definitions and package for plasma on meego

[Fathi Boudra]

forward to the right list: kde-mobile

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> hi ...
>
> i (along with some other kde people) are in preliminary discussions with some
> companies regarding putting KDE and Plasma on devices. one in particular is
> looking at Plasma Netbook + modifications for a tablet device running MeeGo.
>
> this kind of opportunity will likely become more frequent, but as they appear
> they are usually going to be one time events: we will have one good shot with
> each company.
>
> right now, we're missing a very critical piece of the puzzle which is
> preventing these companies from starting to get involved in R&D type
> activities with us:
>
>                we need a clear description of what "KDE on MeeGo" is.
>
> this includes:
>
> * build instructions for MeeGo
>
> * tarballs they can download with the relevant sources (could be just a list
> of links to existing tarballs we release)
>
> * lists of files/libraries that end up being installed as part of kdelibs and
> runtime on MeeGo
>
> * documentation of the MeeGo profiles (tablet, mobile) that go into kdelibs
>
> i know these are all "works in progress" type things, but if we have
> documentation on them, please speak up and post links so we can pass them on
> to the interested parties.
>
> there is some information here:
>
>        http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Mobile
>
> but it's a bit spotty and not something we can hand to a 3rd party, really.
> there is also some interesting TODO's here:
>
>        http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Mobile/PlatformModifications
>
> and some packaging docs here:
>
>        http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Mobile/MaemoPackages
>
> but again, this is more in the category of "internal notes".
>
> i also have read the notes from the mobile BoF at akademy:
>
>        http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Mobile/Meetings/Akademy2010#Minutes
>
> some great stuff there; but it's missing "documentation for 3rd parties". some
> may be tempted to say "but we aren't ready for 3rd parties", but that's
> incorrect: we are ready for early adopters who are ready and willing to help
> out and work with the code alongside us. it's an opportunity to get more
> people helping us instead of trying to do it all on our own like heros with
> the idea of having something "complete" one day to offer to 3rd parties. while
> many 3rd parties are going to want that "something complete", not everyone
> needs that and some are going to want to be involved in making it happen.
>
> i don't have the knowledge necessary to put together this kind of
> documentation, so i'm asking that those who do can come together and help me
> do so. if we can have a working meetng on irc sometime this week to do so,
> that would be great, too. i'd like to end up with some basic recipes on
> getting the KDE Dev Platform on MeeGo along with a slide presentation for the
> technical management, and i'm willing to do a lot of the writing if we can
> scrape together the technical information.
>
> i'm available all of tomorrow and the next day to work on this. who will help
> out?
>
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