plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

[Chani]

On 8/25/08, Benjamin Kleiner <bizzl.greekdog at web.de> wrote:
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> Am Montag 25. August 2008 21:54:53 schrieb Matthias Welwarsky:
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> > Am Montag 25 August 2008 17:50 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
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> > > these icons will be big, shiny and happy. i'd also like to offer a hover
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> > > based interface for them, so you can press, hold briefly, move, release
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> > > and trigger a non-launch action (such as colour in the "mark as
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> > > favourite" star, or maybe things like "hide entry"?)
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> > gestures are nice but not easily discoverable. maybe just press+hold and
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> > then offer some context specific activities in a (shrug) menu-thingy?
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> What about a circular menu, similar to kommando or the circular application
> menu for gnome?
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> Okay, that would still be a menu, but I think this would be easily
> accessible with the thumb.

what about corner actions like in dolphin? or would that suck for
thumbs? ...ohh. those normally show up on hover, and touchscreens
don't really have hover....
aaron,were you suggesting they show up on mousedown and then i can
drag my pointer to one of the corner icons to select it? huh.
interesting.

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