Plasma Mobile on the Librem 5

[Zlatan Todoric]

Hi Martin,


On 09/04/2017 06:00 PM, Martin Flöser wrote:
> Am 2017-09-03 23:17, schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
>> I do know that there is a good amount of interest
>> in the community, but my impression is also that many people are
>> playing a waiting game for others to move before they're getting their
>> hands dirty. This is something we need to resolve to get the ball really
>> rolling. A decent plan and coordination of these effort is definitely
>> needed, and this is something we should come up with first. Build and
>> they will come.
>
> *nod* - I absolutely think this is a chicken-egg problem. Due to not
> having hardware nobody is interested in doing work and due to not
> having software we don't get the hardware. Librem 5 might be just the
> push to get out of this loop. What might be needed is getting
> development boards early to KDE devs and we need to get the initial
> setup story good, so that it's easy to hack on without having to fight
> the system (I remember the horror of Nokia's maemo cross compiler)
>
>>> Now that is said - what suggestion do you have for a meeting around
>>> promoting collaboration between Purism and KDE regarding Librem5?
>>> Videoconferencing or async via mail? Other tools? I would add to the
>>> discussion our CEO, CMO and Director of Creative.
>>
>> Video would probably work best, a phone conference is also an option.
>> Plasma and KDE promo people are mostly in Europe, but I'm sure we can
>> make something work, even if it's outside of office hours (I don't
>> mind).
>
> If you need any input from the Wayland stack (e.g. rendering, input)
> I'm happy to participate, though that would mean outside of office
> hours ;-) (earliest 16 CEST).

You should participate for sure as I plan to have Wayland as the only
display server we will run (if we can avoid X and all its dependencies,
that would be a good thing for all). I will now create a separate thread
for the proposal of meeting date.

>
> Cheers
> Martin
Z