Description
Plasma Mobile was introduced 2 years ago in Akademy 2015 with simple vision of,
- Providing control over your data and communication
- Being Pragmatic and inclusive
- Seamless cross-device experience
- Openness
This in my opinion really aligns with the current KDE community vision and mission. So, I want to propose a goal where we improve and polish the Plasma Mobile platform for the end-user needs. However I don't want to keep this goal limited to just Plasma Mobile platform but also should be inclusive towards the other mobile platforms if user can't install the Plasma Mobile on their device, in that case user should be able to install and use the KDE products and services on their mobile devices.
What it will take
It will take the coordinated effort from community to improve and optimize the Plasma Mobile platform and also make it possible to run our applications on Mobile platform where it makes sense.
We will need help from the,
- Application developers
- Plasma developers (for mobile shell)
- UI/UX designers
- Usability experts
- Platform and Foundations developers
- Hardware experts
How we know we succeeded
In my opinion this will be called a success when,
- User will be able to easily install Plasma Mobile on their devices
- User will be able to use Plasma Mobile as their daily driver
- Most of the KDE Applications are compatible with mobile devices (where it makes sense, of course you wouldn't want kdevelop on your phone)
- Push of Kirigami as the go-to framework to build mobile and convergent applications
This is really long-term goal, but we should do whatever needs to be done in my opinion.
Relevant links (in no chronological order)
- Plasma Mobile announcement
- postmarketOS announcement highlighting various issues with current mobile platforms
- GNU on Smartphones part 2
- FSFE's Priority project page for Free phone operating system.
- Halium Announcement
- Librem 5 - A Security and Privacy Focused Phone from Purism
- Introducing the PinePhone - KDE Community edition
I am willing to put work into this
- Bhushan Shah
- Eike Hein
- Sebastian Kügler
- Martin Flöser
- Thomas Pfeiffer
- Aleix Pol
- Marco Martin
- Ilya Bizyaev
- Luis Falcón
I am interested
- Adrián Chaves (@adrianchavesfernandez)
- Gregor Mi (@gregormi)
- GreatEmerald (@GreatEmerald)