Plasma on MID, take 2

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 13:47:17 CEST 2009


On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz)
<artur.souza at openbossa.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> 2009/3/28 Emmanuel Lepage-Vallée <elv1313 at gmail.com>:
>> 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?
>
> One thing that I was thinking and I think Marco or Aaron too: use
> overlays for showing stuff...
> It's almost your idea about yakuake, but the overlay would be
> triggered by a hw key so it doesn't use too much screen space. When
> you are dealing with menus and plasmoids, etc... you probably is just
> focusing on one action and wants to use the whole screen for that.

when the space is scarce probably we will have to end up with relying
on an hardware key, press that and the application switchs to a full
screen menu (maybe even with the tabbar, that gets hidden when a
normal app is loaded)

> What do you think about that ?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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