PMC use case

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 March 2010 16:59:54 Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote:
>>     Whoa, just been off for few hours and so much discussion! Too bad
>> I arrived late :P
>>
>> Christohpe, as Marco said, we will be having the Browser display the
>> list of plugins (and hence modes) anyway, so we can maximize it to the
>> whole screen and kind of use it as the Home applet. But yes, if you've
>> some more things that can be there in the Home applet, please share
>> the ideas.
>>
>> Sebas, I don't get how we should target mainly TVs instead of
>> notebooks? TVs will be just an output device as far as I know (unless
>> there is a TV which runs KDE SC) so the actual stuff (application)
>> will anyway be running on a notebook/netbook/PC. If I'm not
>> understanding what you meant, it'd be nice if you can explain a bit :)
>
> The thing can run on a conventional notebook, or netbook, or whatever hardware you
> want it to, the important things when using a TV as output device are:
>
> - input: mice don't work so well, pointer-based devices in general have problems
>  (hard to point at exactly the right thing)
> - UI element sizes: a laptop screen allows for much more fidelity than a TV screen,
>  you can simply fit more elements on a screen you're looking at closely (it's also
>  related to input size)

Noted :)
>
> Now it might turn out that buttons on an N900 screen can have just the same size in
> pixels as on a fullHD TV screen, but it's not a given so we need rather large
> elements as well. Ow, and people might not have a keyboard connected or easily
> reachable.

Yes, so we'll try to keep the number of different input combinations
(which translate to keys for a keyboard, arrow buttons for a remote
control). As far as the Wiimote is considered, I think Alessandro has
one and can give it a shot.

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