A Plasma Vision draft

[Jens Reuterberg]

Ok so some good criticism from IRC that I thought I should document here for 
posterity:

[15:57] <sebas> - criticism: "Plasma is not good enough for professional use" 
[15:58] <sebas> - people complaining "but this is supposed to be a just for 
fun thing, nothing serious! I hate you now!" 
[15:58] <bshah> jensreu: point #3 : This is plasma vision and in 3rd detail 
you say.. "A perfomant desktop..." 
[15:58] <sebas> We can meet both with sensible arguments, just needs to be 
thought through 
[15:59] <bshah> jensreu: so I would rephrase 3rd detail completely... just not 
sure how
[16:01] <jensreu> bshah: would "performant user interface" work better? 
[16:01] <bshah> depends on if we consider Plasma technology or user 
interface.. 
[16:01] <jensreu> sebas: yeah true, should we soften the "professional" bit? 
[16:02] <sebas> yes, please try (not sure it'll work, but I'm curious what you 
can come up with)
 

On Monday, 4 April 2016 15:45:30 CEST Jens Reuterberg wrote:
> Hey, so me and Thomas have been hard at work on this for a while now and I
> think we are at a good point to show what we got.
> 
> Please remember that THIS IS JUST A DRAFT! Nothing is set in stone even if
> the document looks fancy (the PNG attached to this email)
> Below is the raw text of it.
> 
> /Jens
> 
> The Vision is split into three subsections:
> Vision, Details and and three key points.
> The actual Vision:
> Plasma is created to be the primary user interface for multiple device
> classes providing a stable, performant, usable and above all productive
> environment for professional computer users.
> Plasma's feature set is selected for its usefulness in a productive context
> with a constant care to user privacy.
> 
> Detail 1: Plasma not only promises to never invade its users' privacy
> itself, but also protect against other parties' attempts to spy on them.
> Security is a precondition to privacy, all privacy measures are useless in
> an insecure system.
> Detail 2: Our target audience works with their devices in a professional
> setting. Productivity is key for them and their user interface must give
> them an efficient and swift way of completing tasks.
> Detail 3: A perfomant desktop is the base of any productive environment and
> code quality, usability and aesthetic value are relevant to the experience.
> Nothing in the interface exists on its own merits but for what it brings to
> the user.
> 
> The Three Key points:
> Private, Professional, Performant.