On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:13 PM, Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote: > > Yay, I like it. > > Across different operating systems? We don't do anything on Windows or Mac. > > Jonathan > > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 09:40:28AM +0200, Jens Reuterberg wrote: >> Time to get back to the vision. >> >> ---- Plasma Vision 2 ---- >> >> Plasma Desktop is a cross device work environment where total trust is put on >> the user's capacity to best define her own workflow and preferences. >> >> Plasma is simple by default, a clean work area for real world usage which >> intends to stay out of your way. >> Plasma is powerful when needed, enabling the user to create the workflows >> that >> make her more effective to complete her tasks. >> >> Plasma never dictates the user's needs, it only strives to solve them. Plasma >> never defines what the user should be allowed to do, it only ensures that she >> can. >> >> Our motivation is that we enable actual work to happen, across devices, >> across >> different operating systems, using any application needed. >> >> We build to be durable, we create to be usable, we design to be interesting. >> >> ------------------------ >> >> Reasoning behind the vision: >> The key aspects of it is that Plasma is "Cross Device" - we state that as >> clearly as possible. "Simple by default, powerful when needed" has to be >> repeated within it to hammer that in as that is, in many ways a communicative >> tool we really want associated with Plasma. >> >> Removed Desktop Environment after last one as that was seen as too much >> "computer" and too little "Mobile" etc. >> >> The focus is "work" and "tasks", IRL stuff focusing on a user that needs to >> solve an actual problem instead of an attempt to create further ones through >> complexity. At the same time we want to ensure that we never strip the user >> of >> options (this is one of the weak points in the vision - more on that below) >> >> Finally its the poetic vitruvian line at the end: Firmitas, Utilitas, >> Venustatis. That something is "well built" or "durable", that something is >> "usable" (from a users perspective easy to use) and finally "beautiful" or >> interesting to use - inspiring usage. Build/Create/Design is intended not as >> work roles ("designer" etc) but something we all do ("designing the system" >> for example). >> >> ------------------------ >> >> Feedback, spellchecking, grammar checking and just "yay" or "neigh" wanted. >> >> /Jens
Plasma Desktop doesn't work on Windows/OS X, but we know our users will be using different systems on different machines: maybe Android or iOS on the phone, maybe OS X or Windows at work or at home. When developing Plasma we need to keep that in mind and leverage it. Aleix