Plasma on MID, take 2

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Michael Rudolph wrote:
> > I never understood why plasma-mid wants to cater to, well, MIDs, as
> > well as netbooks.
>
> because i was "tainted" by looking at MIDs from the people who coined the
> term, Intel, and not the MIDs that we all tend to think of such as the
> n810.
>
> the Intel MID concept was for a much larger screen, for one.
>
> > What I had in mind was to in fact get rid of applications completely
> > (as user interface primitives, that is). I imagined perhaps a temporal
> > user interface or a spacial user interface or a social user interface.
>
> that's the idea behind trying to offer more widgets-on-canvas-are-your-
> primary-interface tools in these cases. it won't work on the desktop/laptop
> (where something like a full gwenview or amarok make much more sense), but
> it's probably perfect for these devices.
and certain things  like the microblogging plasmoid seems to be done really 
for that :)
(even GHNS->appstore cough cough :))