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This year with basysKom working on Plasma Active has been very productive, I got to work with really amazing people and I really think we produced something really good.

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Sadly I didn't have much time to blog lately, but luckily today i found some time to do a screencast like the good ol' times.

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The thing we always stressed out in Plasma Active is how the system is designed to fit a whole device spectrum, even if the first two releases are explicitly about tablet devices (and in the near future this is not likely to change ;)

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Just a brief heads up. As you know, from now on the recomended way to write plasmoids will be using QML only, and using the new components api for common widgets such as buttons, sliders etc.

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The rewamp of the KDE Plasma Desktop is continuing: in the 4.8 release it got a completely new QML based device notifier (already quite improved for 4.9), now a new redesign has landed in master, scheduled for the 4.9 release of KDE Plasma Desktop.

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the irc meeting to work on documentation on the Plasma QML components will be held at thursday 22, starting from 09 am UTC in the #plasma irc channel, will go on as long as necessary, as long there will be people there ;)

One of the priorities in Plasma (desktop and active) is to have a compelling developer story, to make easy, fun and desiderable for people to write plasmoids and actve apps.

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Today, Plasma Active Two has been released. It has been a pretty hectic 3 months, a very short period that produced anyways a couple of significant architectural enhancements.

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One of the biggest new features in Plasma that will be released together KDE Plasma Desktop 4.8 is the new shiny set of QML components, that over the next releases will gradually replace the old simple widgets like pushbuttons lineedits etc.

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This is just an experiment, a tech demo if you want, but is worth mentioning since it shows how flexible the Plasma scriptengine architecture is. In brief: adding the support of a new language, a new package structure to do widgets and graphics components in some cases takes literally minutes, and then is possible to load this new kind of widgets alongside the existing ones written in c++/qml/javascript/python/whatever.

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