>> we'd have two incompatible sets of tablet apps. Those that use MeeGo
>> UX Components, and those that use Qt Components, with either tablet
>> not able to run the other framework.
>
> today, compliance does not yet cover the components, but you're making a
> very good case that it should....
For me, as someone coming from a different branch of computer programming,
mainly databases/framework-driven websites and graphic design and still trying
to be enthusiastic about the meego-project, I'm really wondering about these
components-discussions, or more specifically, I'm wondering about the lack of
strategical thinking they express (please forgive my ignorance and be assured
that it's not my intention to criticise anyone personally).
IMHO what could make platform-unity, from a daily-user perspective, is less
iCandy but more function-and-feel of it's components. This is for example the
timing and boldness of interactions, graphical feedbacks to user actions and
mainly the functionality of the components, copy-and-paste, key bindings (I'm
using ctrl-t for twiddle all the time in every single Cocoa text entry field;
on a side note, for me it's completely hilarious that after Nokia announces to
use Windows Phone in the future, everyone speaks about an WP-update bringing
the long-awaited "copy-and-paste"-function, and this after 30 years of
graphical user interfaces).
Having the same components would make it possible to have graphically
completely different looking and/or organized UXs but at the same time a strong
unified feel at the whole meego platform.
So I'm somehow scared about the perspective that the crucial point of complex
platform widgets/components does not seem to be on the agenda. For me this is
on the same scale as non-compatible appstores making it impossible to sell once
for the whole meego-platform, which will be a huge missed opportunity IMHO
again. But then maybe I'm misunderstanding what meego is about.
If I would be a vendor I would instead care about good distinctive graphic
design and about correctly working apps in all their complexity (like the
calendar app or the email client, hint hint).
best regards
-- erik
Erik Stein
Programmierung, Grafik
Oranienstr. 32 10999 Berlin, Germany
fon +49 30 69201880 fax +49 30 692018809
email [email protected]
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