Plasma Active is innovative technology for a smarter mobile user experience…the latest member of the Plasma Workspaces family from KDE. The touchscreen interface is more than just an application launcher. Rather than the commonplace grid of applications, an Activity view shows a single project, task or idea, gathering all related documents, people, web sites, media and widgets. By creating multiple Activities, a mobile [...]

    Vgrade is a MeeGo community member that has been increasingly involved with the Mer Project and also Plasma Active. Below he talks about his journey with these technologies so far: Since the Intel Announcement of MeeGo a small team has formed around the Mer project (wiki.merproject.org) with a view to produce a small core set of packages required to build devices from interactive [...]

    Here is some installation instructions for installing Plasma Active courtesy of the KDE Wiki: Installing Plasma Active Live Images These can be used as testing base and to track progress. Balsam Professional open-slx creates regularly updated packages of Balsam Professional for Plasma Active. You can try the Live ISO from a USB stick. Download the Balsam Professional live image, which is based on [...]

  Plasma Active brings a flexible, elegant, activity-driven user experience to a spectrum of devices. This article is part of a series of articles about different perspectives on Plasma Active. This installment looks at the user story, and aims at answering the questions “what does Plasma Active bring me as a user?”, what are the underlying concepts and how do we plan to achieve these [...]

  Looks like timoph has been a busy little bee: I spotted today that the needed KDE and plasma active packages compile succesfully for arm in theMeeGo community OBS so I just had to try to run it on top MeeGo N900 Community Edition. Heres a Video of the Action: I think the KDE people are on the right track with this and really hope that the MeeGo community edition will [...]

  After your instalment of Contour on Plasma Active goodness yesterday, you didn’t think we would will leave you like that, You know, wanting more. Well heres more !!! More of a Look at the User Interface bits without going into the technical mechanics too much.   We are totally excited about the possibilities of this project. Are you ?

  I am currently at the DeskTop Summit in Berlin and here is a demo of Contour developed by basysKom. It runs as part of Plasma Active which aims at creating a cross-device user experience for emerging devices such as tablet computers, media centers, smartphones, and more. Contour is still being developed and I can see substantial improvement since I last saw it at the [...]

  Contour is a user interface that is based on Qt and KDE Technologies like Plasma, Nepomuk and Qt Mobility and extends Plasma Active. Contour aims to be a context-sensitive user interface that adapts to current context, current activities and behavioral patterns of the user. It is part of Plasma Active, the new user experience for all kind of devices like Tablets, Smartphones, in-car or [...]