Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME [LWN.net]

Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

Posted Aug 11, 2012 15:18 UTC (Sat) by krake (subscriber, #55996)
In reply to: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME by Cyberax
Parent article: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

"with all the Plasma stuff explicitly targeting tablets"

Plasma is not targetting any specific form factor or device in particular.
On the contrary, it was created to enable KDE workspaces to be deployed on very different form factors and devices and still share as much code as possible.

The sole fact that work on Plasma started way earlier than any tablet appearing on the consumer scene should make it obvious that is cannot be "explicitly targeting tablets"

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Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

Posted Aug 13, 2012 12:31 UTC (Mon) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

He's not saying that Plasma targets tablets; he's just talking about the Plasma stuff that does, ie. Plasma Active which has had a fair bit of press recently.

Think about the sentence if it were "with software explicitly targeting tablets" - that's not saying that all software targets tablets.

Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

Posted Aug 13, 2012 15:08 UTC (Mon) by krake (subscriber, #55996) [Link]

Ah, I see.

"gone crazy" and "all the Plasma stuff" threw me off then.
The tablet specific code is only about 5% of the Plasma code base (e.g. see http://lwn.net/Articles/504865/)