{"id":4929,"date":"2011-07-25T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T15:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/index.php\/Software\/Contouring_resources"},"modified":"2011-07-25T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T15:32:49","slug":"contouring_resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/contouring_resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Contouring resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately I haven&#8217;t blogged since a llloong time, my fault \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>But this doesn&#8217;t mean the things in Plasma land aren&#8217;t moving, au contraire! Last months I have been busy as hell with the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.kde.org\/Plasma\/Active\/Contour\">Contour<\/a> project, and the results are starting to became evident.<\/p>\n<p>A quite big amount of progress has been made on several fronts: the user interface, the infrastructure of the Plasma mobile shell and what is even down in the stack from it, like Nepomuk and the KDE mobile profile<\/p>\n<p>Also on the system integration front things have changed a lot. Admittedly trying out the KDE mobile software on an actual device has always been a bit of a voodoo operation, but now there are two ready to go booting pendrive images, for MeeGo and OpenSuse, together of course always updated package repositories (further information on the Plasma Active <a href=\"http:\/\/community.kde.org\/Plasma\/Active\">wiki<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I now want to show, as often as possible short videos of the User Interface of Contour, a little teaser for each notable feature.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OZ1OOVt7rxM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/get\/Notmart-ContourActivityScreenJuly2011167.ogv\">OGG version.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First thing first, the screen the user sees when the tablet is turned on: an usual workspace with a wallpaper&#8230; it has icons.. (and eventually widgets)<\/p>\n<p>but, interaction-wide you see that has some improvements for small\/medium touch screens: icons are not individual, but categorized in boxes (documents, music, contacts&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>Second, everything is always aligned to a grid, making the composition always &#8220;look good&#8221; and impossible for those boxes to overlap, but still possible to drag them around to give a personal organization that helps your spatial memory.<\/p>\n<p>And the last important characteristic is behind the scenes: that&#8217;s not a view on some folder as the desktops used to be: but it&#8217;s all data coming from Nepomuk, meaning that can be any type of what in Nepomuk is a &#8220;Resource&#8221;, so not only a file but also more abstract data like a contact, an email or a geographical location.<\/p>\n<p>Everything that you see there are resources that have been connected to the activity, so each one will show a different list of resources (this could also make possible in the future for instance to show those activity resources as default in a file open dialog for instance)<\/p>\n<p>How those resources can be connected to activities.. material for the next video \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested to have a more in depth look at the Contour UX and you will be at the Desktop summit in Berlin, you can stop by at <a href=\"https:\/\/desktopsummit.org\/program\/sessions\/new-activity-based-mobile-user-interface-plasma-and-nepomuk\">this talk<\/a> :p<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/images\/DS2011banner.png\" alt=\"Desktop summit\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately I haven&#8217;t blogged since a llloong time, my fault \ud83d\ude09 But this doesn&#8217;t mean the things in Plasma land aren&#8217;t moving, au contraire! 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