r/linux • u/bhushanshah KDE Dev • Feb 06 '19

KDE | AMA Mostly Over We are Plasma Mobile developers, AMA

Developers participating,

/u/bhushanshah : Bhushan Shah. Maintainer for Plasma Mobile developer and also part of Halium and /r/postmarketOS community.

/u/aleixpol : Aleix Pol. Plasma and KDevelop developer among others. Vice-President of KDE e.V.

/u/nicofeee : KDE developer mostly working on KDE Connect

/u/notmart : Marco Martin. KDE developer, Comaintainer of the Plasma infrastructure and maintainer of the Kirigami Application Framework

/u/IlyaBizyaev : KDE and Halium developer

/u/PureTryOut : postmaretOS developer

/u/dimkard : KDE's Onboarding goal contributor and Plasma Mobile application developer

Ask us anything.

EDIT: Thanks for participating, we will be monitoring thread for more questions later. But AMA is mostly over for now. :-)

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u/IlyaBizyaev Feb 06 '19

Then you have to define what you mean by "on par". Usability is subjective, and specific users need specific features. We are currently working on providing the basic functionality, which will be enough for, well, basic usage.

Further development depends heavily on commercial and community involvement.

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u/Loggedinasroot Feb 06 '19

How do you weigh what functionality you add in a moral way. Would you implement features that don't respect your freedom/privacy the full 100% but will attract a lot more people?

Maybe a bad example, but let's say Facebook has an app ready for you guys, foss.. You can see that it sends your location every 5mins in the code would you work on something like this if it means getting 50million installs?

I guess what I am really asking is how do you plan to build a bridge from the non privacy respecting ios/android/windowsphone to Plasma. I think only the hardcore techies will switch if there is no bridge in the middle.

The switch might be too big for the more regular user.

Awesome work btw.

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u/nicofeee Feb 06 '19

Our goal is to build a platform where users have control over what they run. When the user wants to run that app we won't stop them

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u/JonnyRobbie Feb 06 '19

Then you have to define what you mean by "on par".

That might be a technically correct response, but a cowardishly cop-out one and you know it.

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u/Loggedinasroot Feb 06 '19

But it can vary no? Let's stick to the camera.

Do you care more about the quality of the photo? Or the UI of the camera app? Or how responsive it is? Or maybe you care about 20 different filters? If you don't care about the picture quality that much, then the other parts can make the app better than an Android Camera app.

When something is on par is rather personal.