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Project Goals

The principal objective is to bring to mobile 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

Braindump from the Developer Summit (for archive purposes)

On Screen Keyboard

http://www.notmart.org/index.php/Software/On_screen_keyboard

Plasma Mobile

Plasma Mobile (to package)

Seed

Liquid seed

What needs improvement

  • Display Manager
    • kdm
      • Add plugin support
        • Write plugins for different types of authentication
        • Write plugin to unlock GSM PIM
      • On Screen Keyboard
      • Create another source package for it from kdebase-workspace?
      • Remove xdmcp
      • ??? - leave it lighter as possible
  • Window Manager
    • kwin
      • Add opengles support
      • Check with upstream what needs improvement
      • leave it lighter - Will we remove any feature?
  • kdelibs
    • there are discussions about splitting it
    • we need to join this discussion
  • PIM

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

      • Till already got it working on n900
      • Till and Henri(mindgard2) will work to add support for midgard2 (that means sqlite support)
      • Ubuntu One?
  • KPackageKit
  • Office

    • Koffice - packaged

  • QWS and Lighthouse
    • Investigate
    • package it
    • needs a different build of qt?
  • Footprint
    • may still be large for maverick
    • for maverick+1 work to get it small

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'

Discussions

Roadmap

Lucid Roadmap (needs updating)

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