Plasma has started to show its power as a development framework with the Plasma Netbook workspace shell. Not only a desktop shell effort, Plasma Netbook was the start to bring KDE to the next level, making it a real competitor to other solutions for netbook devices. At least due to the success of the Plasma Netbook idea to create software suited for a mobile device, we started thinking about what a KDE phone look like. Instead of "putting your desktop" inside a different device, we are now thinking about how it would be possible for us to have a KDE-based mobile phone in the future. Dividing and konquering, Plasma Mobile aims at creating a new experience for mobile phones, showing how KDE technology can enrich the user experience and bring more integration between the machines that are around the user, while simultaneously removing the focus from them and giving it to the user and his tasks.

1. KDE in Your Life
From Desktop to Pocket
Artur Duque de Souza (MoRpHeUz)
Jan. 16, 2010 – Camp KDE – San Diego – USA

2. About Me
• Open source developer since 1997
• Contributions: Canola2, MythTV, HLBR, EFL,
Maemo, MPlayer, KDE, etc.
• Mainly a Plasma developer
• openBossa developer
• Present → work oriented to Qt

3. KDE: User Experience

4. Users and Software
Users are interested in getting things
done – it's all about user experience

5. What - Where - How
User's context

6. From Desktop to Netbook
Growing by getting smaller

7. Lessons Learned
Custom UI for different devices

8. Lessons Learned
Applications
KDE Applications and small screens

9. Lessons Learned
Look & Feel
openSUSE example: Firefox / OpenOffice

10. N900
A big chance

11. Transition
To a Qt based device

12. Qt Everywhere
~ KDE Everywhere

13. KDE Applications
Without the custom KDE shell

14. Services

15. Different services in use
(Google, Ovi, OpenDesktop)

16. Merge information / functionality
Integration between services
ie: N900's contacts / phone

17. Setup Hell
One single place to rule them all
ie: OpenDesktop's KCM

18. Key Technologies

19. Remote Content
Make the what 'happen' anywhere
(Plasma Remote Widgets)

20. QML
Tell Qt how it should look like:
declarative languages, a new approach

21. Akonadi
Mobile port
First things first

22. Akonadi
Export / Share Data
Akonadi should help merging, finding and
sharing data about our contacts

23. Scripting
Avoid shell crashes and malicious code

24. We need help :)

25. Design & Usability
First step! A lot of benefits

26. Use Case
Start from a clear and simple use case

27. Example – Hyper UI

28. Example – Hyper UI

29. Example – Hyper UI

30. Example – Hyper UI

31. Example – Hyper UI

32. Issues ?

33. Build System
Scratchbox is not so nice

34. Lack of man power
Too many things to work on

35. Too many directions
Desktop + Netbook + Mobile

36. Magic numbers
July / 2010: KDE SC 4.5 and KDE 3.5

37. Big Thanks
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Camp KDE organizers
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Alexis Menard
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Little room's staff ;)

38. Questions ?
asouza@kde.org
artur.souza@openbossa.org
http://blog.morpheuz.cc
Thank you =)