KDE Plasma Active Marco Martin

Linux and UX Desktop: GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE... Community controlled projects Open governance But, how are things on mobile?

Apples and robots Landscape: Apple and Android Linux: Android, Hildon, MeeGoTouch Company controlled development No possibility for individuals to get directly involved

Open mobile stack We need a mobile stack completely open, user centered and with a compelling UX desing

Open access To devices (no lock in) To source code Open for people and companies to join Android matches only partially

Development Developed in the open Public read/write repo Open governance

Derivatives Free to modify Make own product To redistribute To fork To Un-fork

Community Self sustaining Direct involvement in decision making Meritoctatic process

Device spectrum Device spectrum

First release: 9/10/11 Based on KDE technologies, first release on MeeGo and Balsam/openSuse In progress: Mer image, Arm devices

Plasma Active Touch friendly UI Free software stack Write once, deploy everywhere Contour UI: Based upon the concept of Activities Coherent display/management of files, contacts, bookmarks etc In an unique semantic database

Share, Like, Connect Ubiquitous options Built around social networks Extendable via scripted plugins

Apps

Apps Logic/presentation separation Backend is Qt/C++ UI is in QML+Javascript Easy to change import QtQuick 1.0 import org.kde.plasma.core 0.1 as PlasmaCore   Item { width: 200 height: 300 Text { id: first text: i18n("1st line") anchors { top: parent.top; left: parent.left; right: parent.right; } id: second text: i18n("2nd line") top: first.bottom; bottom: parent.bottom;

Simplest case: QML only desktop widget Architecture independent Simple package user installable Zip with a standard filesystem Simple IDE to create them: plasmate

Sources import QtQuick 1.0 import org.kde.plasma.core 0.1 as PlasmaCore Item { id: page; PlasmaCore.DataSource { id: dataSource engine: "time" connectedSources: ["Local"] interval: 500 } Row { Text {text: “Time is”} Text { text: dataSource.data['Local']['Time'] font.pointSize: 22

Device specific UI

Opportunities Development is driven by designers to make an appealing experience More and more devices are being supported Every individual, every company, every free software project is welcome to join Sustainable ecosystem for free software on devices

Get involved Mailing list: active@kde.org IRC: #active su freenode Wiki: http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active

Thank you! ? Questions?