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Subject: Re: Task Proposal: Support more (touch) devices
From: martin brook <martin.brook100 () googlemail ! com>
Date: 2012-01-20 11:29:33
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Samuel Hi,
Welcome aboard.
Sounds like your work could take Plasma Active to a few more devices, are
you currently building for any low cost ARM tablets?
BR
vgrade
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Samuel Stirtzel <s.stirtzel@googlemail.com
> wrote:
> Hi I'm new to KDE / Plasma Active development,
> (Usually I do cross platform Qt development).
>
> As Plasma Active seems to be _the next generation touch user
> interface_ I'm quite interested in the development process.
>
> 2012/1/19 martin brook <martin.brook100@googlemail.com>:
> > User Story
> >
> > =======
> >
> >
> > 1. A developer get interested in the project and works on hip PC to
> develop
> > new app/utility/core functionality but has a limited number of expensive
> > devices to deploy and test on.
> >
> > 2. A user sees a blog post, youtube video of Plasma Active and thinks he
> > would like to use it, again he is limited to a couple of devices
> >
> >
> > Why this is important
> >
> > =============
> >
> >
> > Currently we only have a couple of touch devices supported slowing the
> rate
> > of adoption by developers and users. More devices will bring developers
> and
> > users to the project
>
> It could be an option to port Plasma Active to the OpenEmbedded /
> Yocto Project [see 1 & 2]
> So it is possible to use it on any device supported there.
> Also Plasma Active would be easily accessible to development
> communities of Beagleboard, Pandaboard, Gumstix Overo, N900 (with
> Angstrom / SHR), OpenPandora, Neo Freerunner and others.
>
> About my concern: I write software for the Gumstix Overo development
> board (ARMv7) and I would love to see Plasma Active on this kind of
> hardware.
> I'd like to volunteer to help porting, and I already started but I
> wasn't involved in the development of Plasma Active so far.
> Currently I'm stuck with porting the dependencies of Plasma Active,
> since KDE.org is confusing me with svn and git meshing.
>
>
> [1 OpenEmbedded]
> Openembedded is a build framework that creates individual distributions
> for you.
> see:
> http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Main_Page
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEmbedded
>
> [2 Yocto Project]
> Yocto Project is the umbrella project for the build Systems
> OpenEmbedded and Poky.
> see:
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/
>
>
>
> Feel free to contact me in this matter.
>
> --
> Regards
> Samuel
>
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Samuel Hi,<div><br></div><div>Welcome aboard.</div><div><br></div><div>Sounds like \
your work could take Plasma Active to a few more devices, are you currently building \
for any low cost ARM tablets?</div><div><br></div><div> \
BR</div><div><br></div><div>vgrade</div><div><br></div><div><div \
class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Samuel Stirtzel <span \
dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s.stirtzel@googlemail.com">s.stirtzel@googlemail.com</a>></span> \
wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px \
#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi I'm new to KDE / Plasma Active development,<br> \
(Usually I do cross platform Qt development).<br> <br>
As Plasma Active seems to be _the next generation touch user<br>
interface_ I'm quite interested in the development process.<br>
<br>
2012/1/19 martin brook <<a \
href="mailto:martin.brook100@googlemail.com">martin.brook100@googlemail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> User Story<br>
><br>
> =======<br>
><br>
><br>
> 1. A developer get interested in the project and works on hip PC to develop<br>
> new app/utility/core functionality but has a limited number of expensive<br>
> devices to deploy and test on.<br>
><br>
> 2. A user sees a blog post, youtube video of Plasma Active and thinks he<br>
> would like to use it, again he is limited to a couple of devices<br>
><br>
><br>
> Why this is important<br>
><br>
> =============<br>
><br>
><br>
> Currently we only have a couple of touch devices supported slowing the rate<br>
> of adoption by developers and users. More devices will bring developers and<br>
> users to the project<br>
<br>
</div>It could be an option to port Plasma Active to the OpenEmbedded /<br>
Yocto Project [see 1 & 2]<br>
So it is possible to use it on any device supported there.<br>
Also Plasma Active would be easily accessible to development<br>
communities of Beagleboard, Pandaboard, Gumstix Overo, N900 (with<br>
Angstrom / SHR), OpenPandora, Neo Freerunner and others.<br>
<br>
About my concern: I write software for the Gumstix Overo development<br>
board (ARMv7) and I would love to see Plasma Active on this kind of<br>
hardware.<br>
I'd like to volunteer to help porting, and I already started but I<br>
wasn't involved in the development of Plasma Active so far.<br>
Currently I'm stuck with porting the dependencies of Plasma Active,<br>
since KDE.org is confusing me with svn and git meshing.<br>
<br>
<br>
[1 OpenEmbedded]<br>
Openembedded is a build framework that creates individual distributions for you.<br>
see:<br>
<a href="http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Main_Page" \
target="_blank">http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Main_Page</a><br> <a \
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEmbedded" \
target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEmbedded</a><br> <br>
[2 Yocto Project]<br>
Yocto Project is the umbrella project for the build Systems<br>
OpenEmbedded and Poky.<br>
see:<br>
<a href="http://www.yoctoproject.org/" \
target="_blank">http://www.yoctoproject.org/</a><br> <br>
<br>
<br>
Feel free to contact me in this matter.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Regards<br>
Samuel<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div>
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