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Subject:    [kde-promo] 2nd draft Plasma Active 3 announcement
From:       Sebastian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FCgler?= <sebas () kde ! org>
Date:       2012-10-03 21:34:43
Message-ID: 149942923.WZTUxPEPkX () marvin
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Hi all,

I've edited a second version of the Plasma Active Three announcement with all 
your feedback incorporated, it's attached and up for improvements on:

https://promo.notes.kde.org/84

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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["announcement-text-pa3.html" (announcement-text-pa3.html)]

<h1>Plasma Active 3 Improves Performance, Brings New Apps</h1>
<p>
KDE has released the 3rd stable version of Plasma Active, KDE's device-independent \
user experience. Plasma Active user interface is touch-friendly and works well across \
a range of devices, such as tablet computers. Its activity-driven workflows enable \
the user to organize and consume digital assets more naturally.<br /> Plasma Active \
Three noticably improves the user experiences with its improved and expanded set of \
apps, improved performance and a new virtual keyboard. </p>
<h2>New Apps: Files, Reader, Microblog</h2>
<p>
<strong>Files</strong> is a new application in the default set of Plasma Active's \
applications. Files is a file manager, which is not based on folders, but allows \
accessing and searching your documents by file type, creation time and semantic \
information such as Tags. Files does not use the file system directly, but employs \
Nepomuk, Plasma Active's underlying semantic engine to organize documents. <br />
Okular Active is Plasma Active's new Ebook Reader. Okular Active is built on the \
technology which also drives the desktop version of the popular Document viewer, and \
is optimized for reading documents. Okular Active supports a wide range of file \
formats, such as PDF, EPub, Open Document, and many others. <br />
Through Plasma Active's <strong>Add-Ons</strong>, thousands of ebooks are available \
for free, with for-pay applications and content upcoming. <br />
The new Microblog app offers an easy and intuitive way for users to keep tabs on \
social networks such as Twitter and Identi.ca. </p>
<h2>Champions: Kontact and Calligra</h2>
<p>
With Calligra Active and Kontact Touch, Plasma Active delivers scalable and proven \
applications for office and groupware tasks, which focus on interoperability. Kontact \
Touch supports a wide number of groupware solutions, while Calligra Active brings \
excellent support for viewing office file formats such as OpenDocument and \
Microsoft's .doc and .docx families. To the user, Kontact Touch brings calendaring, \
emails, contacts among other features. Calligra sports wordprocessor, spreadsheet, \
presentations and a number of other applications geared towards professional, but \
also recreative use. </p>
<p>
The KDE developers have also been putting a lot of effort into improving performance \
of the user experience, its applications and underlying libraries. These improvements \
bring a noticably snappier and more visually coherent user interface and make using \
Plasma Active a more enjoyable experience. </p>
<h2>Improved Text Input</h2>
<p>
Thanks to a new virtual keyboard based on <a \
href="https://wiki.maliit.org/Features">Maliit</a>, the input method also used on \
devices such as Nokia's N9, Plasma Active Three improves ease of text input. The new \
virtual keyboard is faster and more convenient to use and offers great flexibility \
for system integrators. </p>

<h2>Roadmap: More Apps, Qt5 and File Synchronization</h2>
<p>
In the following releases, the user may expect support for a wider range of devices, \
easier synchronization of data across devices, an improved user experience through \
the use of Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5 and a more diverse set of applications to cover \
popular use cases.<br /> The KDE team is currently working on bringing a Plasma \
Active-based tablet to the market which shows its capabilities and offers users a \
fresh and more open alternative to existing mobile operating systems. </p>


<p>
Plasma Active is Free software and openly developed. Plasma Active's reference \
implementation builds on the Mer operating system and runs on a number of devices, \
including popular x86-based tablet computers and ARM-based hardware such as the \
Archos G9 series. Plasma Active can be used as a base for creating custom user \
experiences, as well as as multi-purpose user experience for emerging devices. \
Participation in Plasma Active is welcomed, either through individual contributions \
or by joining the <a href="http://makeplaylive.com/">Make * Play * Live</a> partner \
network as official support or distribution partner. </p>



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