Semantic Desktop
I'm very happy about this project (even not being working on it), because I was always worried about usability and how easy our desktop is for the new users to learn and to use it correctly. Making the desktop more semantic-driven is really good.
The idea of this project is good, but I think we need to discuss and deeply think about what we are doing, otherwise we may fail on creating really "semantic" interfaces. Why I say that? Because I have seen Kat. It may have a good engine, but the interface is too complex for someone to really take benefit of it. I mean, I find it faster to look for things directly than by using Kat. That's why I think we need to discuss and really understand how this "semantic" interface should look like. I'm not saying I know the answer, I just know discussing is better to find the answer. I don't have many ideas on this right now, but let me see...
- The search program (KGenSe) must provide a search dialog as simple as possible. I mean something like one search line, a search button (if not dynamic searching) and one list to display the results.
- File dialogs. It would be very good if we could use the search program in the file dialog. I was thinking about something like the mockup below:
- The K Menu. This is valid not only for KDE but also for GNOME. The menu as we use currently doesn't fit for the number of applications we have. We need to think about a better way for launching applications (I don't know exactly what this would look like though).
- (... put your ideas here ...)