naming the next major release

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday, August 19, 2013 21:56:35 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> given that we are moving to a “grand unified shell” approach where the
> different user experiences flow seamlessly from one to the next, it may
> make sense to drop the concept that there is such huge differentiation that
> they are the “Workspaces” and instead are just “Plasma” which happens to
> morph to fit the device.

Brainfart ahead.

We come up with a plan for a headless module for Plasma, that basically sets 
up a local server, installs kolab, owncloud, jabber, your own image sharing 
service, etc. and whatever else is needed to take the cloud private, and offer 
that as an option you can install on a random device, connect storage. (Could 
even be a mediacenter that is running both, plasma-mediacenter and the server 
packages. Such a relatively constrained target device could be made to work 
really well with the device, and provide the basic needs for circumventing a 
lot of privacy problems around centralized web services, targeting the 
increased needs for really private communication.

On the client side is entirely integrated in the UI through predefined setups 
for Kontact, KPeople and KTelepathy, a file sync client. Configuration and 
other metadata could possibly be synced across devices safely that way as 
well, and possibly even be rolled out to clients in more enterprise setups, or 
serve as a remote control channel for different devices (media playback, 
etc.).
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sebas

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