On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: >> >> >> Hey everybody, >> >> >> >> >> >> I think it will be really difficult to have the UI scale from 50" >> >> >> screens right down to 5" screens. At the moment we use a top panel >> >> >> for playback control (and mode switching) and will use a bottom >> >> >> panel for >> >> > >> >> > i don't think the mode switching should ultimately be there, the modes >> >> > should be shown as mammoth icons in a main menu in the browser itself, >> >> > that would be a kind of "root folder" for it. >> >> >> >> From the wiki: >> >> On PMC startup the user will see a beautiful home applet that has (PMC >> >> is meant to be fullscreen): >> >> >> >> * Buttons to switch to the following media modes: Pictures, Music, >> >> Videos (later: Games, maybe an all Media Mode) >> >> * Area with information about your recently played media, highest >> >> ratings, things that allow you to jumpstart to a specific media. >> >> * Possibility to add normal plasmoids, like note apps, web slice,... >> > >> > do you plan to make that home applet the top bar? >> >> No, the home applet should be the first thing that the user sees. Upon >> entering a mode, the top and bottom bars appear >> >> >> is not fullscreen enough, >> >> > and put all the possible mode here will quickly run out of space an be >> > cluttered, in the bar there should be a single button, triggered also >> > from a single real key (could be esc or home, or whatever in keyboards, >> > the more adapt case by case on remotes) >> > that "home applet" if you want it really isolated could be a different >> > containment, so would be a totally standaloe fullscreen thing, but i >> > don't think i like it. >> >> I more thought of it as an additional applet. On switching to home >> mode, everything hides and the home applet appears >> >> > i really do think it should be right into the browser, the "modes" >> > together eventual plugins to do other stuff should be right into the >> > browser as items, so they can be as big as possible taking the whole >> > screen or scale decently if some day there will be many of them. >> >> the general PMC home applet does not have a browser. each mode has its >> own specific home applet which actually is a browser which shows media >> specific dataengines. This one will have big icons > > i fear this is just useless code duplication, really. > for this fullscreen menu you need exactly the same functionality of the > browser.
Wouldn't it just be different startup models? (see ugly mockup here: general home applet at the bottom) http://imagebin.ca/view/uEvKL2.html > > Cheers, > Marco Martin > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
