plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 25 August 2008, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote:
> Hey!
>
> 2008/8/24 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>:
> > 5. create artwork for all this specific to the devices
> > 6. research!
>
>   Just my 2 cents: our experience with n810 shows that end users tend
> to like interfaces "thumb-friendly", so it would be great If we could
> imagine an UI that the user could use mainly with his thumbs and just
> use stylus for minor interactions.

absolutely.

when we were discussing the idea of "launching applications", which is the 
primary UI (PUI) for these things we decided on a side list because we can 
make nice big targets and a big krunner-like buttons that are easily "thumbed" 
as you note.

we specifically did not want a pull out menu in this case with a desktop 
showing because it's much harder to create an easily thumb/fingerable system in 
a menu unless you make that menu really big (e.g. take up the whole screen =)

speaking of such things, i'd really like at some point later down the line 
look at how we can merge / integrate with canola better.

right now canola "takes over" the device with it's own info bar, etc, which 
shouldn't be necessary with the plasma MID design. it would also be great for 
us to conspire^Wcollaborate on art direction so we can provide a canola theme 
that melds nicely with whatever we come up with for the plasma MID, and in the 
other direction maybe take some hints for the plasma MID-tuned theme from 
canola.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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