Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hacking device

Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin... by agumonkey on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @05:50PM (#12859676)

I never liked KDE looks nor ergonomics. Nor their attempts at grand projects (plasma makes me cringe everytime I see the word now). But I appreciate "simpler" open linux platform for smartphones. Wish them the best.

ps: I was actually looking into FDroid to free myself a little from Android locks, wishing for a simple linux + ssh + any signed code I wish.

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Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin... by macco on Thursday November 03, 2016 @04:40AM (#12862400)

Me too, then I tried Plasma 5.8 and I am delighted. It is by far the best DE I ever used - and yes, macOS included.

The polish it has is unbelievable.

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Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin... by agumonkey on Thursday November 03, 2016 @08:03AM (#12863258)

Around KDE 5 first releases I had a thing for it. But I had what resembles javascript fatigue. The KDE world was too much of a moving target; also, but that's on me, I was fed up with DEs, except for the basics GUI (think OS2, Win3/95) I felt they provided no value over emacs, so that's what I ended up with wmii,emacs,chrome.

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Re:Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hackin... by canada_dry on Sunday November 06, 2016 @01:02AM (#12883780)

Well, the bar is pretty damn low in Unity (IMHO)... terribly inconsistent UI e.g. they seldom follow long set conventions on how field focus and basic keyboarding behavior should work in windows and dialogs. I find it very, very frustrating and am giving KDE plasma a shot.

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