Interested in Plasma SoC

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Nathan Eckenrode wrote:
> Google Summer of Code. I am particularly interested in the idea which
> is intended to make adjustments in the UI to take UMPCs and
> touchscreens into account.

cool; i'm not sure if the brief description on the wiki was detailed enough or 
not, but if not here are some more of my thoughts on the matter:

the bulk of the work would likely entail creating a Containment class that 
provides a full screen icon based application launch and navigation 
interface. what would be neat with this Containment is that it would also 
likely embed within it the functions the panel does on the desktop (system 
tray, etc)

embedding webkit directly into that Containment when the user goes to open 
a "web browser" makes lots of sense as well i think (lower memory 
consumption, you can do some cool transitions between whatever nav UI and the 
web area). but that particular bit might be difficult to finish in just three 
months unless a webkit kpart emerges in that time (as that would take care of 
most of the needed integration work for e.g. cookies, networking, etc)

other possible avenues of exploration in this area could include:

* on screen text entry (keyboard? cell phone pad style? dasher?)
* tweaking an Animator to fit the system's limitations, if any
* ...

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