Task-centric system planning

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 29 December 2012, Carl Symons wrote:
> Several people didn't make it. Some were late arriving.
> 
> Log attached.

read.
if i understood correctly main points are:
* how present ui in a task oriented way, hide the fact that you are doing half 
of the task with applicationx half with application y
* present things like "writing a letter to a friend for his birthday" rather 
than starting independentely kcal + calligra words + kmail ("named tasks"?)
* there is a partial mapping with activities
* the thing (first step?) that seemed to recurr more in the discussion every 
few lines was how to "create stuff": avoid own interface for every 
applications: have some ideas on that, i'll expose either later in the thread 
or in a second meeting if any

in general good concepts. in the end things like applications will still 
exists since it's how the operating systems work and how the development work 
(functionalities in the end are grouped by repo/development team during 
development, and in the end by different executables/libraries that end up 
executed in their process, represented by their window. has to be taken into 
account,, but can be definitely become less "central" ie using an application 
or another to to a task or a part of a task should be a detail, just as using 
a showel then an hammer to do a real world task ;)

again sorry for missing it, in the period during the various xmas stuff was 
going to be a bit challenging :)

so we can "study" what has been said today (in the end the two people nearest 
to hci were present today, maybe even good that i wasn't here to influence 
with annoying technical details;) and then do another one in january when 
hopefully there will be full house.

Cheers,
Marco Martin