From kde-devel Wed Jul 30 14:42:10 2008 From: "Guillaume Pothier" Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:42:10 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: A new interaction technology for input devices at K Desktop Message-Id: <8caa8ded0807300742g105d66dfpfb92416b10a28cdf () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=121742900701468 The ICon system (http://inputconf.sourceforge.net/) can be a great source of inspiration for the technical side. g On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:24 AM, John Tapsell wrote: > 2008/7/30 Christos Margiolas : >> 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 wrote: >>> >>> 2008/7/29 Christos Margiolas : >>> > 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 >>> >>> >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to >>> >> unsubscribe << >> >> >> >>>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe >>>> << >> >> > >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<