Indeed I have. If you want to start such a project, I would certainly be interested in joining. Plasma Active is basically untested because I don't have a mobile device with Gentoo and installing it on a normal computer leads to display sizing issues, but I welcome any suggestions or bug reports you have for that. What I would really like to see come out of this is some pre-made Gentoo stage4s for different kinds of devices, which I think would be a big draw for users.
Chris Reffett On 8/13/2013 1:09 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Benda, > > while I won't have the time to contribute much, I would like to tell you that > this is definitely a very cool and worthwhile project! I think you should make > a project page and sign yourself up as team lead immediately... :) > > Chris Reffett from KDE team has done already a lot of work on packaging Plasma > Active, see http://plasma-active.org/ - it's in the KDE overlay but mostly > untested so far. You might be interested! > > Best, > Andreas > >> Dear Fellows, >> >> Canonical is raising money by pushing their concept of Ubuntu for >> Android[1][2]. The idea is to put GNU environment (esp. Ubuntu userland) >> in parallel to Android to drive the external HDMI output with X11 >> protocal, so that desktop applications can run on the smartphone. >> >> The idea is cool, but not new. The idea is general to all android >> devices, while Canonical is binding the concept with its own new device. >> >> The project is developed underground by Canonical, so far nothing, not >> to say repository, is available except advertisements and the call for >> people to donate. >> >> As a natual consequence of the on-going Google Summer of Code project, >> Gentoo on Android[3], we can run native Gentoo on *all* the Android >> devices. Compiling out an Xorg and output to HDMI has no theoretical >> difficulty. Furthermore, sharing of graphic output with Android (instead >> of a separate HDMI output) can be explored with wayland x11[4]. >> >> I feel sorry to the behavior of Canonical. We, people from the Gentoo >> community, can show the general public what is the cooperative way to >> develop desktop/smartphone hybrid to benefit all. >> >> I would like to kick out a sub-project of Gentoo targeting smartphone >> and tablets. It would be nice to find out a solution based on Gentoo for >> desktop/smartphone hybrid *before* Canonical's release. >> >> Comments welcome. >> >> Cheers, >> Benda >> >> 1. http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android >> 2. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge >> 3. http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/~benda/projects/android.html >> 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29
