I was lucky enough to attend the Bossa conference ’10 in Manaus where i was presenting Plasma-Mobile. I did a previous post about it so this one will be short, it just to show that the work is progressing well, look at it running on the N900 with decent performance :
Plasma Mobile is based on Qt, KDE technologies and QML.
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Hmm, but the interface looks really slow…
I agree. For use on a phone, it looks too slow to be usable in normal live. Animations should be helpful in understanding what’s happening and they can add some eyecandy, but they should not be in your way for actual productivity. The way it looks now, it will certainly be in the way.
Hardware is progressing rapidly and so is customer demand. Never mind it being slow right now. In the not-so-distant future this will cater for the needs of eyecandy and flexibility.
Besides, i guess there is some optimization left to do, i guess.
Alexis told me he had basically done _no optimizations_ whatsoever to anything, so this is the out-of-the-box experience. Meaning: there is plenty of room for optimizations.
Cool, however compare this demo, running on a 600MHz Cortex A8 hardware, to this 2007 412MHz ARM 11 phone…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_4g_t0Z3H8
By the way, ObjC stole my heart! No hard feelings!
This is a regular build no optimizations. So we have room to improve that.
@Dimitris : You are showing a release version. Plasma-Mobile is not yet released so you can’t compare. I’m sure alpha versions of iPhone were not so smooth that they are now.
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