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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: A new interaction technology for input devices at K Desktop
From:       "John Tapsell" <johnflux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-07-30 12:24:43
Message-ID: 43d8ce650807300524m5a4971d6m8aa5e909ff159474 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2008/7/30 Christos Margiolas <margiolas.christos@gmail.com>:
> I have to say that the resize of the photo was one of my thoughts.
> I will do a better presentation for my idea and I will send you the link to
> my blog

I look forward to it.  Remember - concrete use cases and concrete proposals :)

John

>
> Christos Margiolas
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:42 PM, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2008/7/29 Christos Margiolas <margiolas.christos@gmail.com>:
>> > Ok! I will try to express my recent idea as simple as I can and without
>> > technical specifications for two reasons, first I want to think and find
>> > many things for the implementation and second I just want to publish my
>> > idea. Many mouses and touchpads have very good abilities but because
>> > either
>> > of the deficiency of the drivers or either of the final application
>> > development the final user doesn't relish these features. I believe that
>> > the
>> > development of a library for the support of those special features at
>> > kde
>> > will help enough the usability and the usage of the environment. At
>> > other
>> > environments like mac os x the user can do many useful things with the
>> > touchpad, with a simple touch can change his pdf page or go to the next
>> > photo. My idea implementation at this early stage I believe that will
>> > contain a library for the integration of this feature at the apps, a
>> > library
>> > with plugin system for the support of different hardware(let's say
>> > backends)
>> > and for the adjunct of new "interaction" features. The first backend
>> > will
>> > support synaptics touchpads(this is my touchpad type ). Also I think
>> > that
>> > every application should use the advanced device abilities specialized
>> > for
>> > their needs.
>> > KDE 4 as we know is a revolution with many glorious technologies such as
>> > plasma, akonadi and phonon, so I believe that at a high tech technology
>> > environment the user needs also revolutionary input devices usage and
>> > that
>> > is the big goal of my idea. I believe that my idea would be relative not
>> > only with mouses and touchpad devices but also with motion detectors and
>> > other more advanced devices. With  this technology I think that we will
>> > have
>> > interact with plasma via a touch screen or something more extreme like
>> > motion gloves.
>> > Only this for now. This is just an idea and if I will find out that is
>> > useful for the community I aim to spend enough time. I am waiting your
>> > comments.
>>
>> The way forward with such ideas is to try to come up with some very
>> specific use cases.
>> Write out a few use cases such as:
>>
>> Jane wants to resize her photos using a motion detection glove.
>>
>> Then look at what the minimal set of changes would be to solve the
>> specific use cases that you've come up.  Then look at how to abstract
>> and extend.
>> If you look at specific use cases and propose very specific changes
>> broken up in small useful chunks, you'll find it becomes a lot easier
>> to push forward ideas and get people involved :)
>>
>> JohnFlux
>>
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