<HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD> <BODY dir=ltr bgColor=#ffffff text=#000000> <DIV dir=ltr> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000"> <DIV>But as phones get more powerful wont it become more common to connect them to big screen and keyboard somehow (maybe via usb to a pc) and then control the phone software with mouse keyboard and big display? And conversely I want to control my desktop computer to play movies on a big screen via my phone when I’m in bed. This could be an argument for convergence.</DIV> <DIV>[george]</DIV> <DIV style='FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline'> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt tahoma"> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"> <DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dabeor@gmail.com href="mailto:dabeor@gmail.com">Peter Rauhut</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, 20 August, 2014 15:56</DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com href="mailto:xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: Feedback on desktop convergence changes</DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV> <DIV style='FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline'><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Even if we remove the concern about where Unity will go, convergence of Phone/Tablet and Desktop code means that all changes that are made for the phone/tablet must take the Desktop into account and vice-verse. Phones and tablets are essentially used in the same way and making design and technical decisions for those type of environments to match is fine. <BR><BR>However, desktop environments are used in a very different way. The decisions that are made for a desktop environment should not be limited by how it will affect a phone/tablet. My opinion is that these two different things should remain separate.<BR><BR><BR></FONT> <DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>On 8/20/14, 9:01 AM, Alistair Buxton wrote:<BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE cite=mid:CAO-Op+Fjv9-tasTMWzU6h8XN9Cx1dkmUDjpj05vxMSy=m1xN1w@mail.gmail.com type="cite"><PRE wrap="">On 19 August 2014 22:19, Michael Hall <A class=moz-txt-link-rfc2396E href="mailto:mhall119@ubuntu.com">mailto:mhall119@ubuntu.com</A> wrote: </PRE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">The appearance of Unity on the desktop should remain functionally the same (it'll get a visual update though). It will still function as a desktop, the way Unity 7 does today. </PRE></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE wrap="">I think the concern here is that the converged applications will be as bad as Unity, and not that Unity itself will get any worse. This does not affect Xubuntu however as we only use a couple of Ubuntu applications which could easily be replaced if they go south. A much bigger question is whether Xorg will continue to receive the same level of maintenance as it does now, since there is very little chance Xfce will be ported to Wayland at any time in the next two years. (Since it would require a total rewrite and either the removal of several features or a massive effort to reimplement the missing required APIs in a cross-desktop way.) -- Alistair Buxton <A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated href="mailto:a.j.buxton@gmail.com">a.j.buxton@gmail.com</A> </PRE></BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <P> <HR> -- <BR>xubuntu-devel mailing list<BR>xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com<BR>https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>