KDE Plasma running on Nexus 5
 

Some hot news https://dot.kde.org/2015/07/25/plasm...obile-platform
and a video Plasma Mobile Prototype

Re: KDE Plasma running on Nexus 5
 

in what way is it able to run android apps? with a licensed VM ?

Re: KDE Plasma running on Nexus 5
 

android apps? seems you read/watch something wrong, not Plasma Mobile.

Re: KDE Plasma running on Nexus 5
 

More details should be presented tomorrow, but they are developing a "collection of Android systems and frameworks as minimal as possible, built to run on a standard, modern linux system, using as much of the standard system as possible, and created to be Free/Libre from its inception" called Shashlik.

There is a git repository here : https://github.com/shashlik/shashlik

Re: KDE Plasma running on Nexus 5
 

It does look interesting...
it has potential ..
see how far they can take it..

Re: KDE Plasma running on Nexus 5
 

Thanks for the heads up. I certainly like the idea of Plasma returning to mobile (I am running Plasma 5 on my laptop for few months now and it's rock solid), but I noticed two things:

• I understand that convergence is not an easy task and you can't avoid buttons, but the UI looks like it's been made by an Android user. I'd like to see something more user friendly.
• Throughout the video, I was waiting to see a multitasking view or a task switcher. I hope that the use of 'Ubuntu Touch technologies' doesn't mean sporting the crippled multitasking as well.

But not to solely criticize: Yay for Wayland and Plasmoids! :)

Re: KDE Plasma running on Nexus 5
 

why does everyone obsess with the buttons at the bottom.

Re: KDE Plasma running on Nexus 5
 

I think the first button on the navigation bar calls the task switcher. This forum post has a proposal for the task switcher, but no mention if it was merged.

Re: KDE Plasma running on Nexus 5
 

Huge icons, dated UX, this doesn't seem like they've pulled in a modern IXD at all.

Still looks better than FirefoxOS and perhaps Ubuntu Touch.

Re: KDE Plasma running on Nexus 5
 

More news and links :
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...-Plasma-Mobile
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...lasma-Mobile-2
http://plasma-mobile.org/