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Subject:    TOM =?iso-8859-1?q?Vision
From:       Roger Larsson <roger.larsson () skelleftea ! mail ! telia ! com>
Date:       2003-05-24 0:32:49
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OK, it is late and I am tired. Anyway...

Problem:
	* The number of possible tasks are enormous!
	* Many of KDEs best features are hidden.

Solution:
	* Give the user reasonable subset.
	* Add good searching among all task descriptions (kio_slaves, servicemenues,
	applications, commands, howtos...)
	* This search function can be placed in minicli/desktop (I will try to do a
	mockup)
	* "How? "
	* A "How" search opens a _new_ window were it is possible to read the
	descriptions. Select one and press OK -> applicaton name is copied back to
	minicli to be able to run it with another user name and priority.




Problem:
	* Every user needs a different task subset.

Solution:
	* When the user first logs in (s)he is gets an "registration" page.

What kind of tasks do you daily perform?
 [] Office tasks (word processing, spread sheets)
 [] Graphic content creation (art, diagram, ...)
 [] Develop computer programs
 [] Have contact with others over internet
 [] - - -

This selections results select which tasks should be on the short list.
Each task has a priority, from the daily set select the ten highest.



Problem:
	* An users application usage patterns changes over time.

Solution:
	* There has to be a dynamic section - like recent tasks/documents


Problem:
	* Some tasks are performed so often that they have an assigned keyboard
	shortcut, but they are hard to find.
	* The user won't learn the name of the applications, he will be lost on a
	non TOM desktop.

Solution:
	* "flash" the application name, an d assigned shortcut if any on start.
	(no need to have it in the task description. :-)

/RogerL

-- 
Roger Larsson
Skellefteċ
Sweden
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