Plasma Vision v 2.0

[Jens]

Ok after much edits and fiddling this is the current one - based on input from 
a wealth of sources and people:

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"Plasma is a cross-device work environment by the KDE Community where trust is 
put on the user's capacity to best define her own workflow and preferences.

Plasma is simple by default, a clean work area for real-world usage which 
intends to stay out of your way.
Plasma is powerful when needed, enabling the user to create the workflow that 
makes her more effective to complete her tasks.

Plasma never dictates the user's needs, it only strives to solve them. Plasma 
never defines what the user is allowed to do, it only ensures that she can.

Our motivation is to enable actual work to happen, across devices, across 
different platforms, using any application needed.

We build to be durable, we create to be usable, we design to be elegant."

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This is the final call for feedback and input! Calling all passengers! If you 
have feedback GIVE IT ! :D

/Jens

On Friday, 9 June 2017 09.40.28 CEST Jens Reuterberg wrote:
> Time to get back to the vision.
> 
> ---- Plasma Vision 2 ----
> 
> Plasma Desktop is a cross device work environment where total trust is put
> on the user's capacity to best define her own workflow and preferences.
> 
> Plasma is simple by default, a clean work area for real world usage which
> intends to stay out of your way.
> Plasma is powerful when needed, enabling the user to create the workflows
> that make her more effective to complete her tasks.
> 
> Plasma never dictates the user's needs, it only strives to solve them.
> Plasma never defines what the user should be allowed to do, it only ensures
> that she can.
> 
> Our motivation is that we enable actual work to happen, across devices,
> across different operating systems, using any application needed.
> 
> We build to be durable, we create to be usable, we design to be interesting.
> 
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> 
> Reasoning behind the vision:
> The key aspects of it is that Plasma is "Cross Device" - we state that as
> clearly as possible. "Simple by default, powerful when needed" has to be
> repeated within it to hammer that in as that is, in many ways a
> communicative tool we really want associated with Plasma.
> 
> Removed Desktop Environment after last one as that was seen as too much
> "computer" and too little "Mobile" etc.
> 
> The focus is "work" and "tasks", IRL stuff focusing on a user that needs to
> solve an actual problem instead of an attempt to create further ones through
> complexity. At the same time we want to ensure that we never strip the user
> of options (this is one of the weak points in the vision - more on that
> below)
> 
> Finally its the poetic vitruvian line at the end: Firmitas, Utilitas,
> Venustatis. That something is "well built" or "durable", that something is
> "usable" (from a users perspective easy to use) and finally "beautiful" or
> interesting to use - inspiring usage. Build/Create/Design is intended not as
> work roles ("designer" etc) but something we all do ("designing the system"
> for example).
> 
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> Feedback, spellchecking, grammar checking and just "yay" or "neigh" wanted.
> 
> /Jens