On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:27 PM, hier <h...@wolfgangromey.de> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 9. Oktober 2014, 18:23:44 schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer: > > On Thursday 09 October 2014 15:51:19 Caio Ferreira wrote: > > > Hello gents, > > > > > > I just bought a Lenovo Ideapad Flex 14 Touch-80C4000EBR, which came > with > > > windows 8.1. I'm a linux user since 2002, currently using openSUSE 13.2 > > > (beta) but I was relly exited to see Plasma Active running in this > > > touchscreen ultrabook. > > > > > > I've seen a lot of things about plasma active running in some tablets, > but > > > nothing about touchscreen notebook. I'm just sending this message > because > > > I > > > can see a big "market" on touchscreen notebooks as no other linux DE > works > > > properly with touchscreen. > > > > > > Why not to create a distro with plasma active? (suse studio is a great > > > tool > > > for this purpose) (yes, there is a old one: > > > https://susestudio.com/a/abQj83/plasma-active#discussion) > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > Caio Ferreira > > > > Hi Caio, > > (btw, why are you so sure there are no ladies in the Plasma Active team? > ;) > > ) You are right, convertible laptop/tablets such as the Ideapad Flex are > > indeed a prime target for Plasma - though not for Plasma Active alone, > but > > for the combination of Plasma Desktop in the laptop mode and Plasma > Active > > in the tablet mode. > > Plasma Active was explicitly designed for pure touchscreen use, so it's > what > > should be used in tablet mode when the keyboard and touchpad are hidden. > > > > Being able to seamlessly switch between the different shells when the > device > > mode is changed has always been the goal of Plasma. However, in the > Plasma > > 4 times, this didn't work smoothly yet. > > This will change with Plasma 5, though. The thing is that the port of > Plasma > > Active to Plasma 5 is not finished yet. As soon as it's done, it should > > work in any distribution that ships Plasma, so it makes most sense to > pick > > it up at that point. > > > > Another reason why we don't see widespread adoption of Plasma Active in > > regular Linux distributions yet might be that it was developed based on > the > > mobile-focused Mer platform and packaging it in other distributions > turned > > out not to be trivial. This will change with the Plasma 5 version, too, > > since at that point Plasma Active is just a regular shell package like > > Plasma Desktop. > > > > So, tl;dr : If you want the optimal experience with Plasma on your > > convertible, either wait for the port to Plasma 5 or help make it happen > > faster by contributing code / money / whatever to its development ;) > > > > Best, > > Thomas > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Active mailing list > > Active@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active > Very good news Thomas > > Cheers > > Wolfgang >
This is indeed an important area to investigate. I was discussing with David (another Plasma devel) this week that maybe we should get a laptop of those for testing. It's kind of hard to push this kind of things without the hardware... ;) Either way, the infrastructure is there, now it just needs the love. Cheers! Aleix
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