Re: Mockups and stuff

On 3/13/06, Tomas Frydrych <tf@o-hand.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> I *really* like that interface, but I would hope that there would be
> some UI standartisation over the OLPC project as whole; I have no idea
> how they might decide to tackle it

Neither have I and their wikis don't say anything about that. So i
went ahead ...

> (hopefully not by designing a whole
> app framework as Nokia did, as that requires to make and maintain yet
> another port.)

Re-using parts of nokias stuff (and matchbox) has been discussed on
their mailing list[1]. Chris Blizzard told me on irc that they
wouldn't be running gnome (e.g. nautilus) on the device, rather just
take what fits.

> If you would be willing to pursue this whole thing on the
> OLPC list, etc., on our behalf, it would be much appreciated.

I have subscribe myself to the ML and posted my ideas (even if it
might just be a trigger for their usability gurus to join in and tell
me it's crap and what abiword should look+work like on the olpc ;-).

[1] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/olpc-software

Best,
Rob
Received on Mon Mar 13 11:53:04 2006