Latest revision as of 19:53, 16 June 2015

Plasma Active Images

The Plasma Active team provides official Images based on Mer for some devices.

Supported

WeTab / ExoPC

The hardware is a little outdated but you will get the most polished Plasma Active experience on this device.

Download ISO
Checksum (sha1: 51bd1ac2aea097d8e17503a92ce2781a6532491d)
Download Archive

Take a look at the installation instructions here.

Preview

Nexus 7

Even though very much already works reasonably well, there are still some glitches. So, please don’t expect a 100% working system. For detailed installation instructions, see the article on the Mer Wiki

Archos G9

Take a look at Ruedigers Blog for more information.

Nokia N950

Take a look at this OSnews article for more information.

VirtualBox

When running Plasma Active in a virtual machine, consider that performance will not be as good as when it runs naively on the devices it has been designed for. For testing, we strongly recommend running Plasma Active on a device. The following limitations need consideration when using a virtual machine instead of a real device:

Performance, especially graphics, boot and application startup might be reduced
Advanced visual effects might not be available or work correctly in the virtual machine. This can lead to degradation of certain features, performance, visual effects and possibly stability
User interfaces designed for touch-screens often work less efficiently for mouse and keyboard based input methods, or feel less natural.

For detailed installation instructions, see this installation manual.

Downstream Plasma Active

Some distributions provide Images with Plasma Active for x86 Systems.

Kubuntu Active

Current stable release of a Kubuntu remix with Plasma Active is available at

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu-active/releases/13.04/release/

Daily unstable images of a Kubuntu Active are at

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu-active/daily-live/

You can burn image to CD (e.g. with k3b) or USB (e.g. with usb-creator-kde)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto#Kubuntu

It includes an installer ubiquity.

openSUSE

PlasmaActive has been packaged for opensuse in the KDE:Active OBS Repository. Mind that it is ALPHA Quality. The apps that come with a Mer-based image might not be available and there may be bugs. Feel free to report (and fix) them or improve the packaging process. Help will be welcome!

It can be installed as follows:

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Active/openSUSE_Factory PA

zypper ref && zypper install plasma-mobile declarative-plasmoids bodega-client

If the Maliit onscreen keyboard is wanted, additionally install maliit-framework maliit-plugins maliit-inputcontext-qt4

Only i586 has been tested. To run PA4 the preferred method is to create a .xinitrc file in the home directory and add a line saying 'startactive'. Then a call to 'startx' will bring it up.

There currently is an issue with plasma-desktop beeing started automatically so the file '/usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop' needs to be (re)moved before running PlasmaActive.

There is also a LiveCD available at http://susestudio.com/a/GzMWEV/activesuse

Get started after install

Suggestions, FAQ, additional information

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-= Installing Plasma Active =
+= Plasma Active Images =
-== Balsam Professional Live Image ==
+The Plasma Active team provides official Images based on Mer for some devices.
-[http://open-slx.de open-slx] creates regularly updated packages of Balsam Professional for Plasma Active. These can be used as testing base and to track progress. You can try the Live ISO from a USB stick. Download the Balsam Professional live image, which is based on openSUSE [http://download.open-slx.com/iso/11.4/ here] (use the highest version numbered iso file).
-== Installation on openSUSE ==
+== Supported ==
-In order to install the latest development snapshots on openSUSE 11.4, you have to add two repositories to your system. These update kdelibs and kde-runtime to a patched 4.7 which contains additions in QML bindings and improvements needed to run the development version for Plasma Active. If you would like to try it in a virtual machine, we recommend Virtualbox, which provides accelerated graphics capable of "desktop effects".
+=== WeTab / ExoPC ===
-Important: this procedure '''will upgrade your KDE installation''' to snapshots of 4.7, replacing any KDE packages you have installed.  Some versions of these packages, for example kdepim4 and kdepim4-runtime, are built for a mobile target and the desktop versions of their apps '''will not run properly'''.  Running a newer version of KDE may update users' configuration files in a way that is '''not backward-compatible with previous versions''' of the applications, so it is advised to use a development installation or backup your KDE configuration.  If you don't know how to do this, '''stay with the Live image'''.
+The hardware is a little outdated but you will get the most polished Plasma Active experience on this device.
-=== Installation Recipe ===
+* [https://share.basyskom.com/plasma-active/deployment/wetab-exopc/tablet/mer/stable/basyskom-plasma-active-four-wetab-exopc-tablet-mer-release.iso Download ISO]
-==== Preparation ====
+* [https://share.basyskom.com/plasma-active/deployment/wetab-exopc/tablet/mer/stable/basyskom-plasma-active-four-wetab-exopc-tablet-mer-release-iso.sha1 Checksum] (sha1: 51bd1ac2aea097d8e17503a92ce2781a6532491d)
-As you are going to install packages from a different source, or so-called "vendor", you can make your life easier by telling zypper to automatically resolve packages across vendors. In /etc/zypp/zypp.conf, change the following line
+* [https://share.basyskom.com/plasma-active/deployment/wetab-exopc/tablet/mer/stable/ Download Archive]
-solver.allowVendorChange = false
+Take a look at the installation instructions [http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/WeTab here].
-to
+== Preview ==
-solver.allowVendorChange = true
+=== Nexus 7 ===
-==== Repository Setup ====
+Even though very much already works reasonably well, there are still some glitches. So, please don’t expect a 100% working system. For detailed installation instructions, see the article on the [https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Community_Workspace/Tegra3/Nexus7/PA_installation Mer Wiki]
-Register KDE:Unstable:SC and KDE:Active repositories:
- <nowiki>
-zypper addrepo --refresh \
-   http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/47/openSUSE_11.4 kr47
-zypper addrepo --refresh \
-    http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Active/openSUSE_11.4/ plasma-active
- </nowiki>
-Increase KDE:Active packages' priority relative to KDE:Release:47, because the git snapshot versioning is otherwise lower than those in KDE:Release:47, and we want the KDE:Active versions that are built with Active-specific options:
+=== Archos G9 ===
- <nowiki>
-zypper modifyrepo --priority 90 plasma-active
- </nowiki>
-==== Package Installation ====
+Take a look at [http://ruedigergad.com/2013/02/24/plasma-active-archos-g9-armv7hl-rootfs-tarballs/ Ruedigers Blog] for more information.
-Update all packages to the latest versions, trust the keys for the repos.  NOTE: if you have other additional repositories than these registered in your system, YOU are responsible for making sure they are compatible.
- <nowiki>
-zypper dist-upgrade
- </nowiki>
-Finally, install the Plasma Active specific packages:
- <nowiki>
-zypper install plasma-tablet-config plasma-declarative-widgets share-like-connect
- </nowiki>
-This will install and setup the Plasma Active shell, which is contained in the plasma-mobile package (plasma-mobile has different sets of QML user interfaces per UI profile). zypper will ask you to accept the key. It will also suggests vendor changes for some packages. Accept these options.
+=== Nokia N950 ===
-=== Running Plasma Active ===
+Take a look at [http://www.osnews.com/story/25307/Nokia_N950_Running_Plasma_Active_on_Mer this OSnews article] for more information.
-If you have installed the plasma-tablet-config package, your system will automatically start into Plasma Active. Just make sure you have autologin enabled in Yast and restart your system.
-From a full Plasma Desktop (or Netbook) user experience, you can also switch at runtime to Plasma Active as follows (as user logged into the the X11 session):
+=== VirtualBox ===
- <nowiki>
-# Quit your plasma session
-kquitapp plasma-desktop
-or
-kquitapp plasma-netbook
-# Start Plasma Active
+When running Plasma Active in a virtual machine, consider that performance will not be as good as when it runs naively on the devices it has been designed for. For testing, we strongly recommend running Plasma Active on a device. The following limitations need consideration when using a virtual machine instead of a real device:
-plasma-tablet
+* Performance, especially graphics, boot and application startup might be reduced
+* Advanced visual effects might not be available or work correctly in the virtual machine. This can lead to degradation of certain features, performance, visual effects and possibly stability
+* User interfaces designed for touch-screens often work less efficiently for mouse and keyboard based input methods, or feel less natural.
-# It is also possible to run Plasma Active in a window,
-# this is useful for testing purposes:
-plasma-tablet --nodesktop
-</nowiki>
-=== Installation of Plasma Active from sources ===
+For detailed installation instructions, see this [http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/VirtualBox installation manual].
-While the recommended way to test Plasma Active is with the above recipe using the binary packages, it is possible to build Plasma Active from the source repository, who wants to try the bleeding edge repository can build plasma-mobile from sources.
+= Downstream Plasma Active  =
-The recommended way is to follow the usual kde from sources [http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started build instructions]. It is also possible to use the binary kde packages as a base.
-It is necessary to install some packages (and their dependencies) to have a working development environment:
+Some distributions provide Images with Plasma Active for x86 Systems.
-<nowiki>
- sudo zypper install gcc gcc-c++ git cmake, kdelibs-devel
-</nowiki>
-Now clone the plasma mobile source repository and build:
+== Kubuntu Active ==
- <nowiki>
- git clone git://anongit.kde.org/plasma-mobile
- cd plasma-mobile
+Current stable release of a Kubuntu remix with Plasma Active is available at
- mkdir build
+http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu-active/releases/13.04/release/
- cd build
+Daily unstable images of a Kubuntu Active are at
- cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
+http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu-active/daily-live/
- make
+You can burn image to CD (e.g. with k3b) or USB (e.g. with usb-creator-kde)
- sudo make install
+https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto#Kubuntu
-</nowiki>
-== MeeGo / ARM ==
+It includes an installer '''ubiquity'''.
-A repository of most of KDE components, including Plasma Active for MeeGo is at
-http://repo.pub.meego.com/Project:/KDE:/Devel/Trunk/Project:KDE:Devel.repo and is available for both i586 and ARM, which is added by running the following command
-zypper ar http://repo.pub.meego.com/Project:/KDE:/Devel/Trunk/Project:KDE:Devel.repo
+== openSUSE ==
-To install the software run the following (very long) command. This command will be replaced by a meta-package later, but for now just use this:
+PlasmaActive has been packaged for opensuse in the KDE:Active OBS Repository.
+Mind that it is ALPHA Quality. The apps that come with a Mer-based image might not be available and there may be bugs. Feel free to report (and fix) them or improve the packaging process. Help will be welcome!
-zypper install ark attica bomber bovo cagibi calligra clucene-core contour dolphin dolphin-plugins filelight grantlee iodbc iodbc-admin kaddressbook kapman kcalc kcharselect kde-baseapps kde4-filesystem kde4-kgreeter-plugins kdebase-runtime kdebase-runtime-desktoptheme kdebase-runtime-emoticons kdebase-runtime-nepomuk kdebase-runtime-netattach kdebase-runtime-newstuff kdebase-runtime-plasma kdebase-runtime-solid kdebase-runtime-sounds kdebase-runtime-thumbnail-plugins kdebase-runtime-wallet kdebase4-libkonq kdebase4-workspace kdebase4-workspace-ksysguardd kdegames4 kdelibs kdepasswd kdepim kdepimlibs kdf kdialog kdiamond kdm kdnssd keditbookmarks kfind kfontinst kleopatra kmail kollision konq-plugins konqueror konsole kontact kontact-touch korganizer kpartloader krdc kremotecontrol krfb kwikdisk kwin plasma-addons plasma-addons-marble plasma-mobile plasmacomponents plasmoid-yawp
+It can be installed as follows:
-Finally, to switch to using the plasma tablet UX in MeeGo, use the uxselector project, following the instructions found here: http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_Desktop/Changing_Desktops#UXSelect_Switcher_Tool_.28alpha.29 - edit the /etc/xdg/aard/uxselect.conf file to include the following section:
+zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Active/openSUSE_Factory PA
-  <nowiki>
+zypper ref && zypper install plasma-mobile declarative-plasmoids  bodega-client
- [plasma]
- name=Plasma Active
+If the Maliit onscreen keyboard is wanted, additionally install maliit-framework maliit-plugins maliit-inputcontext-qt4
- description=The Plasma Active Tablet UX
+Only i586 has been tested. To run PA4 the preferred method is to create a .xinitrc file in the home directory and add a line saying 'startactive'. Then a call to 'startx' will bring it up.
- path=/usr/bin/startkde
+There currently is an issue with plasma-desktop beeing started automatically so the file '/usr/share/autostart/plasma-desktop.desktop' needs to be (re)moved before running PlasmaActive.
- </nowiki>
-and add the text plasma text to the uxlist property in the General section.
+There is also a LiveCD available at http://susestudio.com/a/GzMWEV/activesuse
-This will allow you to run KDE, instructions for switching to Plasma Tablet from the standard Plasma Desktop which is the default will be forthcoming.
+= Get started after install =
-=== MeeGo system image===
+[http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Info Suggestions, FAQ, additional information]
-a complete ready to go image of Plasma Active with the Contour UX is provided at the [http://share.basyskom.com/contour/Deployment/ basysKom image repository]
-== Other Systems ==
-If you have installed Plasma Active on a system not yet listed here, please add detailed installation instructions in a new section.