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Re: Plasma Mobile

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Post by PuffinBlue »

nitrogen wrote: post #101
PuffinBlue wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh, even the same green - #2ebd59

With 16.7 million colors for billions of users, and the birthday paradox, there are going to be collisions in the space of web colors.

You're right! Here we see a case of colliding layouts, colliding image primary colours in those layouts, colliding header image orientations and placement, colliding header hero placements and colliding header hero font colours.

The footers and list styles seem to have had a minor fender bender too.

Quite the birthday these two sites have.

Re: Plasma Mobile

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Post by deluxeroyale »

kaitari wrote: post #118
davelondon wrote: post #42

I'm sure the remarkable similarity to the www.spotify.com/uk homepage is just a lucky coincidence: http://imgur.com/zPfdFX8

Yes, it's a blatant ripoff of Spotify's website design, not some pre-built Wordpress theme. Source: I work at Spotify.

Agreed. I was one of the lead designers of the Spotify page and I saw it the second the page loaded.

They could have at least changed the colors :)

Re: Plasma Mobile

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Post by jtouri »

JupiterMoon wrote: post #3
jbk wrote: post #2

So, there is not much information on the website yet, but this is basically a full stack for mobiles, based on Wayland and Kwin for the UI and Ofono for the phone part. The reference implementation is based on Ubuntu Touch, and use libhybris to get hw support. However, it's different from UT, by the fact that it's not using Mir, but Wayland directly through Kwin. It seems to run Ubuntu Touch applications, X11 applica…

Are there plans to expand hardware options? Is there a donate option? I can't wait to stop dealing with running Android.

I sure hope. This would improve affordability for anyone who wants to create startups with hardware.

Re: Plasma Mobile

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Post by cwyers »

_lce0 wrote: post #104
maheart wrote: post #99

So much negativity in this thread. Where's your hacker spirit? It might not yet be as feature-rich or polished as Android or iOS, but this is a very hacker-friendly project! I for one am really excited about this. I wrote about why on reddit[1]. Keep up the good work devs! [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3ejo62/plasma_mobile...

Exactly. Pleople here should compare this against early Android/iOS, not with their 2015 version. We should always support open/libre projects, as they makes us all richer, even if you dont directly use (or like) them Cant wait to have a REAL linux in my pocket

> Pleople here should compare this against early Android/iOS, not with their 2015 version.

Why's that? Android and iOS are available in their 2015 versions right now.

Re: Plasma Mobile

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Post by phogg »

_lce0 wrote: post #104
maheart wrote: post #99

So much negativity in this thread. Where's your hacker spirit? It might not yet be as feature-rich or polished as Android or iOS, but this is a very hacker-friendly project! I for one am really excited about this. I wrote about why on reddit[1]. Keep up the good work devs! [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3ejo62/plasma_mobile...

Exactly. Pleople here should compare this against early Android/iOS, not with their 2015 version. We should always support open/libre projects, as they makes us all richer, even if you dont directly use (or like) them Cant wait to have a REAL linux in my pocket

There's no need to wait: the n900 was real Linux (with X, apt-get and anything you could want) as was the n9. If Nokia hadn't scrapped the n9 virtually as soon as it was finished it would be a serious competitor right now.

The experience, speaking as an n9 user who eventually moved to Android, was much more pleasant on the n9. The only problem was limited app selection.

Re: Plasma Mobile

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Post by walterbell »

phogg wrote: post #135
_lce0 wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. Pleople here should compare this against early Android/iOS, not with their 2015 version. We should always support open/libre projects, as they makes us all richer, even if you dont directly use (or like) them Cant wait to have a REAL linux in my pocket

There's no need to wait: the n900 was real Linux (with X, apt-get and anything you could want) as was the n9. If Nokia hadn't scrapped the n9 virtually as soon as it was finished it would be a serious competitor right now. The experience, speaking as an n9 user who eventually moved to Android, was much more pleasant on the n9. The only problem was limited app selection.

Did you consider Jolla/Sailfish?

Re: Plasma Mobile

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Post by chei0aiV »

phogg wrote: post #135
_lce0 wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. Pleople here should compare this against early Android/iOS, not with their 2015 version. We should always support open/libre projects, as they makes us all richer, even if you dont directly use (or like) them Cant wait to have a REAL linux in my pocket

There's no need to wait: the n900 was real Linux (with X, apt-get and anything you could want) as was the n9. If Nokia hadn't scrapped the n9 virtually as soon as it was finished it would be a serious competitor right now. The experience, speaking as an n9 user who eventually moved to Android, was much more pleasant on the n9. The only problem was limited app selection.

There is a real successor to the N900 called Neo900:

http://neo900.org/

Still in development but some really cool stuff like isolation of the modem.

Re: Plasma Mobile

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Post by chei0aiV »

sho_hn wrote: post #35
jbk wrote: post #2

So, there is not much information on the website yet, but this is basically a full stack for mobiles, based on Wayland and Kwin for the UI and Ofono for the phone part. The reference implementation is based on Ubuntu Touch, and use libhybris to get hw support. However, it's different from UT, by the fact that it's not using Mir, but Wayland directly through Kwin. It seems to run Ubuntu Touch applications, X11 applica…

Right, here's the stack as a quick recap: Kubuntu with systemd + Android GPU driver via libhybris + kwin as Wayland display server and compositor (with a hwcomposer backend for the renderer) + plasmashell + phone shell package. Ofono for GSM. Regular Linux desktop bits for everything else. This different from e.g. Firefox OS which relies on Android's SurfaceFlinger as display server, or Ubuntu Phone which uses their…

Are you working on merging the Linux kernel forks back into the mainline Linux kernel?

Will you port to the Neo900 when it comes out?

Re: Plasma Mobile

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Post by chei0aiV »

zanny wrote: post #117

So nobody is talking about Plasma Active. http://plasma-active.org/ Some history, Plasma Active is about five years old now and its development coincided with a would-have-been-crowdfunded-toay tablet called Vivaldi that was supposed to be an open hardware device that never panned out because costs got out of control and interest waned. It was based on Mer, rather than Kubuntu, and Qt4 rather than 5. Today it looks l…

The big problem is device support and how vendors approach that. They just throw crappy Linux BSPs over the wall for GPL compliance. For any community project to approach Android levels of device support is impossible because it takes a multi-million dollar effort to rewrite all that stuff and merge it into Linux mainline.

Re: Plasma Mobile

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Post by socceroos »

zanny wrote: post #111
wz1000 wrote: post #29

This is great. I really look forward to seeing where it goes. As an aside, KRunner is the best, most powerful and useful launcher I have ever used.

If KDE could get good voice recognition like Google Now (somehow) voice activated Krunner on a phone would be insanely juicy. Doesn't Google have Voice Recognition APIs? Would it be alright to use their services in KDE?

not having your voice stored on Google's servers is one of the reasons people are still keen on properly open phones.
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