-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 04:38:45PM +0200, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: >> >On Friday 11 July 2008 12:53, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: >> >> Obviously, I'd like to get more feedback about this, because I'm >> >> planning to spend some time this summer working on new ideas for >> >> the desktop.
>They are only some ideas on my head by now, I'll try to translate them >into words, but in brief I try to merge these things I've seen >experienced: >- Teachers who don't have almost experience with computers or who have >begun to use them recently, trend to use only the web browser, and in >some cases, OpenOffice: so using a web ui might help (Yes, I remember >how most people disabled that option in the W'98 Desktop ten years ago) >- I don't want it to consume too many resources (karamba, gdesklets, etc >need to load a bunch of libraries, that slow down the Desktop starting >in low resource computers, and steal several megabytes of memory) >- I think that a tab-based desktop is more friendly for students or >teachers that a menu with several levels. >- I'd like to follow the freedesktop standard, so current .desktop files >should be used, not reinventing the weel >- Eye candy is also important, and I'm not good at doing it, but have a >very good designer working with me and there are more people in this >list ;-) >- I'd like it to be easy to switch between the traditional desktop and >the new one, for people who are already used to the office paradigm. >- It should be friendly with the desktop the user has: kde, gnome, xfce >or whatever else. > >More ideas are very welcome, now I'm just digging into previous >experiments or experiences and trying to get a good way to do it with >low resources use. I haven't advance too much up to now, I was waiting >my vacation time to do it :-) Thanks alot for the inspiring input, José! - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkh8jzMACgkQn7DbMsAkQLh2VwCdEXvDhGMUkP6cwI+DQ4sZYSLs zbsAn2CYownEgVcSgkc7C29IaDF3cHW8 =Ku25 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
