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Convergence

Posted Feb 20, 2013 13:21 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Convergence by nye
Parent article: Ubuntu for phone to be previewed February 21

Sorry, I don't know KDE Plasma Active too well; I thought that the point of KDE Plasma was to unify all environments. If not so, I apologize.

Anyway I am not complaining, I am just amused that so many people think that convergence is the future, when successful platforms do just the opposite.


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Convergence

Posted Feb 20, 2013 22:38 UTC (Wed) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

unify on a technical level, sure. But the goal of Plasma since day one (and that is well over 4 years ago) has always been to be able to build completely optimized ui's for each formfactor, despite sharing most of the heavy lifting. It is very modular and the team claims that despite the completely different way of working, desktop, tablet and phone share 90+% code.

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