Hello, I have some questions/ramblings/thoughts regarding Plasma Active ( PA ) that I really would appreciate some response to. Let me start with my "use case":
I envision having a device which lets me, in no particular order of interest: stay up date with RSS feeds, browse some office documents, read my mail ( several different accounts ), connect to my irc networks ( quassel or plain ssh+irssi is what I use today ), do some general web surfin', listen to my music and watch some movies, as well as letting me use ssh in a couple of terminals. I also wish to be able to use a separate screen and keyboard to do some lighter coding ( read text editing ). I envision this device to be: somewhere between a phone and a tablet in size ( a samsung galaxy note II comes to mind ). A device fullfilling all of the above would for me completly eliminate the need for a laptop I know PA today satisfies a bunch of the above, so I'll get on to the specific questions: I) How does PA deal with multiple screens? a) Does kwin support using different themes/modes for different screens, ie could I have kwin-active handling the built-in display and regular kwin handle external desktop? b) What would happen to programs displayed on the external monitor when disconnected? Would they be hidden until a external monitor is reattached, or would they just receive a kill signal? c) Will there be tiling support on external monitor? Last status of kwin as far as I know is that is in-between ( it did support tiling, support was removed, might come back via kwin-scripts ). II) How does PA visavi virtual keyboard deal with external keyboards? Is the virtual keyboard disabled when there is a connected external kbd? III) Who does the device adaptations? From what I understand PA rely on Mer for the base OS, which in turn does not themselfs do the device adaptations. So who does? Best regards Andreas Nilsson
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