I first learned about Plasma Active on a KDE User Experience sprint in April 2011. Sebastian Kügler was talking about their new project called Plasma Active, which aimed to bring the KDE experience to devices other than desktops, laptops and netbooks. It would provide a framework for application creators to easily adapt their UIs to different [...]
Plasma Active Gains New eBook Reader, Performance Gains
Plasma Active, one of the most innovative things to appear in the tablet space in some time, reaches version 3 today. With it comes a truckload of goodies. From the project page: KDE has released the 3rd stable version of Plasma Active, KDE’s device-independent user experience. The Plasma Active user interface is touch-friendly and works [...]
[Sneak Peek] Vivaldi Content Store Shows Ankles For The Cinematograph
Our good friends over at opentablets.org have posted a video from aseigo’s blog demoing the beginnings of the Make-Play-Live content store. No word yet on whether that name is official, but it does drape itself quite dramatically across the application’s login screen. The application is clearly very early on in development and there isn’t much [...]
7 Mobile Operating Systems You Might Never Use
Diamonds– err, Emeralds– In The Rough With iOS and Android dominating the mobile space, it’s sometimes hard to remember that it’s actually a congested and cluttered market. They are quite a few operating systems that are either in an incubating period, or already in your local Verizon store vying for your attention. This attention costs a lot [...]
KDE 5.0: 4 Things We Want To See
KDE 5.0, The Future Is The Past As you probably already know, Qt 5 Alpha has been released for your consumption by Nokia labs. As we move closer to mid-life for KDE 4.8, we can see KDE 4.9 looming around the corner. With a 4.9 release by the KDE team and an alpha quality build [...]
OpenTablets.org: A Brand New Community For Mobile Open Source!
A fresh new community has recently come together in the form of OpenTablets.org. The brain-child of Matthias Lee, the community’s primary effort centers around MakePlayLive’s premier tablet, Vivaldi. There is a lot of productive discussion there concerning Plasma Active, and making it run proper on this device, but the community also welcomes discussion about any [...]
Meet Vivaldi: It’s Got A Real “Spark” For Open-Source!
Meet Vivaldi, the new opensource tablet from the gang over at MakePlayLive. You might already know a thing or two about the Vivaldi, because it used to be called the KDE ‘Spark’ Tablet. What you should really know is that at heart, it is just a giant Google Nexus S. But what makes it so [...]
Get A KDE Spark Tablet RIGHT NOW!
The KDE Spark Tablet is now called Vivaldi! Check It Out! Potential buyers have been clamoring over the new KDE Spark tablet. Though predicted to perform otherwise, demand has been incredibly high as suggested by the sheer volume of pre-orders over at Make-Play-Live. Well, you don’t have to wait in line… The Spark tablet is [...]