A week or so ago I blogged about making Plasma components that are designed for classrooms and younger people. Since then, we've had some draft code dropped into playground, a good amount of information written on the wiki and some commitments made to testing the results in real world settings.
It is very heartwarming to see such immediate and voluminous response to a simple blog posting. I'll be taking these early results with me to Tokamak in a couple of weeks to discuss them with others there.
I hope we can get something ready for production use, even if it is something simple and basic but an improvement over the current situation, in 2009.
Input, both of the data gathering as well as the code writing variety, are still welcome, desired and needed.
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Just a random thought: has anyone considered creating an EEE style desktop redux for users who don't understand computers? There should be data from the EEE lieing around the net somewhere that would show if it's a good idea or not.
@Ben: I was thinking of doing a menu similar to Sugar for KDE4 but with focus on touch interface for my EeePC 901. I'm not a developper, but I have a friend that is, so is KDevelop4 all we need to use?
Even if it doesn't make it onto the next OLPC, it would work great for a MID.
we are very open to UI experiements on the desktop.
plasma lets us engage in such experiments without rewriting any of the core infrastrucutre, simply by writing new widgets and/or containments.
kdevelop is all you need, though kate, kwrite, vim, emacs, $TEXT_EDITOR will also do just fine =)
I'm don't understand computer... =)
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Thanks Aaron!
I'll be ready with some mockups within 2 weeks on the kde-usability mailing list.
Happy Chinese New Year! Gong Xi Fa Cai!
@doriano sounds interesting, I'd offer to help but considering how little progress I made on adding config options for job notifications to the systray I probably should get a lot more practice before I make any commitments.
Still its nice to see that Aaron's vision for Plasma was right, I can't wait to see what kind of special purpose desktops appear once the idea spreads.
I installed Eeebuntu with the netbook remix interface, and it's painful how well plasma would be suited for this use. I like the idea as in netbook remix, but the implentation is pretty crappy, just slapped on top of the normal gnome desktop.
With 4.2 the plasma desktop is really starting to make sense. The network manager plasmoid rocks even in this early stage.. Everything just feels so damn slick! Good work to all involved.
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