Plasma/Plasma Netbook Reference Platform

What It Is

The Plasma Netbook Reference Platform is a full system image that makes it easy to test and improve the Netbook workspace shell. It can be downloaded and installed on a USB memory stick for easy testing on netbooks an devices with other form factors.

Our Goals

Our goals are:

• to provide an easy, reliable way to test Plasma Netbook
• to provide system integrators a reference to evaluate Plasma Netbook with as well as to compare their own Plasma Netbook offerings with
• to support the growing Plasma Netbook user base in being able to easily get involved with testing, improving and demonstrating interesting, useful and fun modifications both to the upstream Plasma project as well as to other Plasma Netbook users.

We strive to accomplish all of these things in an open manner that embodies the precepts of the Code of Conduct.

How To Get It

https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=KDE:Netbook

instructions on how to install it on a usb stick

How To Get Involved

• how to join the build service project
• how to fork it and do your own customizations
• gitorious project for config?
• sharing your modifications
• testing and bug reporting?

Known Issues and Current Efforts

• The fullscreen dialog from the opendesktop.org plasmoid needs to be removed
• First launch issue with the activities bar: it is so wide that the part of the panel with the window title/close plasmoid is off the right edge of the screen (Marco)
• Updated network manager plasmoid package (Will)
• WiFi not working out of the box