Sometimes we have to clone ourselves 5 or 6 times to manage to do everything. It’s a kind of magic we rarely succeed, but sometimes we do 🙂
Between Akademy and bugfixes for the SC 4.5 release, I managed to get some work done on the Plasma Mobile front, and a quick video of it can be seen there:
Now there is a new kind of activity for managing widgets there, a new addition to the Desktop (that you normally use on normal computers) and the newspaper (designed for netbooks and big tablets)
This one, that is called mobile desktop, is explicitly tought for very small screens (in phisical size, pixel resolution has nothing to do with size!). It’s based on a big flicking scroll widget, just as the newspaper, because the main method of interaction if a touchscreen, but shows only 2 widgets per screen, (at their minimal size to still make sense)
If you scroll everything around no interaction with the widgets will happen, but if you tap one, it will get maximized, getting a size big enough to be really interacted.
The behaviour of the shell changed a bit as well, since it was quite difficult to hit empty areas to make the whole thing flip, now dragging the panel of the activities, pulls the whole screen, making everything rotate in a 3d way (it has also considerably been optimized for speed)
In the video you can also see the progress of the mobile status indicator summer of code, by Yuen.
wow, nice stuff, i like the new activity, it makes sense and seems to be simple to use, however, the flipping seems to be a little bit tricky.
thanks for the grat work!
yes, the flipping is still just an experiment, works already better than before but is still not perfect, however i have a couple of ideas on how to make it different
Nice!
For the first time I think Plasma Mobile looks promising. This might become something useful in the end. Keep up the good work!
incredible! i want to run it on …something!
Awesome work, I like it a lot how it looks and works. Much better than what I saw t on MeeGo netbook edition. Can’t wait to see further improvements to this.
Nice work, however there are two effects for activity switching, one being slide away with a small z-change and the other one being a 3d-rotate, resembling a n-sided cube. Is that intentional?
yes, it is intentional.
the 3d rotation is not activity switching rather that showing the “other side” of the same activity, that is the icon grid launcher.
the icons shown in the launcher then depend from the activity
When can I get that on my phone? 😉 And.. what phone do I have to buy?