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

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

2006/8/21, Kees Jongenburger <kees.jongenburger at gmail.com>:
> On 8/21/06, Karoliina.T.Salminen at nokia.com
> <Karoliina.T.Salminen at nokia.com> wrote:
> > 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

I guess they would also like to know where those should be applied ;)

> 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.

Sounds exactly like dasher:
http://www.maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationCatalogWip#head-ff3915a32305bd527275defd8e2f618bc8e30bc7


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