KDE's Plasma Bigscreen For TV's Still In Development (plasma-bigscreen.org)

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How many of you knew about this project?

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Plasma Bigscreen is a Plasma-based shell (desktop environment) for TVs and other large displays. It is designed to be used with arrow navigation using remotes or controllers.

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[-] krake@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 1 day ago

That explains absolutely nothing…

It explains the question of "why do they make this".

What’s changed is a compatibility layer.

Much more than that. What has changed is that studios explicitly work towards compatibility with it.

Are you saying there’s going to be a compatibility layer for iOS apps or something?

Well, there are already those for Android.

Wouldn't be surprising if someone did the same for Tizen or any of the other vendor's SmartTV systems. They all Linux systems after all.

Also this is only an issue for some proprietary apps. Some of which are often just fancy frontends for services which are also accessible in a web browser.

The people working on this might not even be using those

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org -3 points 16 hours ago

It explains the question of "why do they make this".

No.

What has changed is that studios explicitly work towards compatibility with it.

There's no work required.

Well, there are already those for Android.

They don't work without a ton of futzing around with microg and whatnot, and Google is actively trying to break them.

Some of which are often just fancy frontends for services which are also accessible in a web browser.

Which doesn't have the interface that this entire concept is about, and is limited to 720p.

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