Notes on Plasma BoF, monday morning

[Jan Grulich]

Hi,

sorry if this gets weird formatting as I'm writing this through a tablet using our terrible web UI. 
 
About missing network manager configuration module. I still have a student who is trying to implement this as part of his bachelor thesis. Problem is he hasn't been really active so I'm not really optimistic, but he might as well surprise me. He still has couple of months to finish it on the other hand. If he fails you can count on me to work on this or at least ask me for any help, this is still area where I know some stuff. 

Regards from Cyprus,
Jan

----- Original Message -----
From: Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com>
To: plasma-devel <plasma-devel at kde.org>
Sent: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 06:49:53 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Notes on Plasma BoF, monday morning

Vision on Plasma Mobile
* agreement on vision
then we moved on talking about some points of the strategy:

Strategy on Plasma Mobile
* more collaboration
* make our Qt usable for their mobile apps
* reach out to Ubuntu Touch?
* convergence: a lot of work here will improve transformable laptops
* share more with ubports (qt build? ubuntu controls packaging?)
* for apps straight out of ubuntutouch: containers! snappies with
their patched Qt version (apol)
* reach for people doing the apps, make easy for them to port to our
platform (our qt, run on plasma mobile, kirigami)
* ubuntu store apps going to openstore: reach openstore: collaboration
with the KDE store? (jerry+sebas)
* future.. collaboration with PostMarketOS
* primary UI: use kicker for homescreen (eike)
* folderview backend for a mobile file manager (eike)
* simplify top peek panel (marco)
* simplify applet container (marco)
* Sebas and Jens will come up with a more marketing friendly strategy document
* a security model will be an huge task for the future (especially
with phones with an old kernel)

What's missing on plama mobile
* Systemsettings modules: network manager and dual SIM manager

Convergence
* what we need for convergence for convertible laptops
* work on virtual keyboard (david and eike)
* automatic screen rotation
* sensors on when a transformable laptop gets transformed and back
(QtSensors supports some laptops)
** autorotation (in wayland rotation needs to be implemented in kwin_wayland)
** virtual keyboard autoshow
** task for everybody: use for half an hour the system with just the
touchscreen, don't touch keyboard and touchpad
** kirigami: a bit more dynamyic adaptation: tweak units a bit when
touch event happens vs mouse only events, switch from scrollbar to
scroll indicator on mouse (marco)
* what we can afford to say "supported only on wayland" (like screen rotation)
* more convergent apps with Kirigami