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Nokia N950 Running Plasma Active on Mer

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MeeGo community member Vgrade. who is involved with the Mer Core project, describes his experiences with adapting Plasma Active for ARM architecture and running in on top of Mer. Even though Plasma Active One is targeted for tablets, it runs as a usable UX on a Nokia N950 handset. Mer itself is an open, inclusive, meritocratically governed and openly developed Linux core, providing a mobile-optimised base distribution for use by device manufacturers. The Plasma Active team plans to focus on a handset UI in Plasma Active Three, which is scheduled for summer 2012.

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  1. 2011-11-08 4:03 pm
    aseigo

    While there are some proof-of-concept bits for handset UX, there aren’t any firm plans yet for when a handset optimized UX will emerge with similar maturity to the tablet UX. We certainly haven’t committed (to ourselves or externally) to delivering one for Plasma Active Three.

    That said, we are very open to people wanting to work on taking the existing UX, or creating news ones on top of the Plasma Active frameworks, and folding their efforts together with what we are working on.

    We are also looking into set top box possibilities.

    Other than that little bit of over-enthusiastic information in the story, we’re all very please to see as Plasma Active ends up appearing on one device after another. Several Tegra 2 based tablets were brought up successfully in the past weeks, there is a Beagle Board image and now this .. rocking ;)

    • 2011-11-08 4:15 pm
      Thom Holwerda

      Despite the rocky start and the issues some people have with Kwin, stuff like this really showcases how powerful KDE4 really is. THIS is the reason I really want to get cracking with Martin Gräßlin and get my Kwin issues sorted out ;) .

    • 2011-11-08 4:58 pm
      shmerl

      Thanks, it’s good then to clarify that a bit on the announcement page ( http://kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one ) to make it more clear that it’s not yet fully decided:

      Plasma Active Three will be another significant release where we will be focusing on security challenges and devices to keep your data safe and under your control. With release Three, we will begin implementing additional device form factors such as settop boxes or handhelds.

      Edited 2011-11-08 17:01 UTC

    • 2011-11-09 9:25 pm
      No it isnt

      Oh. I’d love to see KDE and Plasma Active on the Asus Transformer. It’s a Tegra 2 based device.

  2. 2011-11-08 4:37 pm
    Hiev

    Does it work with an accelerometer?

  3. 2011-11-08 9:41 pm
    Sodki

    I hate KDE’s interface since KDE 1 and I loathe it everytime I have to come near a computer that has it.

    On the other hand, I love KDE’s and Qt’s technology. This is a fine example of a great piece of software.