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[Mathieu Virbel <tito@xxxxxxxxxx>]

* Duncan McGreggor <duncan.mcgreggor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-08-16 15:27:59]:

> On 08/16/2010 02:16 PM, Mathieu Virbel wrote:
> >Hello everyone,
> >
> >I've been talking to Dunkan, and he ask me to write my concerns/wishes
> >for future development and user interaction. So here we are.
> >
> >I don't known exactly how canonical see the future of Maverick, but if
> >we want ubuntu usable for Tablet, lot of things must be done :)
> >
> >- Unity: under development ? what are the plan on that ? What feedback
> >   did you planned ?
> >
> >- Florence: i've read that florence is going to be the default keyboard
> >   for ubuntu. Am i wrong ? If yes, florence is really not usable.
> >   Really. Once good thing we must learn coming from our beloved Apple..
> >   When you open the keyboard, the application window is adjusted to not
> >   hide the focused text input. Maybe an integration between unity /
> >   florence is required here.
> >
> >- Florence: prediction. Boulabiar said that they are lot of patent on
> >   that, but still, be productive = introduce algorithm to enhance people
> >   writing. In PyMT, we've got spelling keyboard... and it's not
> >   sufficient. Library like enchant (mean aspell/ispell) is doing
> >   auto-correction and suggestion, but don't care about the context. And
> >   that's make thing just unusable.
> >
> >- Theming: having a touch-usable GTK theme is required. I don't remember
> >   where i got the microsoft document about UI, but they are designing UI
> >   like a button require 10mm height, spacing between elements should be
> >   7mm.. Whatever is the screen size. Your finger are not smaller if you
> >   increase your resolution :)
> >
> >- GTK: patch to add some new behavior ? Like list, it would be nice to
> >   remove that ugly scrollbar, and permit scroll just by touching.
> >
> >- Firefox plugin: ubuntu have already a plugin installed by default for
> >   firefox. Is it possible to enhance it ? Like adding scrolling with
> >   touch by default, better theming for tabs (specially the cross button
> >   to close a tab..)
> >
> >- All app: even if GTK is not ready for MT, it should be ok to do
> >   alternative UI for touch no ? One thing we've learn with PyMT is that
> >   classical UI is really not good for touch (for eg: Rhythmbox can b
> >   enhanced to add plugin for custom touch UI)
> >
> >It's just some ideas. Feel free to comment !
> >
> >--
> >Mathieu
> >http://pymt.eu/
> >http://movid.org/
> 
> Thanks, Mathieu!
> 
> I will be updating our UDS-N brainstorming plans with these notes.
> 
> As for the MS document, perhaps John Lea can provide us with a link;
> I believe he mentioned that paper to me last week at our MT sprint.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> d


All the links are at the end of this blog post :
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1071

Mathieu