getting images together for 1.0

[Robby Engelmann]

Hi all,

I am using plasma-active (OpenSuse version) since its very beginning on a 
wetab and I have followed the dev advances over time, the improvements in the 
Activity Switcher, the recent addition of SLC and Recommendations. Really a 
great work of you all, developers and UI designers!

I regularly follow the mailing list and now I saw this discussion on features 
etc. In my opinion, the general UI is well usable for my. I knew about 
activities from my Kubuntu desktop and use them quite heavily :-).

Here, I wanted to write down some areas, where I would love to see more 
advances:

1. General UI:
-the possibility to switch to portrait format (to look at fotos or read 
texts). I tried my luck with KRandR, but I got kind of crashes (don't remember 
what parts exactly) and the rest was not usable.

-the keyboard needs some arrow keys, especially for konsole work or to correct 
mistapped lettres during writing.

-again the keyboard: These days I visit a congress in Munich. Unfortunately, 
most of the talks are in german. Thus I would need german locals for the 
keyboard. This does not work consistently.

-sometimes the various buttons react a bit sluggish and I have to tap more 
than one time.

-is there already a smooth way for copy&paste ?


2. For applications:
-most important for me would be the text work. Thus Calligra Words for every 
kind of notes and Kate to modify my R scripts for statistics and graphs. In 
these apps the on-screen keyboard does not appear for me. In Calligra Words I 
always tap in the field for the font name to trigger the keyboard. In Kate I 
didnt find a way to trigger it.

-For Groupware I use the normal desktop Kontact suite as the mobile variant is 
kind of too rudimentary for me. But the desktop variant is not very annoying 
:-)

-Up to now, I do not understand the bookmarks system. There is an akonadi 
ressource, but I do not find the bookmarks after I added one there



To not missunderstand me: I love the plasma-active initiative. Somewhere, I 
read a blog post on tablets, saying that all products on the market only are 
usable for playing around. I hope plasma-active can fill the hole as a system 
to perform ones work stuff on a tablet (or a smartphone, or a car 
entertainment system :-D )

Go on!