About KDE/plasma on small devices

[Andreas Marschke]

Hi ,

I've sent this request to the kde-devel mailing list before and would like to 
get back to it with you guys here as Aaron suggested on kde-devel.

I've been tinkering about KDE on smaller devices such s the n900 Aaron luckily 
informed me about the playground project that is in place and will probably be 
out on 4.4 (the plasma keyboard as far as I'm aware). 

In my humble opinion the best suited for the job is the netbook shell.Things 
that are used on the mobile phone could be developed as a plsmoid which would 
then just be added to the newspaper containment. This would have the issue 
that you would get quite scared because most of the mobilephone apps would 
have to be placed there. 

Another ,  more userfriendly, approach could be to add 
containments/activities for sms/phonecalls/videos or what ever somebody would 
want to use there. These would then added dynamically as a new Activity you 
would switch them by providing the activities-switch-plasmoid in each 
activities panel. Unfortunately I am not fully aware about how easy/hard it is 
to do things like that. Other suggestions how to do this would be highly 
appreciated. 

So one of the things that would need to be inplace would be information for 
people who are not yet involved in the development.  For now  small wrap up on 
the mailing list would help to get first pointers upon from where to tackle all 
these issues.

Cheers ,

Andreas Marschke.