From kde-active Sun Oct 28 23:38:35 2012 From: David Talmage Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:38:35 +0000 To: kde-active Subject: Re: "Big picture" design one release cycle ahead? Message-Id: <1850845.5H0ymoGHxF () facteur> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-active&m=135146753032505 On Saturday, October 27, 2012 10:55:37 AM Bj=F6rn Balazs wrote: > ... > Let's get in touch with our users - try to understand what is working > good and where improvements are needed, as part of the preparation of > the next sprint. And after the sprint, let's again talk to them and > see if we managed to substantially improve the perceived quality. > ... I'm a user. I'm also a developer by profession, so I probably fall into Ing= e = Wallin's category #1, the tinkerers. Other commitments prevent me from = getting involved in PA development. I'm happy to be only a user and to try = out PA and report about what works. I chose to run PA on my 32GB 3G WeTab because 4tiitoo seems to be getting o= ut = of the business of tablets. I think the activites metaphor makes sense on a = tablet for the way I want to use mine. I don't have a use for activites = on my desktop computer. On my PA3 WeTab, I have three activites. 1. An activity for general web surfing and reading books. I'm currently rea= ding = "Version Control with Git". On my WeTab, the PDF viewer was good enough. = It = handled screen rotation correctly. In portrait orientation, a page was alm= ost = as big as in a real book. The PDF viewer wasn't especially finger-friendly= . = The one in PA3 is almost OK. It needs to support a portrait view. I like = the = page thumbnails. 2. An activity for e-mail, calendar, and contacts. I use kontact-touch = occasionally for these PIM activities. I get e-mail through an IMAP account= . = I keep my calendar and contacts on a DAViCal server. This seems to be worki= ng. = I like it a lot. A better soft keyboard would improve my user experience = signficantly. 3. An activity for my trip to Berlin for Qt Developer Days. This is = interesting. It's the first activity I created on PA3. I have the map = application in the activity and I have bookmarks in it for my hotel and the = conference center and a place or two I want to visit. I have some German = language books and bookmarks for German dictionaries, the Goethe Institute, = and a Google map. I'm having fun with this one. I'd like to use PA for watching movies and listening to music. Bangarang = crashes too easily for this. I think it knows about only ogg media, which = is = fine, but I have a lot of files in the various mpeg formats (2, 3, 4) and s= ome = other popular but not free ones. There are a few things I'd like to see the PA team work on immediately. Th= ese = things would make PA a joy to use. 1. The PA shell must not crash. 2. The soft keyboard must work all of the time. I've encountered plenty of = times, particulary after booting, when I could not get the keyboard to = display. This is frustrating when PA is asking for the key that unlocks my = KDE wallet. 2.a. The soft keyboard must not be tedious to use. It's tiresome in the = konsole application. For konsole, the addition of Esc, ctrl, and arrow keys = would be ideal. I know that's not what the PA team thinks is important for = the = general user and they are probably right. 3. Better PDF/E-book reader with portrait display and the ability to annota= te. 4. Support for all popular media types. This includes a media player that = doesn't crash. 5. Bluetooth support. I would hook up my BT GPS receiver and some BT = speakers. David Talmage _______________________________________________ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active