Darmstadt, Germany, 14th December 2011: basysKom announces Plasma Active Two, the second release of the unique mobile platform that comes now with improved performance, enhanced touch usability and smart recommendation technology. basysKom provides professional services for the platform.

basysKom sees Plasma Active Two ready to realize first use cases in professional environments and next generation devices and innovative use cases. The Plasma Active project enables new use cases for existent and next generation devices with its unique mobile platform that offers state-of-the-art user experience. It integrates embedded performance and low memory requirements, that makes it customizable and modular to support UX variations for different form factors. A proven platform that attracts developers with easy app development using native Qt, QML or HMTL5. The Plasma Active solution targets consumer and industry usages such as mobile, tablet, TV or IVI.

basysKom, open-slx and the KDE community are partners in creating Plasma Active. While open-slx is working on a standard product and KDE focuses on community releases, basysKom offers professional services for Plasma Active like the customization of the UI/UX for new form factors and usage scenarios, feature development and upstream services, integration and optimization for new hardware targets as well as maintenance and support.

The innovative Plasma Active project was co-founded by Eva Brucherseifer, managing director of basysKom GmbH. basysKom continues to support Plasma Active by contributing UX design, development and system integration. basysKom provides Mer© and MeeGo© images for easy installation.

Concept

Plasma Active is innovative technology for a smarter user experience to run on future devices and platforms.

Activities:

The vision of Plasma Active is to create an innovative and fresh data-centric UI which is not concerned with applications but rather offers a user oriented interface with logically combined items through activities, which reflect the workflow and usage of the device by the user. Like in real life, where users are facing different situations with different requirements, the software uses activities as workspaces. In a work environment e.g. users have different preferences than they have on the train or at the opera. So the activities can contain different resources like files, contacts, applications or widgets.

Peek&Launch:

In this area the user gets the possibility to quickly change between open apps, images and whatever application runs full screen. The touch friendly thumbnails facilitate an easy launch of the desired program.

Connect:

The Share-Like-Connect concept molds your computer to your preferences. Connect a travel webpage to your Vacation Activity or a calculator widget to Home Office. Share photos with a friend or post them to your online photo account. Like several documents that relate to a project so that a search will find them quickly.

Recommendations:

Another big feature is the innovative technology recommendations: Plasma Active learns about usage patterns to find out what is important and supports with useful recommendations. An elaborated algorithm gives every content a special score based on current activity, usage patterns and likings. This brand-new feature works for images, urls and pdfs - more types coming soon.

Active Apps:

On Plasma Active a lot of touch friendly apps are already running and in service for the user. The community is already working on a lot more applications that will give more benefit for the users and the system.

Screenshots

activity screen	activity switcher
create new activity	peek and launch area
active apps	recommendations

 

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Platforms

Plasma Active runs on proven Linux stack, including Linux Kernel, Qt/QML and KDE's Plasma Framework. It uses existing free Linux technology and brings it to a spectrum of devices. We have chosen Mer©, MeeGo© and Balsam Professional© as reference platforms to enable Plasma Active on modern emerging devices including tablets, smartphones, set top boxes or in-car infotainment. To adapt or extend the UI classical Plasma Widgets and applications can be used as well as newly created ones based on Qt Quick. This way the UI can also easily be branded or adapted to new platforms, workflows, designs and device needs.

Plasma Active is Open Source

The Plasma Active project and its development was initiated and is mainly supported and maintained by basysKom GmbH.
The Plasma Active project is open source under OSI compliant license and basysKom supports a viable community around it. More information and download details can be found at http://plasma-active.org.

basysKom offers support for Plasma Active customization of user interfaces including the creation of UXes for new form factors and user scenarios feature development and upstream integration services  integration and optimization for new hardware targets  maintenance and support We provide our solution development services cross-industry to leading enterprises as well as small and medium businesses. The basysKom expertise includes the whole software stack, from driver adaptation, middleware development, framework modifications and porting, skilled interface design and API definition, up to the design and implementation of innovative and flexible UI and applications. We setup and optimize building, system integration and release processes, offering life cycle management and support for the full development process. In the open source area basysKom is the solution provider of choice! Read more about basysKom at www.basyskom.com.