{"id":6223,"date":"2013-06-15T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T17:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/?p=6223"},"modified":"2013-06-15T17:50:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T17:50:19","slug":"plasma-workspace-present-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/plasma-workspace-present-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Plasma Workspace: present and future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We saw last week the release of the first beta of KDE Plasma Workspace and applications 4.11<\/p>\n<p>From my side, that&#8217;s a very important milestone, because it&#8217;s pretty much the coronation of what we intended the 4.x series of the workspace to be. It was a long ride, but I think this future release will be pretty stable and &#8220;defined&#8221; in its own identity.<\/p>\n<p>The 4.11 release of the Workspace will be supported for years to come, marking in fact the last big feature release of the 4.x series.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds pretty scary, but it indicates a lot of maturity, 4.11 will be a release you can count on being maintained abd bugs fixed for a long time. Nice for home users, utterly awesome for bigger deployments.<\/p>\n<p>Just to clarify: this regards only Plasma Workspace so far. Applications will continue feature releases as usual, after all KDE is not a software, is a community that releases a lot of eterogeneous pieces of software.<\/p>\n<p>So, were are now?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The desktop shell is useful by default. A default setup has all the typical functionality that a typical desktop usage needs, but.. one size does not fit all.<\/li>\n<li>The desktop shell is very flexible, trying to not force a paradigm on you, assemmble it at your liking.<\/li>\n<li>We have at least 5 different shells: Desktop, Netbook, Plamsa Active, Media center, part for application dashboards. Because one size does not fit all, on different devices we try to give you the best experience given the particular device.<\/li>\n<li>QML: It&#8217;s very easy to write new components for your desktop\/tablet\/mediacenter\/whatever with an easy scripting language.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But of course we never are happy: we want to do new things and have new features in the future..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We are porting to Qt5 and QML2<\/li>\n<li>The whole workspace will be rendered by the GPU: faster and will be possible to have beautiful effects.<\/li>\n<li>We will have one shell to rule them all: the actual Plasma Shell becomes just a generic &#8220;viewer&#8221; with no UI whatsoever by itself. Since all the UI elements will be done by QML, they can be loaded and unloaded, so a different device experience can be dynamically loaded when for instance you plug your tablet to a docking station, the full Desktop shell starts.<\/li>\n<li>Even tough it will mean a quite big <em>technology<\/em> change, since we are quite happy with the overall direction of each one of our shells, there won&#8217;t be radical UI changes, except of course the usual incremental upgrades and refinements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll do a talk about Plasma2 at Akademy, going a bit more in deep about the technology, the big picture concept and how to get involved in, so see you there \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/akademy2013.kde.org\/sites\/akademy2013.kde.org\/files\/Ak2013Badge2.png\" alt=\"I'm going to Akademy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw last week the release of the first beta of KDE Plasma Workspace and applications 4.11 From my side, that&#8217;s a very important milestone, because it&#8217;s pretty much the coronation of what we intended the 4.x series of the workspace to be. 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