Creative direction of plasma

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A Tuesday 27 May 2008 15:24:59, Michael Rudolph escreveu:
> Hello everyone,
>
> some of you might have followed Riccardo's discussion with Aaron the
> other day. It was about some issues with plasma themeing and how these
> could be resolved. The consensus seemed to be, that plasma needs more
> creative direction; it was even talked about a creative director. Well,
> I hope we don't need a creative director. I hope, we all can give
> creative direction to plasma. There are two reasons, that together make
> me hope that.

Think artistic direction is a good thing, but everybody maust agrea on that, 
and agrea that design is more than  "make it prety" and will have impact on 
the features presented to the user and how the user interacats with them.
Any way I think plasma dosent need that, If any plasma developer wants design 
help in a given plasmoid you know were to find us. :) 


> First: everyone, who's involved with plasma needs to understand what
> plasma is about. It's definitely not just about not having icons on the
> desktop. Plasma is so much more. And everyone needs to understand that,
> no matter what aspect of plasma they are working on.
> That's why I'm writing the plasma vision statement. It's an effort to
> spawn a common understanding of what the problems are, that we together
> try to solve with plasma. After all, KDE3 was a really good desktop
> environment, so why are we all doing this, anyway?
>
> And secondly, it is my believe, that the number one sign of a great user
> interface is, that the innocent user will not even realize there is an
> interface.
> After this really easy (or was it extremely hard?) design principle is
> understood, everybody in our community of creative directors should be
> able to give constructive criticism, as to whether a new feature,
> artwork or otherwise, is too intrusive and tries to push itself past a
> user's content (which is the only thing, that should stand out on the
> desktop).
>
> Of course this meta discussion is rather useful. No, wait: rather
> useless :-) And the plasma community has proven itself to be rather
> immune to this kind of talk, so I will try to come up with some more
> concrete examples that can be discussed during the next couple of days.
> Probably as part of the discussion of scenarios that I promissed
> earlier. Also, nuno said he would like to bring some mockups to the
> table. Exiting times lie ahead.

the mock up :)

http://nuno-icons.com//images/estilo/imagefolders.png

Ok this is a frist try at the desktop folders issue, notmart presented me the 
problem yesterday and we talked about it for some time, the idea we had is 
nifty i gees and goes in the linne of what i have read in anma blog.
wen you drag an icon in to desktop you get a pop up asking "where should I put 
this"?

the asnser would depend on the options available 

example:
Peter has 3 difrent types of folders in is desktop

odf named work , normal, named files and image, named my pictures.

Peter drags a small movie clip from is camera int the desktop.

the folowing options are presented to him......

copy to files
create a new folder for this file.

peter decides to create a new folder and he choses video type of folder and 
names it "my cat movies".

Peter is one happy boy.


We also thought about making the folders colapsable in to some sort of folders 
container taht you can mouse over and see the items in each folder in some 
sort of screolview.




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