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Plasma Active
Plasma Active
ntKDE has annouced the first release of their Plasma Active project that provides an alternate interface for tablets.
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ntBased on Qt 4.7 and the Plasma framework seen in the KDE Platform, KDE says that it will run almost any software that is available for Linux platforms. On the hardware side, compatibility is a lot less.
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ntHere is the About screen for Plasma Active One, as seen in our instance running on top of MeeGo, recently abandoned by Intel and Nokia Linux-based operating system for mobile devices.
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Plasma Active: User Interface
Plasma Active: User Interface
ntThe Plasma Active interface is designed around Activities that are intended to help users organise data. Old school users would probably recognise them as named desktops.
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Plasma Active: Activity Scroll
Plasma Active: Activity Scroll
ntActivities have the ability to scroll endlessly in a vertical direction — the number of widgets that one can place on an Activity is not limited by physical screen size.
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Plasma Active: Peek
Plasma Active: Peek
ntPulling down on the bar at the top of the screen, much like an Android notification bar, reveals the currently running applications. Plasma Active calls this area Peek.
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Plasma Active: Peek Application Launcher
Plasma Active: Peek Application Launcher
ntPulling Peek down further reveals the application launcher.
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Plasma Active: Konsole
Plasma Active: Konsole
ntHere is the Konsole running and Plasma Active’s on-screen keyboard.
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Plasma Active: KWrite
Plasma Active: KWrite
ntThe venerable KDE text editor: KWrite.
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Plasma Active: Settings
Plasma Active: Settings
ntThe settings panel, depending on the Activity configuration that could be very hard to read; hopefully the transparency issue is only due to running Plasma Active inside a virtual machine.
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Plasma Active: Web Browser
Plasma Active: Web Browser
ntThe Plasma Active web browser.
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Plasma Active: Date and Time
Plasma Active: Date and Time
ntDate and time settings: a classic KDE settings screen.
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Plasma Active: Activity Background Selection
Plasma Active: Activity Background Selection
ntThe panel for selecting a new background image for the current Activity.
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Plasma Active: Kontact Touch event
Plasma Active: Kontact Touch event
ntCreating a new event for the email and calendaring application, Kontact Touch.
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Plasma Active: Kontact Touch email
Plasma Active: Kontact Touch email
ntKontact Touch in email mode.
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Plasma Active: Activity Switcher
Plasma Active: Activity Switcher
ntThe Activity Switcher on the right-hand side.
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Plasma Active: MeeGo Welcome
Plasma Active: MeeGo Welcome
ntThis is the screen that welcomes the user when installing Plasma Active with MeeGo.
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Plasma Active: Disk Format
Plasma Active: Disk Format
ntIn this screen: initialisation means format.
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Plasma Active: Installion End
Plasma Active: Installion End
ntAs the text says, the operating system expects to be installed with a USB thumb drive.
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Plasma Active: Introduction
Plasma Active: Introduction
ntIt’s a nice touch to have a clickable video to play that helps explain basic interactions with the interface.
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Plasma Active: Activity Description
Plasma Active: Activity Description
ntHow Plasma Active describes Activities.
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Plasma Active: Shut Down
Plasma Active: Shut Down
ntA familiar KDE log-out dialog, shut down also provides the option to suspend to RAM or to suspend to disk.
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