KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes [LWN.net]

KDE e.V., the non-profit organization behind the KDE desktop environment, has put out a press release about the just-completed Akademy conference. The release is subtitled "Pushing for Elegance and the Mobile Space" and features an overview of the conference that was held in Tampere, Finland June 3-10. "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."

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KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes

Posted Jul 16, 2010 22:18 UTC (Fri) by xxiao (guest, #9631) [Link] (4 responses)

KDE was so heavy, is it really possible for mobile?
Switched to gnome 4 years ago and never tried KDE since.

KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes

Posted Jul 16, 2010 22:30 UTC (Fri) by aseigo (guest, #18394) [Link] (3 responses)

As evidenced by the fact that Kontact Mobile and Plasma Mobile are running very well on the N900 ... yes, it is not only possible but we are succeeding at doing so.

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!

KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes

Posted Jul 17, 2010 4:39 UTC (Sat) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498) [Link] (1 responses)

Is there any hope for Plasma/KDE mobile running on Android devices. I for one wouldn't mind a nice free software replacement for Sense, Blur, TouchWiz, etc. Is the android port of Qt robust enough to even begin to support this?

KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes

Posted Jul 27, 2010 6:04 UTC (Tue) by bzk (guest, #69256) [Link]

I believe the android qt port is still at highly experimental stage.

KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes

Posted Jul 17, 2010 7:35 UTC (Sat) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

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.

KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes

Posted Jul 19, 2010 5:51 UTC (Mon) by cosbounre (guest, #69135) [Link] (3 responses)

KDE was awesome with the 3.5 version. Then they broke it all with 4.0. So, now I'm using Nautilus (the same horrible/error file manager), which just deleted/moved my files over to Windoze.

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.

KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes

Posted Jul 19, 2010 18:40 UTC (Mon) by oblio (guest, #33465) [Link]

I'd really want a "report" button right now. Go away, troll!
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

Posted Jul 27, 2010 4:16 UTC (Tue) by bzk (guest, #69256) [Link]

Let's jump directly to the point you are willing to go : and all of them are Nazi.

Now we can move on.

KDE's flagship conference Akademy Concludes

Posted Jul 31, 2010 21:13 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

So, now I'm using Nautilus
...
Linux is really bad software run by idiots.

When you insult yourself by accident, is it still self-deprecation?