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New Kde Project Aims at Tablets, Mixed is
KDE is developing two open source projects designed to provide a consistent user interface across a variety of touchscreen interfaces and to advance data integration. KDE says the goal of its Plasma Active and Contour projects is to create a "data-centric user interface which is not concerned with applications but rather offers intelligently combined data through a context-sensitive recommendation manager." The concepts would deliver a new user experience for tablets, smartphones, and set-top boxes.
Plasma Active, which is still under development, runs on a Linux desktop stack, including the kernel, Qt, and KDE's Plasma framework. Plasma is an umbrella for many components, including Contour. A working prototype of Contour has already been demonstrated, and MeeGo will be an initial target platform for the interface. Contour is being designed to integrate what a user is doing on a device, what "resources" such as files and contacts are open, how they are relevant to running tasks, and what applications might be relevant to a running task.
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