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Active three

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Today we have a new release of Plasma Active: quite some time passed since the last release last year.

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Sent from mart on 15/10/2012 at 6:47:01 — comments: 0Digg it



Notifications, let the redesign begin

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So, it seems it's that time of the year again... the plasmoid used in KDE Plasma Desktop to display notifications and the progress of transfer jobs started to really show its age, due to some bad limitations in the old QGraphicsview code to handle complex layouts, so it appeared quite buggy and not so smooth to use. Yes, I'm aware that sometimes it started to dance resizing itself several times in a row, and there wasn't much to be done on that regard... Until now :D

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Sent from mart on 20/09/2012 at 14:02:05 — comments: 35Digg it



Maliit and Plasma Active

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Until now Plasma active had an on screen keyboard that served us well, but due to its implementation had some limits that couldn't be easily overcome.

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Sent from mart on 21/05/2012 at 14:06:01 — comments: 9Digg it



Plasma Active resource browser

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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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Sent from mart on 17/04/2012 at 12:57:34 — comments: 10Digg it



Plasma active device profiles documentation

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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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Sent from mart on 25/01/2012 at 14:40:54 — comments: 2Digg it



Plasma Active Two

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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. Plasma Active Two

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Sent from mart on 14/12/2011 at 9:44:34 — comments: 1Digg it



Components towards a new plasma

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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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Sent from mart on 27/11/2011 at 11:53:10 — comments: 14Digg it



Humanizing metal and electrons

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Let me talk briefly about one of the goals we have about Plasma Active, of which today's release of Active One is just a little baby step in this yet important direction.

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Sent from mart on 09/10/2011 at 12:12:28 — comments: 7Digg it



We are One

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Aaaand, we have a release:

Plasma Active One

Makes me feel proud, together with everybody that worked on it, and as explained yesterday is kinda a weird feeling seeing this finally released ;).

I hope you enjoy our first release of Plasma Active!

Sent from mart on 09/10/2011 at 10:58:59 — comments: 4Digg it



Share, Like and Connect

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An important part of the Plasma Active Contour user interface is the connection between the objects that i can view with my tablet, like images, webpages, and documents with the current activity, to help to organize your work and fun.

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Sent from mart on 04/09/2011 at 11:23:18 — comments: 4Digg it