Plasma/Workspace Sprint/Games/SpeedBoatRaw
Team 1
Anchors
Boat is an ocean liner... named Titanic and about to hit and iceberg Connecting to random network is cumbersome Playing media on other devices is cumbersome (e.g. youtube on tablet -> TV) Multi-screen setup is dodgy (e.g. Carla with her docking station, Raj plugging a beamer to his laptop) Record notes about hundreds of contacts Travelling: Clock has "old" timezone PDF Handling is limited to viewing Carla need apps to look awesome to "show off" Saving state cluster: * Difficult to maintain a list of stuff to look at later * Quickly capturing ideas * Need the very same situation I left before shutting down Syncing cluster: * Hard to sync contacts between laptop and phone * No easy way to collect and sync documents between devices * Transfering docs across devices * Share docs/infos with my study group * Organizing data is a pain * Organize resources by study topics Hard to stay in touch with friends Want to find new friends among my hostel, online being socially awkward Too many clicks for getting to chat with friends Separating lives cluster: * Want to separate work/study from fun/porn * Hide nasty stuff from my girlfriend Want to share different info with different groups of people No anon mode for my hourly wank Need a way to monitor my budget Just not interested, OK with Microsoft Windows almost for free (as a student) It is too difficult to install the language package Multi-language spell checking Spell checking per contact Don't know how to install ppt Office for homework Compatibility with MS ecosystem
Observers Notes
Sharing data with devices and people: same or different? Developers are still focussing on their specialist areas (e.g. IM important for Telepathy people) Lots of talk/aruments about boats, sebas didn't care, metaphore? Wifi connection: simple vs powerful Importance of social networking Is social networking our job? Carla is "forced" to use KDE, she has quite some money: why not pay for a Mac or Windows? We often miss the last mile of polishing and sometimes the first
Team 2
Anchors
Tanker carrying lots of containers, with happy people on top Too heavy cluster: * Too big for Carla's mobile * Slows down Raj old hardware Network dependency cluster: * Not too useful without internet connection * On network loss, the problem is poorly explained (error messages) Poor notification integration with webapps, skype, many weird apps Wants easier party photo upload to Facebook Carla cannot synchronize her iPhone with the workspace Poor support for video calls with the family Carla's friends are on other OS and cannot communicate Data sharing cluster: * Hard to share data * Raj wants to good ways to pull resources wallpapers/icons/... Settings cluster: * Carla doesn't feel in control of her machine * Carla has difficulties moving data and settings when replacing devices * System settings categories are broken * Carla's laptop does not automatically configure itself when docked * Wants a lot of customization but UI scattered Installation cluster: * Hard multimedia integration: codecs install * Carla is afraid of breaking the machine by installing software * Computer games won't work
Observers Notes
=== Identifying Anchors ===
-Quite a few doubts of how the game works
-Identified that carla has a problem with hardware support (Iphone, screens)
-It seems that there is some difficulties on detecting problems (specially Raj)
==== GROUPS ====
-The problems from the underlaying system were instantly identified
-The rest of the group took some more time but quite quickly overall
-Difficult to install and discover application, people is even afraid of doing that
(general agreement)
Sharing group:
-We need a way of distributing resources (scripts, wallpapers, etc).
-Must be open :)
-SLC should offer a way of integrating it in within the app
-Be able to setup a local "kde-apps" to share installed resources
System Settings:
-Every body said "Well all sticky notes is just bitching" but all of
them agreed that it is a completely mess.
-Mouse theme location is used as an example, where to put it? it seems
to be some agreement that it should be under Appearance, and 1 person is on
the idea that we should have only 1 appearance.
-Everybody uses the search in system settings
-Some kind of agreement that the place is not really important as long as it
is consistent.
Poor Internet connection:
-Implement in all application context and activity awareness
-Some people make funny faces when activity is mentioned
-There is a moment where everybody agrees on "Wait, but they are internet apps
maybe they should not work with internet"
-People realize that maybe the problem is notifying the user that internet is off and help the user to understand / fix that.
-A new anchor is added because everybody agrees that nevertheless we need to notify network availability right.
-Initial topic is brought again, and everybody agrees that being able to work offline
is important for many applications such KMail, AddressBooK etc while not so important
for twitter.
Codec Installation:
-Everybody agrees instantly that it is a problem
-Some technical discussion happen, everybody agrees that we should try to fix this *again.
Performance:
-Nepomuk is mentioned, a few laugh
-Akonadi is mentioned, all laugh
-Wayland is mentioned, all smile expecting something from it.