What’s new in Plasma Active? | Linux Today

What’s new in Plasma Active?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 14, 2011

“We’ve been busy bees in the growing Plasma Active team, so it’s
time to post some progress updates. In case you forgot, Plasma
Active is a KDE project to create a desirable user experience for
the device spectrum, with its first focus to create a system
suitable for tablet computers. In my first post about Plasma
Active, you can see the basic shell running on a 10 inch Viewsonic
Viewtab.

“In this post, I’m using a Wetab to demo the current state of
Plasma Active. The Wetab is one of our test devices. It’s a nice
target device since it’s Intel Atom-based, which makes building
Plasma Active a bit easier, and thus shortens our
development-testing-deployment cycles considerable. “

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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