Creative direction of plasma

[Riccardo Iaconelli]

On 5/27/08, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Michael Rudolph wrote:
>
>  > > > Panel-devel at kde.org
>  > > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/panel-devel
>  >
>  > Hello nuno,
>  >
>  > wow, that was fast.
>  >
>  > But if I may speak freely: no, no, no!
>  >
>  > This is just the most beautiful version of everything, that plasma needs
>  > to overcome.
>  >
>  > We need to ask ourselves the question: What is it, that the user really
>  > wants to do? And how can we use the technology that is currently
>  > available, at the beginning of the 21st century (and specifically in
>  > plasma, prior to the 4.1 release) to ease the user's way to achieving
>  > their goals?
>  >
>  > I like the lower folderview, in which you display a screenshot of an
>  > actual document. But why don't we just get rid of everything else
>  > around it?
>  > I've been talking about "no interface" being the "best interface" and
>  > I'd like to explain that, using this very example:
>
>
> partly the direction is that, think about the picture frame that gets created
>  when a picture is dropped on the desktop, it will be extended for other file
>  types.

That's already possible, IIRC. I remember a patch by me of last year
implementing exactly that... dunno if it has been removed though.

>  but a folder is only just another type of thing that can (or will can) get
>  created when dropped on desktop. it's a quick way to get maybe copy
>  create/delete operations done.
>  i think there is the need of that, even if more marginal (an applet vs the
>  entire desktop like before) because the concept of files and folders will not
>  go away anytime soon in the desktop (it makes sense for other kind of devices
>  btw) because trying to hide the filesystem too much can really cause
>  frustration (think about the media, home and system kio slaves in kde3)
>  probably for technical limitations (for example, how can i open a document
>  represented in plasma as a preview in a gtk app? at the moment it will always
>  stink) but we must live with that for a some time still.
>  on the other hand think i prefer it will remain quite simple and not a full
>  blown copy of dolphin.
>  just two random toughts :)

Bye,
-Riccardo
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