Re: A Plasma Vision draft

Hi,
Sorry if I come late, I wasn't aware of this thread...

Le lundi 26 septembre 2016, 12:56:25 CEST Jens Reuterberg a écrit :
> "Plasma is for people using a computing device in a professional context,
> where productivity, performance and privacy are essential"

I find that the "is for people .." kind of restrictive. I agree that you need 
to have a precise target audience, but don't freak out other people. 
If this is your vision, it should be the first big sentence that people will 
read. Normal users might say, 'uh, I want games as well, and listening to 
music and editing videos: it's not for me'.

I wonder if the professional context is important. To me plasma is 
productivity, performance and privacy. To achieve this, you target 
professionals (more mission-like).

Some ideas, that still sound wrong to me, but less (I don't like the "for 
people"):
"Plasma turns computing devices into productive, performant and private tools" 
"Plasma is for people for which productivity, performance and privacy are 
essential"
"Plasma aims at enhancing the productivity, performance and privacy of the 
user experience"
"Plasma: experience prod, perf and priv" ?

Well just some (bad) ideas... :)

Cheers
Olivier

> Added to that may come the "detail parts" and it will be packaged up, we
> just want to give everyone a chance to comment first until we nail it down.
> 
> /Jens
> 
> On Monday, 4 April 2016 15:45:30 CEST Jens Reuterberg wrote:
> > Hey, so me and Thomas have been hard at work on this for a while now and I
> > think we are at a good point to show what we got.
> > 
> > Please remember that THIS IS JUST A DRAFT! Nothing is set in stone even if
> > the document looks fancy (the PNG attached to this email)
> > Below is the raw text of it.
> > 
> > /Jens
> > 
> > The Vision is split into three subsections:
> > Vision, Details and and three key points.
> > The actual Vision:
> > Plasma is created to be the primary user interface for multiple device
> > classes providing a stable, performant, usable and above all productive
> > environment for professional computer users.
> > Plasma's feature set is selected for its usefulness in a productive
> > context
> > with a constant care to user privacy.
> > 
> > Detail 1: Plasma not only promises to never invade its users' privacy
> > itself, but also protect against other parties' attempts to spy on them.
> > Security is a precondition to privacy, all privacy measures are useless in
> > an insecure system.
> > Detail 2: Our target audience works with their devices in a professional
> > setting. Productivity is key for them and their user interface must give
> > them an efficient and swift way of completing tasks.
> > Detail 3: A perfomant desktop is the base of any productive environment
> > and
> > code quality, usability and aesthetic value are relevant to the
> > experience.
> > Nothing in the interface exists on its own merits but for what it brings
> > to
> > the user.
> > 
> > The Three Key points:
> > Private, Professional, Performant.