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KDE Plasma Active: the Mobile Interface That Works

Posted by timothy on from the hold-it-in-your-hand dept.

jrepin writes "Bruce Byfield is not a fan of interfaces for mobile devices. At best, he finds them clumsy makeshifts, tolerable only because nothing better is available. The only exception is KDE's Plasma Active, which not only works well on tablets, but, with its recently released version 3.0, remains the only mobile-inspired interface he can tolerate on a workstation."

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  1. Looks interesting... by xkpe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Looking at the video it has some interesting concepts to make it more usable on touch devices, but to some point they still rely in rather small buttons that are hard to touch.
    It also seems very slow but it might be a debug version.

  2. An article about a GUI with no pictures by oic0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What is this? radio? just show us some pictures of it and let us come to our own conclusions instead of telling us what we should think lol.

  3. Re:The sheer stupidity of modern GUI developers by camperdave · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because, more and more, laptops are being used as workstations. In addition, more and more laptops are being produced with touch screens, if not flat out convertibility to tablets. The line between mobile device and workstation is not as sharply delineated as you want it to be.

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