On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Alexander Neundorf <neund...@kde.org> wrote:
people can buy a tablet with e.g. plasma mobile pre-installed is VERY hard, > probably not doable, and I think the Vivaldi team tried really hard. > From my POV for mobile/embedded that's actually even harder than for PCs, > where you have standardized hardware. > > So, do we see a place where it could take off ? > > Sure we do. About 3.5 years ago, I made a proposal to run KDE software on Android Core instead of Mer: http://www.elpauer.org/2012/09/plasma-active-on-android/ Two weeks ago, at Akademy-es, when I saw the current status of Plasma Mobile (essentially only works where Ubuntu Phone works), I asked. What Bhushan is doing is very good: LXC containers on top of CyanogenMod. That opens Plasma Mobile to essentially every platform where CyanogenMod works. It is a huge leap from the current state of affairs. What I would like to see is one step further, the same proposal I made 3.5 years ago: get rid of Android UI and run Plasma Mobile on top of Android Core. In fact, let's have a "Plasma Mobile ROM Cooker" that takes an official ROM for your Android device, de-Androidizes it, and then injects Plasma Mobile for Android Core (I think Boot to Qt does something in that line). That would make Plasma Mobile run on essentially every Android device with an unlocked bootloader, and quick: hardware support comes from Android Core. Chinese Android TV box retailers in AliExpress are already offering (and doing) to replace Android with OpenELEC (I ported OpenELEC myself to one of those boxes!). No warranty and everything but they do it and you receive a TV Box with a pure Linux OpenELEC. It would not be crazy to provide them with Android Core-based Plasma Mobile ROM sfor a few popular phones (THL, XiaoMi, Doogee, ZTE, etc), and see if they want to sell them. In fact, as of today, if you want a Jolla tablet with Sailfish, they fastest and cheapest way is to buy the tablet from a Chinese retailer in TaoBao and ask them to install the Sailfish OS 2.0 ROM (they explicitly advertise it!). -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org
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