KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes
Using KDE software on mobile devices was another big subject of discussion and coding. The KDE community is very interested in providing their software for mobile platforms such as MeeGo. During this Akademy, work continued on making Akonadi (and in extension the Kontact Groupware Suite) and the Plasma user interface library available on MeeGo. Like the KDE community, MeeGo aims to support a full spectrum of devices in terms of formfactor and performance. Kontact Mobile provides the most scalable and powerful groupware client currently available for mobile devices, while the Plasma universal canvas provides the most mature high-level, extensible and brandable toolkit for mobile devices that are using Qt. During Akademy, the first phone call using prototype Plasma mobile phone shell was made."
Posted Jul 16, 2010 22:18 UTC (Fri)
by xxiao (guest, #9631)
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Posted Jul 16, 2010 22:30 UTC (Fri)
by aseigo (guest, #18394)
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One of the reasons we have been working to clarify what "KDE" means is highlighted in your comment. When you say "KDE was so heavy" ... what do you mean exactly by "KDE"? The desktop shell? Specific applications? The development platform?
Turns out that the development platform isn't too heavy at all, and works very well on devices with these form factors.
The desktop shell, designed for laptops and desktops, doesn't work on these devices. Thanks to Plasma, though, we get to use 95%+ of the code that went into making Plasma Desktop and create a new UI that does work on these devices.
Same thing with Kontact .. they put a new UI on top of Akonadi and it works fantastically.
So these days there is no "KDE" in terms of a single software product. Some KDE apps are too heavy for mobile, but many are not .. particularly the ones that are being designed specifically for mobile on top of the existing development platform. What's shocking about that development is that they share the majority of their code with the desktop versions!
Posted Jul 17, 2010 4:39 UTC (Sat)
by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498)
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Posted Jul 27, 2010 6:04 UTC (Tue)
by bzk (guest, #69256)
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Posted Jul 17, 2010 7:35 UTC (Sat)
by halla (subscriber, #14185)
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The mobile version of KOffice for the N900, FreOffice, might even have more users than the regular desktop version has at the moment. It's a pretty amazing project, developed inside KDE's svn repository hand in hand with regular KOffice, and it needs about half of the KDE libraries to run, and it runs very well.
Posted Jul 19, 2010 5:51 UTC (Mon)
by cosbounre (guest, #69135)
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What a mess you Linux idiots cannot get straight. I believe GNOME is BROKEN BY DESIGN (Miguel De Icaza) and I filed bug reports (literally) 3 years ago. Linux is really bad software run by idiots.
Posted Jul 19, 2010 18:40 UTC (Mon)
by oblio (guest, #33465)
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Posted Jul 27, 2010 4:16 UTC (Tue)
by bzk (guest, #69256)
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Now we can move on.
Posted Jul 31, 2010 21:13 UTC (Sat)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Linux is really bad software run by idiots.
KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes
Switched to gnome 4 years ago and never tried KDE since.
KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes
KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes
KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes
KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes
KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes
KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes
Ok, they did something stupid. At least they're trying to fix it, and they don't owe you anything. Or me, for that matter.
KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes
KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes
So, now I'm using Nautilus
When you insult yourself by accident, is it still self-deprecation?