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Subject:    Re: [Kde-maemo] Transform list to "mobile"? (Re: KDE Platform
From:       Kevin Ottens <ervin () kde ! org>
Date:       2010-04-12 11:13:45
Message-ID: 201004121313.50903.ervin () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 9 March 2010 11:17:30 Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 24. Februar 2010 16:30:31 schrieb Kevin Ottens:
> > Hello Mae^WMeego interested people[*],
> > 
> > [*] I knew I should have asked for a kde-mobile list. ;-)
> 
> Seriously should be rename this list to something else that is more
> appropriate?

Well, the list is young enough to maybe make that still worthwhile. Although 
I'm generally not utterly happy to do this kind of things (you've to move the 
subscribed people around, and so on).
 
> Candiate would be "kde-mobile", though we could even try to be more
> specific, because nettops, netbooks and laptops are all mobile devices,
> but we will focus on the smaller end I think.

Actually I'd say that we won't be focusing only on the smaller end. That's 
what I like about MeeGo actually, it at last assesses that the situation is 
about a spectrum of devices of varying power and size, and not about a 
handheld/not-handheld dichotomy and you have to sort the devices in there.

I'd like our effort to be in the same spirit. And actually the plan I mailed 
is in this spirit, since we're aiming for several type of profiles.

> Also, something like the kPad [**] will not be mobile but a sofa like
> device probably with a touch screen and acceleration sensor.
> "kde-handhelds",
> "kde-touchy-feeling-not-really-meant-as-serious-suggestion"? ;)

Actually here you're more focusing on the user interaction model. Which I 
think falls into the efforts of each of our subcommunities (Plasma and PIM 
being spearheading there). Here I'd like us to focus on:
 a) making sure our platform is ready for the wide spectrum of devices and can 
be tailored easily by ODM (not butchered like you'd need to today)
 b) synchronizing the different subcommunities interested in addressing those 
devices (requires knowing which user interaction are available, but really the 
work of doing them is not this list job IMO).

So really, I see here as the common ground for the platform. Not the "let's 
decide and make the UXs" forum.

Note that I don't feel that was your idea, but used the opportunity to make it 
clear (and hence why I don't think the name of the list should have anything 
to do with what's available on the device for the user interaction, we got 
plasma-devel covering that already).

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

KDAB - proud patron of KDE, http://www.kdab.com

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