Plasma Active - Ultrabook touchscreen

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Am Donnerstag, 9. Oktober 2014, 18:23:44 schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer:
> On Thursday 09 October 2014 15:51:19 Caio Ferreira wrote:
> > Hello gents,
> > 
> > I just bought a Lenovo Ideapad Flex 14 Touch-80C4000EBR, which came with
> > windows 8.1. I'm a linux user since 2002, currently using openSUSE 13.2
> > (beta) but I was relly exited to see Plasma Active running in this
> > touchscreen ultrabook.
> > 
> > I've seen a lot of things about plasma active running in some tablets, but
> > nothing about touchscreen notebook. I'm just sending this message because
> > I
> > can see a big "market" on touchscreen notebooks as no other linux DE works
> > properly with touchscreen.
> > 
> > Why not to create a distro with plasma active? (suse studio is a great
> > tool
> > for this purpose) (yes, there is a old one:
> > https://susestudio.com/a/abQj83/plasma-active#discussion)
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Caio Ferreira
> 
> Hi Caio,
> (btw, why are you so sure there are no ladies in the Plasma Active team? ;)
> ) You are right, convertible laptop/tablets such as the Ideapad Flex are
> indeed a prime target for Plasma - though not for Plasma Active alone, but
> for the combination of Plasma Desktop in the laptop mode and Plasma Active
> in the tablet mode.
> Plasma Active was explicitly designed for pure touchscreen use, so it's what
> should be used in tablet mode when the keyboard and touchpad are hidden.
> 
> Being able to seamlessly switch between the different shells when the device
> mode is changed has always been the goal of Plasma. However, in the Plasma
> 4 times, this didn't work smoothly yet.
> This will change with Plasma 5, though. The thing is that the port of Plasma
> Active to Plasma 5 is not finished yet. As soon as it's done, it should
> work in any distribution that ships Plasma, so it makes most sense to pick
> it up at that point.
> 
> Another reason why we don't see widespread adoption of Plasma Active in
> regular Linux distributions yet might be that it was developed based on the
> mobile-focused Mer platform and packaging it in other distributions turned
> out not to be trivial. This will change with the Plasma 5 version, too,
> since at that point Plasma Active is just a regular shell package like
> Plasma Desktop.
> 
> So, tl;dr : If you want the optimal experience with Plasma on your
> convertible, either wait for the port to Plasma 5 or help make it happen
> faster by contributing code / money / whatever to its development ;)
> 
> Best,
> Thomas
> 
> 
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Very good news Thomas

Cheers 

Wolfgang
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