plasma-mid

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 20 February 2009, Alexis Ménard wrote:
> From my side i will be ok to work on it but as i said to Morpheuz i will
> need help because i am pretty busy.
>
> So i need help for the artwork and for patches if they come.
i think perhaps if there are are some people that can give evenjust  few hours 
a week/month/whatever for now wouldn't be bad, the thing will progress very 
very slowly but at least not dead, just a bit undead :p

> Having plasma-mid, i can see two benefits,having a real alternative to the
> GTK stuff on Maemo...I want to get rid of... I think plasma can perfectly
> fill in that device and handle at least what's hildon do. And more Plasma
> can run on other platforms/device.
on maemo side i'm planning to do a more serious attempt to make it nicely 
working again (now i got a real dual boot on the external minisd, will be a 
bit easier, even if working with that annoying and outdated sdk is a real 
pita)
my original plan was to show a video of it at my talk at tokamak, but had to 
fallback to the thing running on the laptop that didn't make much sense...

>
> At the same time it match with what we need here in Qt Software, make Qt
> faster and faster on devices.
that probably would mean faster also on desktops and specially older pcs :)

Realistically for now requirements of kde apps are a bit more than devices 
like n810, for both drawing speed (using X here is a bit of a pain even if 
makes porting way easier) and probably disk access memory footprint (kde 
session takes around 2 mins to start on the n810, oouch) but i'm confident 
that both we can do a bit better and that those devices will become less 
crappy :)

>
> 2009/2/20 Artur Souza(MoRpHeUz) <morpheuz at openbossa.org>
>
> > hi!
> >
> > On Friday 20 February 2009 00:53:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > but we ought to turn some guns on plasma-mid as well, but only if we
> > > have them to spare.
> > >
> > > realistically, i'm already maxed out and can't give it the care,
> >
> > attention
> >
> > > and love it will take to make plasma-mid all that it should be. i can
> > > be here to support that effort and even contribute, but for it to
> > > become a reality, someone needs to make it Their Baby.
> > >
> > > is there anyone on the list who'd be up for that? it would mean:
> >
> > Here is the deal: I really have to give some love to Plasmate but, if I
> > can find a student from GSoC to work either on Plasmate or on plasma-mid,
> > I would
> > really love to have a baby like plasma-mid. I'm just not sure I can
> > handle plasma-mid + plasmate "full time" as both deserve a lot of
> > attention...
> >
> > > if you're already busy with other important plasma things (yes, i'm
> >
> > looking
> >
> > > at you marco ;) please don't shift your attention just because of this
> > > email. worst case scenario is plasma-mid sits for a little longer, best
> > > case is that someone with some time available each week who hasn't
> > > found "their niche" yet in plasma will be excited about helping create
> > > the
> >
> > future
> >
> > > of netbooks and get obsessed with plasma-mid. :)
> >
> > In worst scenario we can have some people taking care of plasma-mid (even
> > if
> > it's not their _main_ baby). I mean, me + marco + sebas? + aaron +
> > whoever is
> > interested would make it happen.....slower than if someone had it as a
> > baby but it would work...
> >
> > So, I'm really looking forward someone willing to help either on Plasmate
> > or
> > Plasma-mid....in both scenarios I would love to have plasma-mid as my
> > baby (for some reason I feel that this conversation taken out of context
> > would look
> > strange hehe =P ).
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > PS: maybe I can bug pinheiro + some canola's designer to help on the
> > mockup of
> > this thing....hhmmm ;)
> >
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