New Pandora Ui

[mazza558]

Since the Pandora has a touchscreen, why not take advantage of that?

Here's a very quick mockup of what would be pretty nice to use with the touchscreen - a combination of a traditional desktop and a menu more at home on a portable device.

The normal Pandora Desktop (obviously with any background - this is just an example)
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/29948/Pandora%20Mockup/UI1.bmp

When the menu button is clicked/touched/selected
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/29948/Pandora%20Mockup/UI3.bmp

When the "games" option is selected, and the user has decided to do a search for Pidgin instead...
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/29948/Pandora%20Mockup/UI2.bmp

 

[mali]

Not bad
You could search for Maemo vids on youtube for an example of a touch based GUI, too.

 

[christo930]

Since the Pandora has a touchscreen, why not take advantage of that?

Here's a very quick mockup of what would be pretty nice to use with the touchscreen - a combination of a traditional desktop and a menu more at home on a portable device.

The normal Pandora Desktop (obviously with any background - this is just an example)
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/29948/Pandora%20Mockup/UI1.bmp

When the menu button is clicked/touched/selected
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/29948/Pandora%20Mockup/UI3.bmp

When the "games" option is selected, and the user has decided to do a search for Pidgin instead...
https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/29948/Pandora%20Mockup/UI2.bmp



Would they end up being too small given the high resolution and the small screen size? You have a lot of pixels to use, but each pixel is so small it's hard to see. For example, I don't think an 8x8 or 9x9 font would be very readable on the screen.

 

[Olexxy]

Why are you mentioning sizes ? Pictures here are not detailing font sizes.. A picture is a picture, resolution of text (if text used) to get to this end result is not in the scope of this post I think...

 

[Sphinxter]

Too windows like.

 

[adamorjames]

Too windows like.

Want the panel at the top? Oh wait... too Mac-like... :lol:

 

[viridior]

Might not be practical, but wouldn't the Pandora be a great platform to develop a small-light weight 3D window-manager using the OPENGL ES 2.0 spec? I've always wanted a simple, 3D interface, that didn't have too much eye-candy, but innovative using 3D graphics. I'm ignorant about how much overhead at minimum would be required, but just an idea...

 

[PoisonedV]

Too windows like.

What the hell do you mean? KDE can have that exact same configuration, too

 

[mali]

off topic but cool non the less:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaBJb8nkXac

 

[hells_dark]

Well, i prefer the Scale idea/design. And Scale is not just a mockup.

 

[Karel Jansens]

off topic but cool non the less:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaBJb8nkXac


You do know that the Internet Tablet School folded, don't you? Krisse, its maintainer, basically sees no more future in Nokia's tablets. Besides, LCARS is just a skin, the User Interface remains as crappy as the original.

 

[mali]

off topic but cool non the less:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaBJb8nkXac


You do know that the Internet Tablet School folded, don't you? Krisse, its maintainer, basically sees no more future in Nokia's tablets. Besides, LCARS is just a skin, the User Interface remains as crappy as the original.

:lol:
I've counted the seconds
There is no future, Pandora is the future But the LCARS PADD is cool none the less, you must admit.

 

[christo930]

Why are you mentioning sizes ? Pictures here are not detailing font sizes.. A picture is a picture, resolution of text (if text used) to get to this end result is not in the scope of this post I think...

Because the pictures would ultimately suffer the same problem. Remember, the icon has to big enough to be able to touch with your finger without your finger touching the one next to it. In other words, while I think your proposed UI looks OK, I think it would be difficult to implement due to screen size. I might turn out to be wrong, but it's still something to consider.

Chris

Might not be practical, but wouldn't the Pandora be a great platform to develop a small-light weight 3D window-manager using the OPENGL ES 2.0 spec? I've always wanted a simple, 3D interface, that didn't have too much eye-candy, but innovative using 3D graphics. I'm ignorant about how much overhead at minimum would be required, but just an idea...

I think the new linux 3d interface actually makes sense and adds to the user experience without just being eye candy. I really like the idea that your desktop is a cube and each side of the cube can be a separate desktop and being able to rotate the cube in real time to see what's going on on the other screens is a really good implementation. The Aero Windows interface sux and is nothing but eye candy adding nothing useful while taxing system resources. I disabled pretty much every aspect of Aero so that my desktop looks like Windows 2k (not XP) which really frees up resources for stuff I WANT, not what Microsoft thinks I might like. As a matter of fact, if I could find the drivers for my machine, I would format the hard disk and install windows 2000 or XP, and probably have a MUCH faster machine for doing it without loosing anything.

 

[Olexxy]

Ok, for me the main button sizes seemed ok (reducing the bmp picture size by 2 in ff gives almost the same size as the real one), but it's true that others like the back or worse the search icones seem too small indeed (however I don't plan on touching the screen all the time with my fingers, will probably use the provided stylus, as I do on my DS lite).
Nice idea though, but I think tweaking the gmenu presented in the video by ED should already give a good interface imo

 

[thoughtcriminal]

I like it. Planning on building it, or is it just an idea?

 

[giovanni]

I really like your GUI mazza558.
I think it should be simple and useful enough.
I would only add the possibility to add some icons on the Desktop like in Windows.
OK for the 3D but... now i can't realize if it will be different having a Pandora under my hands... I don't think that a rotating cube is useful... :unsure: ... It is a problem of opinion...
However this skin is beautiful.
Did you already write some code?

 

[bennyboy]

Looks pretty nice for a mock up, but there seems to be a lot of wasted space when the menu and programs list are opened, I think it would be better if that filled the screen, or could at least be expanded.

 

[Sphinxter]

Too windows like.

What the hell do you mean? KDE can have that exact same configuration, too


KDE sucks too.

 

[PoisonedV]

Too windows like.

What the hell do you mean? KDE can have that exact same configuration, too


KDE sucks too.

what the hell does that have to do with this? the point is "windows like" is an idiotic thing to say

 

[joa]

Too windows like.

What the hell do you mean? KDE can have that exact same configuration, too


KDE sucks too.


Sphinxter, Rather that spouting "one liner" BS, why don't you come up with something relevant