[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Future features for Maemo Desktop (TaskNavigator, Home, Status bar)?

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

On 8/21/06, Karoliina.T.Salminen at nokia.com
<Karoliina.T.Salminen at nokia.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for so far your replies, I have got a large number of feature
> proposals already.
>
> I am still accepting feature ideas to my roadmap, so please keep on
> posting them on the list. What would you wish from your dream-device in
> terms of UI framework (Task Navigator, Home, Status bar, Control panel)?
> Is there something you would like to have done better or something that
> you'd like to have to be done in a completely different way? Don't limit
> your imagination to how e.g. Task Navigator works now, but think how it
> would ideally work, without the limits? What would be ultra-cool there?

I think some kind of UI that acts like the mezzo interface with active corners
http://www.symphonyos.com/download/
(debian package who dares porting it?)

http://www.jdistro.com/mezzo/
(screen shots of the jdistro impl)



> Please think it also out of context of the current hardware, you can
> suggest also ideas that would be nice on the platform despite they
> aren't really realistic with the current 770 hardware. Any cool ideas
> are warmly welcome.
svg/pdf based display rendering, animations, alpha transparency

text input based on most common words, I have seen this about 10 years ago
the letters flow from right to left and the most common words/letters
appear in front of you, using the stylus it is still possible to move
up or down to follow a different input path and if the words appears
just as you liked you can move the stylus to the right to make the
letter appear faster. I will try to find a demo online.

greetings