Goal: Improve Plasma Mobile platform for end-user needs

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Tue Sep 5 09:54:02 BST 2017


On dinsdag 5 september 2017 01:26:44 CEST Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Bhushan Shah <bhush94 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > For big-hairy-audacious-goal here is my proposal
> > 
> > "Improve Plasma Mobile platform for end-user needs"
> > 
> > I believe that after doing work on Desktop for almost ~21 years, it
> > makes sense to explore the new form factor. While we are offering
> > the privacy and security centric opensource products for the
> > Desktop, we should also attempt our best in providing same products
> > for Mobile as well.
> > 
> > I've written proposal in details at the Phabricator board [1]. Feel
> > free to give feedback or ideas.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > [1] https://phabricator.kde.org/T6878
> 
> I like the idea, especially because it's probably the best moment to
> do it.
> 
> I believe there's a lot we can offer to the mobile community. In the
> end all of us are carrying such a device with us. It's something we
> care about.
> 
> That said, I think it's also worth including here other major mobile
> platforms. I'm convinced that the appeal to make an application mobile
> is magnitudes greater if the application will work on other platforms
> besides our own.

I agree, a KDE app using Kirigami for a convergent user interface, and
being able to easily deploy it to an APK for Android would make a
pretty compelling story to get more KDE developers to make their app
mobile-friendly, and at the same time, make KDE an interesting
community to develop also mobile applications in, with the side-effect
of enrichening the Plasma Mobile app ecosystem.
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sebas

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