[Gta04-owner] Fwd: Re: +++ GTA04 software maintenance secured by big donation +++

[Josua Mayer]

Hi Robin,

Am 26.11.2015 um 09:33 schrieb Robin Seidel:
> I very much think along the lines which Rainer Blome has posted.
> 
> For me I my urge is to own a device which is 
>   - as free as possible from backdoors from the hardware side, but also 
>   - runs software that allows me to communicate 
>     with the android / iphone owners, which 100% of my friends are and
>   - has a decend battery life.
> 
> Regarding the software side I was wondering if anyone has tried to run/port
> plasma-mobile (which is partly ubuntu-phone) to the GTA04 (plasma-mobile.org)
> Maybe this could be a way forward as plasma-mobile seems to be intersting to 
> many kde-developers and offers a shiny looking modern interface which would 
> not hurt for advertising GTA04 either.
Let me just make a few quick remarks about plasma-mobile (former
PlasmaActive). I tried to make that one work a long time ago, but to
limited success.
- Maliit onscreen keyboard always had wrong orientation
- OpenGL-ES was really hard to get working
Back then the way to go was simply porting the Mer distribution to the
GTA04. But I had more success building PA for openSUSE arm, which gave
the exact same experience.
PA was working okay without accelerated GL-ES for some parts; Other
parts such as the webbrowser however were heavily relying on GLES2 and
crashed all the time. It does not look like we will ever have
accelerated OpenGL on future kernels, so software-rendering will have to do.

Porting Plasma-Mobile should be no different from PA: take a distro of
choice, build kde and plasma-mobile; done
> 
> br
> 
> robin
> 
> 
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