Fullscreen interfaces

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimecres, 11 de març de 2009, Stefan Majewsky va escriure:
> Hi,
>
> besides some other stuff, I've been hacking on a fullscreen interface for
> my puzzle game Palapeli (see blog entry [1]). Along with this, I have
> thought about the topic of fullscreen interface components, and as I read
> from the comments on [1] that there is interest in it, I want to raise this
> topic here.
>
> [1]
> http://majewsky.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/the-week-in-palapeli-research-on-
> fullscreen-interfaces/
>
> Currently, we have some quite prominent apps with fullscreen interfaces,
> each one implementing its own solution. Let's analyse them:
> * The most prominent example is the Plasma cashew, obviously the result of
> application of Fitt's law. It displays a widget with common tasks for the
> given containment. I cannot comment on plasma-mid, as I have not yet tested
> it.
> * Gwenview has a slideshow mode, which can be activated from the toolbar.
> Move the mouse to the top to get the interface. This interface is themable
> (although I have only one theme installed, and have not yet figured out how
> to install more themes or where to get some) and looks very clean.
> * Okular has a presentation mode, where a similar bar appears when moving
> the mouse to the top of the screen. It is much uglier, however. (No insult
> to the Okular devs, you probably have better things to do, but a solid
> unstyled background is outmoded.)
> * Aaron mentioned that Digikam also features a fullscreen interface, but I
> do not have it installed and cannot comment on that, either. I would expect
> it to be quite similar to the one that Gwenview provides.
> * For Palapeli, I want a similar interface to that of Plasma, but with
> multiple cashews in all screen corners and more arbitrary contents in the
> container that the cashew shows when it's clicked.
>
> None of these solutions are consistent at the moment: The Plasma cashew is
> not exported and therefore invisible to anything outside libplasma.
> Gwenview's nice interface is not reused in Okular, which is really a pity
> not only because of its theming; I really would like to have a bar with
> previews in Okular where I could also start automatic slideshows quickly.
> And Gwenview does not use Plasma themes, which should IMO have been the
> obvious solution from the start to enable theming. (Okay, that would have
> introduced a dependency of kdegraphics on kdebase-workspace in 4.0/4.1
> days, but today, there's no technical excuse.)
>
> I would like to have a collection of widgets for fullscreen interfaces in
> kdelibs, built upon concepts like the Plasma cashew and Gwenview's preview
> bar, with libplasma theming and such, to make KDE as a whole ready for
> mobile devices and media center applications. All applications on
> themselves are on a good way (esp. Plasma), but the desktop as a whole
> could do better.

Is this another plasma everywhere attempt?

Now serious, i don't think it makes sense using Plasma inside okular as plasma 
theming is out of place there, in Okular we use real widgets not plasma 
thingies.

Albert

>
> Greetings
> Stefan (who is esp. hoping for input from the usability experts)