Last week I was among many other KDE fellow hackers at the Workspace sprint in Pineda de Mar, It was a really awesome location (and company, of course;).<\/p>\n
But is not all fun and play: what we have produced<\/em> while there? What it’s a bit different from other times, is that it wasn’t a coding sprint, but rather was a very needed moment of taking a step back and reflect about the future.<\/em><\/p>\n We are in a transition period from a technological point of view: Qt5 is coming and the KDE frameworks effort is helping to redefine the whole developer story around our tecnology… but this is another story \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n This is the ideal moment to see where we are now in term of what we offer to the user, and how the whole workspace is perceievd as a whole. The first important thing is indeed exactly realizing and knowing where we are now, having a big picture from different sides.<\/p>\n At this point we can have a defined and realistic vision on where the workspace should head in the next years, and how to get there.<\/p>\n To get to this comprehension on where we are and were we want to go we are starting to use several classic tecniques of design, such as personas<\/a> (hello Carla and Raj) and role games<\/a> that help to identify problems (speed boat) and current or future features (Product tree), of which Sebastian<\/a> and Kevin<\/a> already explained it in length.<\/p>\n Looking at the problems of the boats and the Product tree, among the other things two stick out: Activities are a feature that really stands out of the pack: nobody else has it, but in order to be really a game changer has to be expanded a lot and be way more “natural” to use.<\/p>\n Also, workflows that spread across multiple devices are becoming more and more common (they are very important for Carla and Raj); our device spectrum effort is the right thing to do, but has to be more integrated in the core development process of everything we do as a community, and has to look<\/em> more integrated (communication and marketing goals).<\/p>\n Other wiki pages and documentation on what has been going on those days will come up over the next few days: we’ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week I was among many other KDE fellow hackers at the Workspace sprint in Pineda de Mar, It was a really awesome location (and company, of course;). But is not all fun and play: what we have produced while there? What it’s a bit different from other times, is that it wasn’t a coding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,2,10,7,24,25],"class_list":["post-5944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blabla","tag-active","tag-kde","tag-kde4","tag-plasma","tag-vision","tag-workspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}