plasma, umpc, etc

[Christopher Blauvelt]

2008/3/5 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>:

> hi..
>
> so we already have one SoC student looking to propose a mobile device
> project
> for plasma, and today i've received two possible offers for relevant
> hardware
> from manufacturers.


Which devices?  While I'm not a SoC candidate my progress in this area has
been hindered by my access to only one device (N770) which has limited
resources.


>
>
> Plasma is at the point now where it's probably time to really start
> exploring
> it's possibilities on these devices. they pack a good amount of
> horsepower,
> so the initial work will be build env and UI related (such as Nathan
> Eckenrode's SoC project proposal).
>
> now, i don't want to collect various bits o hardware here at the house.
> not
> only will i not have the time to use more than one or two devices, i think
> it
> would make a lot more sense to get as many interested hands as possible on
> these things.
>
> so i'm looking for people who have some experience with plasma (you don't
> have
> to be a ninja, just have poked at some of the code, such as written widget
> or
> dataengine plugins, for example) who would realistically have interest,
> time
> and energy to explore plasma on these devices.


Sign me up.  That's the main reason that I've been writing these dataengines
to interface with Solid.  It will give us a way to write control applets
that will easily scale down to embedded devices.
I see the following as necessary:
- Device Engine: feature complete and reworked to make it more memory
efficient.
- NetworkManager Engine - ironing out the bugs to make it feature complete.
- BluetoothManager Engine - not started.
- Decibel Engines: - Has been started and introduced into playground.

The applets that interface with these engine will thus be able to work not
matter the device (PC, phone, laptop, etc.)


>
>
> if that's you, please let me know what you'd want to do with the device
> (it's
> easier to convince people to mail hardware off if there's a concrete
> project/goal to go along with that) and i'll try to start hooking people
> up
> with the opportunity to play with some (free! =) hardware.
>
I have a lot of ideas that I think are achievable and will make KDEmbedded a
viable UI platform.
Some of these include:
- Media Player - to be implemented as a containment and integrate phonon
that will enable you to play all media files.
- Decibel Integration - will be made possible via the decibel engines and
eventually enable it to work with all IM services and VOIP
- Marble Integration - this will require tiling and will be made better by
open maps.

I believe all of these, while not trivial, are attainable goals that will
outstrip other existing UI offerings and will be built on already existing
KDE technologies.
Chris
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