Task Proposal: Support more (touch) devices

[martin brook]

Samuel Hi,

Welcome aboard.

Sounds like your work could take Plasma Active to a few more devices, are
you currently building for any low cost ARM tablets?

BR

vgrade

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Samuel Stirtzel <s.stirtzel at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> Hi I'm new to KDE / Plasma Active development,
> (Usually I do cross platform Qt development).
>
> As Plasma Active seems to be _the next generation touch user
> interface_ I'm quite interested in the development process.
>
> 2012/1/19 martin brook <martin.brook100 at googlemail.com>:
> > User Story
> >
> > =======
> >
> >
> > 1. A developer get interested in the project and works on hip PC to
> develop
> > new app/utility/core functionality but has a limited number of expensive
> > devices to deploy and test on.
> >
> > 2. A user sees a blog post, youtube video of Plasma Active and thinks he
> > would like to use it, again he is limited to a couple of devices
> >
> >
> > Why this is important
> >
> > =============
> >
> >
> > Currently we only have a couple of touch devices supported slowing the
> rate
> > of adoption by developers and users.  More devices will bring developers
> and
> > users to the project
>
> It could be an option to port Plasma Active to the OpenEmbedded /
> Yocto Project [see 1 & 2]
> So it is possible to use it on any device supported there.
> Also Plasma Active would be easily accessible to development
> communities of Beagleboard, Pandaboard, Gumstix Overo, N900 (with
> Angstrom / SHR), OpenPandora, Neo Freerunner and others.
>
> About my concern: I write software for the Gumstix Overo development
> board (ARMv7) and I would love to see Plasma Active on this kind of
> hardware.
> I'd like to volunteer to help porting, and I already started but I
> wasn't involved in the development of Plasma Active so far.
> Currently I'm stuck with porting the dependencies of Plasma Active,
> since KDE.org is confusing me with svn and git meshing.
>
>
> [1 OpenEmbedded]
> Openembedded is a build framework that creates individual distributions
> for you.
> see:
> http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Main_Page
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEmbedded
>
> [2 Yocto Project]
> Yocto Project is the umbrella project for the build Systems
> OpenEmbedded and Poky.
> see:
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/
>
>
>
> Feel free to contact me in this matter.
>
> --
> Regards
> Samuel
>
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