Plasma on MID, take 2

[Christopher Blauvelt]

2009/3/28 Emmanuel Lepage-Vallée <elv1313 at gmail.com>

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> *Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote:*
>  > The main problem I see with the "tab bar" approach is that for devices
>  > as small as n8x0 you don't have enough screen space to put that much
>  > of information there. That was the main UI error with Maemo until
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>  > Diablo release.
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> I can understand that, but I have no better idea than a (vertical or horizontal) tab bar to switch from activity to activity. Zoom take too much resources and I don't think it make sense on such small devices.
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> Open question to every reader: How to switch from activity to activity on a MID? Something that is visible to the user right from the start and do not take too much space.
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> One other idea would be a slide down display like yakuake, blender config, and iPhone context menu.
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> In that case, the top area would only be a panel with autohide, but I don't like that, it fell to much like a palm and I don't like those devices. On netbook, I would use tab bar it work well. iPhone and iPod touch solved the problem with the "only one application at the time". I work, but I am not sure it will work for KDE and it is not how plasma work at all. Any better idea?
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I like the idea of using a 'home' screen which you can switch back to
without closing the application.  Something similar to the iPhone or
moblin.  If you don't want to have something with every icon available then
perhaps a widget that pops up with all open applications.
Chris
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