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Plasma Active 3 will get a completely new file browser based on Nepomuk and QML.

The developer Marco Martin introduced the new file browser as a central element of Plasma Active 3 in front of his blog. The File Browser relies largely on the Nepomuk framework and therefore does not like ordinary file manager. Rather, the user can access files stored in the tablet as by type or by creation date or sort of multi-touch gestures to select or tag. Furthermore, the application includes a viewer.
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On Saturday, January 28, one of the developers of KDE Aaron Seigo on his blog announced the imminent release to the market a new Tablet PC, Spark, which will be pre-production environment Plasma Active.

The computer will run Linux, the hardware is modest, but adequate:

• 1GHz processor AMLogic presumably AML8726-M Cortex-A9
• Mali-400 graphics card
• 512 MB of RAM
• 4 GB of internal memory
• capacitive multi-touch display 800×480
• WiFi
• Slot for SD-cards
• two USB-ports

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The KDE project has completed the first version of Active Plasma, published on a mobile device fitted surface.

Active plasma was in development for some time and now the first official version reached. It is a variant of the KDE Plasma desktop, which like the netbook version is optimized for small screens, but also on touch screens. Moreover, plasma uses Active a new paradigm, in which the applications are no longer, but the focus of activities and data.

Active plasma displays when you start a list of activities. Each activity, documents, contacts, websites, media and widgets associated with it. The number of assignments is unlimited. With the “Share Like Connect” icon you can add an object directly to an activity, such as enhanced bookmarks icons work.

A launcher to launch applications is available. Each application will be automatically linked to the currently running activity. By default, some applications are included that are optimized for touch screens, including a web browser, an image viewer, media player Bangarang Active, a viewer for Office documents with simple editing (beta Calligra Active), full email and calendaring (Kontact Touch) and several games.
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With the touch screens and tablets designed to Active Desktop Plasma One is the KDE project with applications from one desktop enriched.

Activities that used by the developers concept allows the user to combine different applications but also to documents and websites under one-window activity, such as those which belong to the hobby of the user. If the current activity starts, there is a unified selection glance. The number of features is endless and also gathered the number of possible activities. Between the Activities of the users switched to using the Activity Switcher.

Peek at Launch: Applications can be started in this way and started selecting.

The start of KDE applications have been designed in addition, show that the so-called application Peek all running and installed applications. Between the running applications you will then select just not started are shown as icons.
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In his keynote describes Intel’s open source director of the difficult relationship between corporations and open-source projects and illustrates what still needs to be changed so that the Linux desktop has a real chance.

Dirk Hohndel is no stranger to the open source world. Ex-CEO of SUSE is now at Intel chief of the open source development. As such, his employer sent him also to events like the Desktop Summit in order to keep keynotes. For the Desktop Summit 2011 Hohndel had the theme “Big Companys and open source” is assumed and some handy tips from his own experience on both sides of the alleged rift.

Well-attended: The Desktop Summit 2011 in Berlin

He found the entrance with a very personal example: KDE and Gnome are a huge success story, says Hohndel.

“We are fortunate to have more than one alternative.” But: While the new desktops are far away, thank God from the Windows 95 look and feel of yesteryear, but unfortunately sneak here and there, but “Steve-Jobs-attitudes” one. He was tested before the conference, both the latest version of KDE (4.7) and Gnome (3), he says. But then he had been made ​​a serious mistake: Unfortunately, he then has a Google + – thread posted his opinion on KDE and Gnome.

That in turn have taken him some users and developers ill, Hohndel. Prior to the setting “Do it like we want, then you have no problems” should beware of the open source community, he said. He wished, rather a switch for so many features to enable users who are overtaxed, Such things could easily turn off.
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