Re: Back to basics

On Friday 17 August 2012 18.10:25 Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
> A Sexta, 17 de Agosto de 2012 13:38:01 Tomaz Canabrava escreveu:
> > 2012/8/17 Carl Symons <[email protected]>:
> > > Page link on community.kde.org has been changed. Details below.
> > > 
> > > Carl>
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Felix Michel <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> > >> On Friday 17 August 2012 16.15:26 Anne Wilson wrote:
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> > >>> On 17/08/12 15:17, Felix Michel wrote:
> > >>> > On Friday 17 August 2012 16.00:46 Marco Martin wrote:
> > >>> >> On Friday 17 August 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > >>> >>> On Thursday 16 August 2012 21:47:12 Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
> > >>> >>>> So what do we think good idea?
> > >>> >>> 
> > >>> >>> I like the idea and it's an interesting answer to Windows 8
> > >>> >>> 
> > >>> >>> :-)
> > >>> >>> 
> > >>> >>> What I would like to see is collecting a list of tasks to be
> > >>> >>> done and try to attract new blood for it - there just have to
> > >>> >>> be many users who would love to see a traditional desktop.
> > >>> >> 
> > >>> >> as long as the word "traditional" or "tradition" is never,
> > >>> >> never, ever mentioned :p
> > >>> > 
> > >>> > what about an integration of all the new technologies KDE has and
> > >>> > polish them to a nice setup giving a good first impression. I
> > >>> > would like to create a wiki page or whatsoever and so that
> > >>> > everybody can work on this. Is there a good way to create a list of
> > >>> > tasks interactively? Does anybody has a suggestion? Also i would
> > >>> > separate the improvements in different areas:
> > >>> > 
> > >>> > - Polishing *Desktop, including Panel, Plasmoids, Systray and
> > >>> > Notifications *Standard KDE applications like Kwrite, Konsole,
> > >>> > Okular, Gwenview and so on *Dialogs
> > >>> > 
> > >>> > - Improvements *New default setting using Icontasks? *New default
> > >>> > setting integrating KRunner into the panel?
> > >>> > 
> > >>> > The improvements part is just an idea. But it think it would be
> > >>> > great and powerful to integrate Krunner into the panel so that the
> > >>> > user has the possibility to search and launch applications in a
> > >>> > fast way. KDE now has everything to build an unique experience
> > >>> > which is not traditional but desktop convenient.
> > >>> > 
> > >>> > What do you think? Any comments?
> > >>> 
> > >>> Yup - a simple page on community.kde.org, and make sure that its url
> > >>> is
> > >>> well known among interested parties.  Use that to gather tasks,
> > >>> comments, and hopefully commitments :-)
> > >> 
> > >> i created a page on the community page and named it Shapping it up.
> > >> 
> > >> You can access under: http://community.kde.org/Shapping_it_up
> > > 
> > > The page title has been corrected to:
> > > http://community.kde.org/Shaping_it_up
> > 
> > And nuno just asked to change to Back to Basics. :)
> 
> Yeah the main scope of my proposal is positioning ourselfs as the guys that
> still care about the mouse/keyboard driven desktop...
> 
> its more than polishing our many problems, its improving the mouse keyboard
> driven desktop acknowledging it is different and it needs different UI/UX
> paradigms than the touch world, but without looking like the old decrepit
> guys that think that doing nothing is the best thing....
> 
> so "back to basics" seams the best metaphor, improving the well by making it
> more round. not reinventing it because sometimes the well really works
> great.

changed to: http://community.kde.org/Back_to_basics

I used Nunos definition, hope thats okay.


> > >> Any comments? If you want to change something feel free to do so.
> > >> 
> > >>> After that, once the general trend of interest is decided we could use
> > >>> a userbase page or a forum thread if we want to know what really bugs
> > >>> users (making it clear that we are not talking application-wise).  But
> > >>> we need our intentions clear before that is done.
> > >>> 
> > >>> Anne
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