Moc up look very pretty, But compare it to windows vista mock up.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/window= svista/images/image001_low.jpg

you will see the bottom green panel showing the information about teh = document selected.

there are a lot of issues to look at there:

1) see that how much information is linked to single file of rather a = 'content'. with such integration of information Desktop environment is able= to achieve several things at once.

2) It lets user to use and see the content the way he wishes to see it= . so no longer it is necessary for the beginer to leran 'folders are like d= rawers'. rather he rates the content and searches for 5 star rated content = on his computer or tags (Microsoft call it keywords) files whereever they a= re as 'Job Search' and again he gets all the content he wants where ever in= seconds=20

3) it lets desktop to integrate software with information browser, so = there is this new concept of search and use the content. this gives user an= d developer advantage like never before.

Advantages to developer:

for once developer does not have to code all this information manageme= nt as seperate software. consider media player eg. now no need to provide 5= -star rating storage mechanism seperately use system api, get the rating an= d use it and guess what email client needs to do if mails are stored as sta= rred content. use the very same api and just use it !=20

4) this vast information provides desktop environmet a chance to = integrate with the future. The evolving web technologies for instance.= XML gives developer vast range of choices to choose data format and i= f desktop supports it to the web apps could become as feature rich and= effecient as full fleged programs.=20

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for now this is all i can see, but lot of things i think of can become= more clear if there is more clear documentation / explanation of what= KDE 4 architecture is planned to be. right now there is not very precise d= escription available i guess. =20

lastly, i am am not exactly a experienced technical programmer, s= o if any one could provide me with how to translate this stuff in term= s of KDE code plans or correct/add to it I would be great

thanks

sachin.

On 9/30/05, = Milen Dzhumerov <gamehack= @1nsp1r3d.co.uk> wrote:=20

Hi all,

I just wanted to = ask what is your attitude to kde4 mockups? I mean, say
that someone does= some great mockup and many of the developers like it.=20
After usability studies etc is there a possibility that it will be
i= mplemented? I just saw a mockup of kde4 on
kde-apps(http://www.kde-apps.org/co= ntent/show.php?content=3D28476=20 ) and I
quite like it. What do you think?

Regards,
gamehac= k

PS. Sorry if I'm writing to the wrong list

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