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KDE Community Announces Fully Open Source Plasma Mobile

Posted by timothy on from the big-tent-takes-all-comers dept.

sfcrazy writes: Today, during the Akademy event, the KDE Community announced Plasma Mobile project. It's a Free (as in Freedom and beer), user-friendly, privacy-enabling and customizable platform for mobile devices. Plasma Mobile claims to be developed in an open process, and considering the community behind it, I don't doubt it. A great line: "Plasma Mobile is designed as an ‘inclusive’ platform and will support all kinds of apps. In addition to native apps written in Qt, it also supports GTK apps, Android apps, Ubuntu apps, and many others." And if you have a Nexus 5, you can download and play with a prototype now.

3 of 44 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Plasma is for cows by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 3, Funny

    My cows are from France.
    They go "Moi".
    They are very self centered...

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  2. Re:mobile needs *something*. by lucm · · Score: 1, Funny

    the current mobile ecosystem is a mess, so we badly need an alternative

    Good idea. There's too many competing platforms that try to be the standard, so we need a new one that will really be the standard.

    https://xkcd.com/927/

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  3. Re:Yawn ... Why mobile? by lucm · · Score: 3, Funny

    KDE is the only group out there, it seems, that thinks we should have different interfaces on different devices.

    KDE is also the only group out there that thinks we should have different interfaces on the same device.

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    lucm, indeed.