Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ux (89 mails)

["Mohammad Bhuyan" <nuxser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rajko & Martin, Thanks for welcoming me.

I am here to participate and do my part whatever way I can.

I am aware of the ongoing improvement work and I am learning more
about them so that I can participate.

At this stage I am using OpenSUSE 10.2 on my laptop. My desktop box is
going to be 10.2 (which was supposed to be by now :P ). Before opening
my mouth I want to see 10.3 (virtualization?) in action so that I know
whats the latest state.

Should a user expect major changes in desktop experience on 10.3 from 10.2?

Software Portal / Application Manager is really a cool concept. Once
it works and well integrated into desktop workflow, this is going to
remove the major pain of desktop management. I can't wait to see it
working.

As I said, I am yet to know more to make useful comment. Here are some
thoughts that may/may not make sense.

As our desktops are more connected than ever, it is a frequent
practice of an application to do something over the net and then ask
for user notification/intervention. Common example being notifying
availability of updates, email etc. And with Googles model of online
apps we are yet to see integrated model of desktop/online computing.
As a result our system tray/panel is becoming a forest of icons with
every application setting-up/registering its own method of doing
online services integration.

So I was thinking that it could be a good idea to develop an
architecture where a single system component (lets call it System
Agent) will provide a framework for applications to register it applet
modules that will do the application specific online bits. The system
agent will be presented in the Desktop UI in a clean and simple manner
(a single icon in system tray) and the applications will provide a
mostly uniform (yet application specific) event notification / user
intervention request to the user. This system will also help the
underlying OS to notify / interact to the user. So starting from
daemons, kernel modules, email arrival, software update ... any event
/ notification communicated to user through a defined framework and
hence most importantly with a consistent Look & Feel.

The initial idea came to my mind as part of the Software Portal /
Application Manager concept where I guess there would be an agent in
my system which will check & notify me of availability of updates  /
new arrival. Then I thought why not a generic framework what more apps
can use and provide a consistent look & feel.

I am not sure if I could explain what I tried to. Please comment so I
can clarify.

I wanted to add more bits regarding some UI issues. I will take it slow :D.
Also I will cover some in my other email in reply to Silviu.

Regards,

Mohammad
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