The Plasma Active Touchscreen-UI is more than an application-launcher. After booting Plasma Active you do not see the traditional application-matrix, but activities an actual project with tasks and ideas. Inside the activities you can collect and organize all of your documents, people, websites, media and widgets about a special topic on one place. This allows you to create customized, interactive and unique insights into your life.

With Plasma Active your possibilities are unlimited. You can add so many things to your activities that you would like to do with our “endless” scroll function. Also you can create as many activities as you would like and change between them through our touchfriendly activity switcher.

After booting Plasma Active you can see a typical activity with some additional widgets.

You can organize applications, bookmarks from websites, notes, pictures and many more just the way you would like.

If you would like to close an application, or if you want to know which application is running, just pull down the main-bar and pull it a little bit down.

That is the Peek-Area of Plasma Active. You can close running applications by tapping on X.

If you pull down the main-bar completely, then you can see the Application-Launcher.

There you can access all your needed programs. After installing, Plasma Active has already included touchfriendly programs.

Generally you can install all programs from the Balsam Professional repositories, but if your installed application is not visible in the launcher, you should not use it. The reason to do that is because not all programs are touch-friendly, and such programs are blacklisted and are invisible in the launcher.

Share-Like-Connect is a great feature of Plasma Active. As previously mentioned, Plasma Active uses activities. Here is an example: Work, System, Multimedia und Network.

With Share-Like-Connect you can connect each website, person, task or more to a special activity.

On the right side of the main-bar there are three icons with two people, a heart and a plug. In the following picture you see this inside a red border.

With these three symbols you can connect objects with activities. You can read more here: Section 4.1.1, “Managing activities”.

The Activityswitcher of Plasma Active is placed on the right side. Just pull the little tab from the right side to the middle of the screen. Then it looks like:

The Activityswitcher has two important components.

On the top you can see the system bar. In the left corner you have some system icons. Most icons represent important hardware activities. Here is a short overview:

You can configure Plasma Active for WLAN with the NetworkManager (radio symbol).

You need a plugged-in USB keyboard to configure Plasma Active.

One of the most important functions of a mobile device is having the ability to access websites. Plasma Active provides this too with a newly written touch-friendly internet browser. To use it you can do that:

The browser provides the already known functions like “Forward”, “Back” and “Reload”. Also, the browser retains the browsed websites in memory, so you can easily return to a site the next time you start the browser. In the settings you can enable or disable the ad blocker or plugins (read Procedure 5.1, “Starting the Systemsettings-App”).

Someone may want a bookmark manager. Plasma Active goes in this case another way: through its activities. If you want to collect some sites for a special topic, simply create an activity for it and add the site to the activity (read Procedure 4.2, “How to connect a Object with a activity?”

At the moment Plasma Active doesn't have an instant messenger.