<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">Hi all,</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">In our last live meeting, we discussed a few ideas and goals around interaction. This is what we hope the desktop should behave like and what users can expect from a KDE desktop.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">We discussed some of the basic issues of the user experience that we all go through when using the Plasma desktop. We laid out the challenges that we have in collecting metrics and the perceived challenge of what the market is doing. We noted that many of our user experience conventions are not explicitly written in our Human Interface Guidelines. Some of them are assumed and, since they are not present in our HIG, it’s harder to guide developers and other designers through the right expectations. It also makes it harder for our own review team to help define some of these expectations.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">For that reason, our HIG will undergo a few changes in the coming months to be more explicit, more deliberate in providing information. We also have projects looking to unify and condense our massive documentation library. Our HIG website is part of that. We hope to have a one-page style document with only essential information for our users. Stay tuned for that. We are still working out the details.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">From our meeting, we also decided to stick to our main interaction idea “Simple by Default, Powerful when Needed”. This motto has stuck with our team for a long time, it was a good idea to review its effectiveness. We still see many traces in our design that show we have elements that are powerful first and simple second. However, we remain committed to this overall idea and the team will work to make this motto more evident in our desktop.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">Given these ideas, we have also actioned specific design changes to make sure there is stronger visual consistency in the desktop. A few tickets in bugzilla and invent are geared toward that.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">Sorry for the ever late report. Stay tuned for the next meeting.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">Andy (anditosan)</div><br><div class="gmail_signature">Join our Telegram channel: <a href="https://t.me/vdgmainroom">https://t.me/vdgmainroom</a></div></body></html>