Plasma Vision v 2.0

[Jens Reuterberg]

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