Re: Back to basics

2012/8/17 Marco Martin <[email protected]>:
> On Thursday 16 August 2012, Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
>> So i have been thinking lately about, all the things I didn't do and that
>> I failed doing over this last few years, basally getting depressed.
>>
>> But after watching all the wonderful integration the oxygen guys did with
>> interoffice style, realized that in spite of all the things we failed at we
>> managed to do allot of other things really really well.
>>
>> And that lead me to thing that most of those are in the traditional desktop
>> area... you know the basic stuf...
>>
>> one thing lead to another and I acoured to me that the timing is perfect
>> for a release were we focus on the basic desktop, and we market it just
>> like that a "back to basics" release for the big 4.10, so we would do a
>> few litle thing that improve the basic desktop experience the things
>> people use 90% of the time, and we market that, we market that we still
>> care about mouse and keyboard interaction and what works.
>>
>> So I will do a new wallpaper and plasma theme with that in mind. and will
>> blog about its progress and  the reasoning about it. would be fantastic if
>> we could collectively all do a few little improvements with that in
>> mind...
>>
>> So what do we think good idea?
>
> to me there are many things that should need to be done, and most of those are
> really small.
> one big factor we lack is the "first impression" factor, what destroys this is
> a lot of small annoyances, like icons or layouts misaligned by one pixel, text
> not prefectly vertically centered, to many fonts in a single screen etc.
>
> all those factors contribute in augmenting the visual noise, and all of them
> individually are almost invisible, but add up very badly one on top of each
> other.
> it's also hard because most of our developers (well, most technical people in
> general, not only developers) have a complete blind spot on this, in part for
> proximity blindness, in part for just not being wired this way. So, not easy
> to do, but let's do it.

I remember that I talked to Nuno about this in the first time that I
met him, back in 2009.
I agreee with all that was said by Nuno and Martin but there's one
thing missing - I was talking with Viviane Nonato ( one of the artists
on KDE down here on brazil ) and she asked me where's the HIG for the
K'software, I found it, but it's incomplete and besides being
incomplete, a lot of apps doesn't follow it.

for me the biggest annoyance is still the same annoyance from the KDE
3 times.: app ui too cluttered. ( Kate becomes unusable on a small
screen when hovering the text hidlight menu, because the menu is so
big that it consumes the whole screen )

I do remember everyone that I have 6 students over my wing for the
next 6 months that will work exclusively on KDE, I tougth of putting
them on Umbrello, ActivityManager and Step but they don't have the
required C++ skills to hack on anything complicated for now, so I can
put them to work cleaning the desktop for making it better for desktop
use.


> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
>
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