Task Launcher - mockups

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Thursday 31 January 2013 13:14:57 Marco Martin wrote:
> pmc as is is quite a thing that i see more for another shell (set top box
> form factor or something like that)
> 
> for videos i would certainly see a very simple video app that plays a single
> video selected from fiels and that's it.
> 
> but here is also where i think we kindof hit a wall. for music instead we
> shout either
> a) make the files app extremely complex, or
> b) delegate this to pmc and make it the "browser" of music, since while
> listening music one expect to brose by artist/album/year, make playlists,
> connect to remote streams and so forth

I think there is a place for both. If I just want to play a single video/song, 
searching for it in Files and having it played in a very simple player is 
probably what I want.
If I'm sitting around with friends and want to create a playlist for the 
evening with them, an experience like the one PMC offers is probably better 
suited. That still doesn't mean that I need to know what "Plasma Mediacenter" 
is, though. I can just say "Browse my Videos" and I that starts PMC in the 
video browsing mode.
 
> putting all of this in the file browser, no matter how "modular" is done,
> again accentrates the work and makes it less scalable as concept, as ui and
> as manpower.
> almost the same discourse probably holds for pim stuff like mails and
> possibly contacts, calendars etc.

I don't think we absolutely need to have everything in Files. The current 
problem is that the experience of Files, PMC and Kontact Mobile are completely 
different. If we get them more in line, users do not have to care what 
application they're currently looking at. 
That's the charm of the task-centric UI. Users say "Show me my emails" and get 
the application which does that best, without even knowing what "Kontact" is.