 If we go see KDA community on Twitter a couple of days ago, we can see this tweet that rightfully sparked some confusion. We can see, check out my WeShall, a beautiful classic KDA graphical environment that will work on your desktop, tablet and phone. And what we see is, in fact, a desktop. And so people, people rightfully asked, well, is this going to be the future of Plasma? Is this going to be Plasma 6? Is this a KDA project even? And well, the answer is actually no, and let me explain why. And it's very rightful that there is some confusion on this, because KDA has this MauiKit project, which is basically a set of widgets that apps can use to build apps or even desktops. Then there are Maui apps, and those are KDA projects as well. And then there is MauiShall, which is this desktop, which is actually not a KDA project. It's a nitrox one. So MauiKit and MauiApps are KDA projects. MauiShall isn't, which is confusing to be honest. Even like the promotion group, when this tweet went out, didn't have this whole idea clear. But let's see why that happened and how does this MauiShall actually work, because I tried it and I've installed it. So let's open it up. It's this one that you're going to see in a few seconds. And it actually looks not bad at all. I want to do some remarks on the layout. First of all, I do really like the layout of it. So we've got apps on the bottom, pinned apps, and then these two buttons to this one show all apps that are nicely in each category. I do think that this is a very nice way to show the user the applications divided in categories, showing a preview of what is in that category. A bit like iOS, if you know what I mean. Then there is a button to show all open application and clear them. We can see later on how it looks with actually apps on it. And then pinned apps. We've got on the bottom left a notification, a clock with the calendar. And on the top right, well, first of all, this arrow to show and hide things, which I think is nice. And then we've got this overview for the system tray, this other overview for the system tray with the sliders. This one with the players, if you're playing media like, I don't know, a YouTube video as an example. And here, quick restart and shutdown with this red bar, which to be honest, I'm not sure what represents maybe the battery, but it isn't actually synced with my battery. Could be just a mock up for now. I think that the layout as presented is very nice, especially because I can actually, oh, it actually how to hide someone. That's very nice. I can actually drag and drop with my finger like this from the top. And of course, it doesn't work, but it used to work now. I think I just have to exit from full screen. Sorry, give me a couple of seconds to fix this. What is this? Sorry, it's actually meant for tablet or phone mode, but now it actually works. I can drag from the top and all of the settings in that part of the screen all together will slide in and same happens here, which is very nice. I can also drag from the bottom to see all available desktops. I can even add them, even though it doesn't update immediately, but it works. I can see all of the apps, search through them. And if I open one, like, I don't know what can I open new chat? Come here, please. Oh, I don't have my wee apps right with me. Now it's in tablet phone mode. So it will actually open up at full screen. And if I drag from the bottom, like this, I can see the app I'm using and this app with a blue notifier that is open. And if I click here, I see this app with a close button, clear roll show desktop settings. I think that, to be honest, this particular screen is the least convincing, but apart from that one, it all looks very nice. And I fully agree with many design decisions that were made. I personally absolutely love this top right overview of what's going on. Let me get back to full screen. This one, I think it's super nice. Okay, I managed to, okay, I need to drag actually with now it works. Nice. You got like the Wi-Fi and you press here, you can see all of the networks, the Bluetooth. If you press here, all of the Bluetooth's here settings, this actually changes night mode, but right now it's in alpha stage, so it doesn't work, but you don't expect projects to actually work 100% on alpha stage. Same for the sliders. Right now, they're just not doing anything, hopefully, because otherwise I'm screwing up my microphone, but it's a mockup. And I totally understand that sometimes when you start such a difficult work from scratch, it sounds very easy to do. I also have a couple of criticism. Well, first of all, I gotta say that this bottom bar on desktop mode always shown is a bit too much, maybe. This one lets you open up the actual desktop, like I've shown you before, but if you drag it on the left and right, it also lets you switch between virtual desktops, which is nice. It's very touch-oriented. It's a bit buggy, but it's alpha, that's what you would expect. But always showing it, well, if you're on a desktop device that doesn't have touch screen, doesn't make much sense. Also, feed slow is not preserved, so if I go to the very top right part of the screen and click, well, this one doesn't actually open. In theory, and Plasma does this, the click should get already directed inside of the applet. Same goes from the top left corner, and it does nothing. Also, it's very easy to do a very pretty layout when you're not actually implementing most of the features that I don't know, Plasma have so many features that it's very hard to do a very good looking simple layout. And this is my opinion of the shell. I do think that it's really good. You can even drag and drop apps from here to here. Very nice. How did we get into this situation where there is this shell, which is called the Maui shell, which is not part of KDE, whereas Maui kit is? What happened? Well, it's not very clear to me either, to be honest. And the idea is that Maui and Nitrox, Nitrox is an actual distribution to simplify things a bit that ships with Maui shell, Maui kit and Maui applications. Well, they are close to KDE, but they don't always want to be part of KDE in some things. So I'm very happy that Maui apps are part of KDE, but I also see why something like a shell, which would be a direct competitor of Plasma, if we want to put it that way, wouldn't be part of KDE. However, KDE actually already has another shell other than Plasma. I don't remember the name, but KDE actually has two desktops already. I think that the one, I don't remember the name, is one that refuses to use QML and just QT widgets, I think, if I remember correctly. And this for sure will not replace Plasma. Probably won't influence the development of Plasma either, simply because this is codewise rather different from Plasma. It bases itself on another kit, which is Maui kit. Plasma isn't based on Maui kit, but different components. And also the ideas, although I like them, I like this one, I think they're good, but they're very different from what Plasma is doing. So I don't know how much inspiration we can take out of it. However, and let me close this. One thing that I would like to do is implementing that nice dragging from the panel brings up the full representation of applets inside of it. So if I start dragging from bottom right or bottom left, well, if I drag from bottom left, I would expect kickoff to pop up. Whereas bottom right, I would expect like the system tree and the calendar. I think that could be a good idea. Of course, one needs to see if it's easy to implement and if so, actually do it. And that was actually all for the video. So thanks for watching. I hope I cleared up a bit the situation with this Maui shell. And honestly, let me know what do you think of it? Because, well, it really looks nice on the screenshots and stuff. And I think it has some potential. Of course, personally, I will continue using Plasma, but that makes sense since Maui shell is in the early stages of development. But it's very nice. It adapts nicely to being both a tablet and phone or desktop shell without even restarting it or using a different anything. It just works, which is super nice. And I like it. I honestly think it's a good project. So let me know your thoughts and see you tomorrow.