On 18.02.2013 12:30, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
Hi
Hi Swapnil,
I am working on a quick story on Plasma Active (and would very much be continue to cover it as new development happens). I have 16GB Nexus 7 and have managed to install Plasma Active (Mer) on the device. The wiki page is nice but it lacks some info so I have compiled an article about installing it on Nexus 7 and how to go back to Android. This info can of course be used to update the Wiki page.
Great, the more end-user documentation, the better!
I have some queries so that I can continue my testing and write about it: Imp questions: 1. How to cread root user account so that I can install updates and other needed packages
There should already be a root account, with the password "mer" (just use "su").
2. How do I enabled othe repositories?
All the repositories that actually work should be activated by default on the Devel images. If you'd like to test absolutely bleeding-edge, hamster-eatingly unstable stuff, go to Settings -> Development (or something like that, i currently don#t have access to a device) and there switch the Integration repository on.
Feedback: 3. I have noticed that apps open in maximed mode and I can't have tiled/multiple windows of applications, thus no multi-tasking is that a bug or that's how it is designed?
That's how it is designed because usually you don't have enough space on a tablet to conveniently show and interact with two applications on the same screen. That doesn't mean you can't multitask, though. You still have the window switcher ;)
4. there is no 'back' button when in Files or any other such application.
In files there is only one case where a back button is needed, and that's when you navigate the hierarchical structure on an external memory device. A back button should appear once you've entered a folder on an external device, though. If it isn't there, that's a bug. Other than that, you simply don't need a back button because you don't actually navigate somewhere, you just apply different filters.
In which situation(s) did you miss a back button?
5. Fonts or menus are too tiny to be used from touch interface. Is there any way to increase the size (especially in files you can increase the icon size)
In which applications did you notice that? In case of desktop (i.e. QWidget-based) applications, we don't really care, they are legacy anyways. For Active applications, we haven't finished DPI-awareness yet, so Plasma Active may suffer from Nexus 7's high DPI. Things should improve considerably for QML-based applications once DPI-awareness is fully implemented, but I don't know when that will be.
I must congratulate the team for such a great effort. I ran Ubuntu on it as well, but I found Plasma Active to be 'ready' for such devices.
Thanks, great to hear! Thomas Pfeiffer _______________________________________________ Active mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
