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Project Goals

The principal objective is to support devices which do not have hardware accelerated graphics and to bring to these devices the latest updates available in the Ubuntu world. Associated aims are to build a community around the release and for the release to be as 'light' as possible.

It will be built using the Ubuntu infrastructure for creating a distribution. To help out with the development please join the Liquid Hackers team

Blueprint

Liquid

To Do

The blueprint above is always updated with the current To Do list.

Go there after setting up the development environment

Setting up the Development Environment

KDE Library Changes

Braindump from the Developer Summit (for archive purposes)

Packaging Plasmoids

Plasmaboard Virtual keyboard Applet

Developing Plasmoids

Plasma Tutorial

Plasma Mobile

Plasma Mobile (to package)

Seed

Liquid seed

What will be used

• Network management

  • plasma-widget-network-manager -> plasma-widget-networkmanagement - packaged

• Virtual Keyboard

  • plasma-widget-plasmaboard - packaged

• Bluetooth

  • kdebluetooth - packaged

• Games

  • plasma-widget-pgame - packaged

• Browser

  • Chrome - this is getting lots of work in the Lucid cycle - packaged

• Display Manager
  • kdm
    • Create another source package for it from kde-workspace
    • Remove xdmcp
    • ??? - leave it lighter as possible
• Window Manager
  • kwin
    • Create another source package for it from kde-workspace
    • ??? - Will we remove any feature?
• PIM

  • akonadi? ScottK -- KDAB is also doing an embedded version of Akonadi - packaged

  • QMF/QTMail - ńeeds packaging

    A good comparison of the above two choices

    http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-mobility

    http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-labs/messagingframework

• Office

  • Koffice - packaged

Nice to Have Features

• Investigate using sheevaplug debian-installer from Martin Michlmayr journal http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html

  • Make it easy to install and update
• google gadgets integration - google-gadgets-qt
• Run apps from:

  • Android http://mjfrey.blogspot.com/2009/05/hacking-android-on-ubuntu.html

  • Maemo

  • WebOS html/css/javascript Webkit? Mozilla Prism?

• Create/Use a SDK to attract more developers. It would be nice to have a consistent,centralized,easy way for developers to create application for Ubuntu/Ubuntu Liquid
• Investigate ways to reduce energy usage

Release Name

After the politics of the release are sorted out and we get round to actually releasing something, it will be called 'Original Liquid Vibe'

Packages to Update

Discussions

• Discussion about plasma-mobile @plasma-devel http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2009-November/009185.html

Roadmap

Lucid Roadmap (needs updating)