plasma-mid (Mobile Internet Device)

[pinheiro]

A Tuesday 26 August 2008 12:47:59, Marco Martin escreveu:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2008, pinheiro wrote:
> > A Tuesday 26 August 2008 11:39:26, Marco Martin escreveu:
> > > On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Chani wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > maybe keeping pressed for more than x time like the fake right mouse
> > > menu in some places of maemo?
> > > would only be needed that the menu has items big enough
> > > (there is even already a plasma patch by Marijn that does that)
> >
> > Do we have any idea of the amount of possible apps we might have?
> > tree like menus are not IMO best bread in this devices... so i would
> > favor page like menus, but if we have more than say 3 pages then some
> > categorization must be in order... somthing like play, surf, configure,
> > produce, etc.
>
> by default very few, i think one page would fit all the application, the
> problem is the fist week one has the device and tries to install almost
> every conceivable crap (well at least it's what happens to me, but maybe
> i'm too geeky) :)
>
> i was thinking to something like that (very quick and dirty ):
> http://www.notmart.org/misc/plasma-mid.png
> the bar on the left is a top level panel that switches between start menu
> (default when it boots), a desktop with plasmoids look alike and the list
> of running tasks, also a grid of big icons
>
> the right bar belongs to the start menu containment so doesn't always take
> screen and has the categories of the start menu (and contacts too maybe)
>
> the search field maybe appears/disappears on keyboard slide :)
>
> oh and with this design i really have no idea where to put the tray icons
> :(

yes this what what i was worried about... not sure the sides of the screnn are 
the best place to interact with the device... in computers its the best place 
couse you have infinite hit area in a mobile device the edge of the screen 
device can help or not... IMO the edges should be for information bars like 
systemtry infomation icons etc not interaction... 
>
>
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
>
>
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