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The only concern in Xubuntu, is to have a feature in Control Center
to configure the "Touchscreen Settings". <br>
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In Android, we don't have a mouse settings option to make usable a
"Google Earth for Android" with a mouse.. Their Office Apps don't
have enough functionalities for a desktop environment either and
neither Libreoffice will be fited for a tablet environment...<br>
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Please don't ask to make the same errors as MS Windows 8...
Touchscreen is another flavour of Ubuntu. XFCE doesn't have to be
transformed in its roots for it.<br>
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Benoit<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 20/08/2014 22:03, George DiceGeorge
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<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
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a
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<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: Feedback on desktop convergence
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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.
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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>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/20/14, 9:01 AM, Alistair
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<pre wrap="">On 19 August 2014 22:19, Michael Hall <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mhall119@ubuntu.com">mailto:mhall119@ubuntu.com</a> wrote:
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<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.
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<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.)
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