and iOS are out</div><div>and given what they offer, I think they kidna nailed it already and we can</div><div>just learn from them. Adding complexity into this simple thing just because</div><div>we can doesn't seem right. Letting the user create a maze out of their home</div><div>screens...I just don't see the need *shrug*. Remember, too many options</div><div>make users unhappy :P</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
What we need is input from you guys (the people who belong to the "dev" side<br>
of things) - we need to look at a certain set of requirements for Apps to be<br>
able to hammer out a design.<br>
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1) We need the apps to respect "bottom and top edges are reserved for the<br>
OS/Shell"<br>
2) We need the apps to handle certain common features the same way (hamburger<br>
menu, yay or nay)<br>
3) We need to see the apps as the main subject instead of something that<br>
should be ticked off a list.<br>
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The last one is my personal thing - instead of thinking something like "Oh<br>
Plasma Mobile need a mail app" it should be "What would be a killer app in<br>
Android?" - IE think of an app that would beat other email apps on any<br>
ecosystem instead of just a box to tick for Plasma Mobile.<br>
It should be an app which so redefine what such an app is that we could port it<br>
to Android and iOS and make it more popular than the once already available.<br>
It should be something in and off itself unique, not unique because Plasma<br>
Mobile doesn't have that kind off app - but rethinking the way we see<br>
applications.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes to this.</div><div><br></div></div><div>Cheers</div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer</span></div></div>
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