On 6/22/07, Rusty Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 15:07 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 June 2007 11:26:05 Mathias Uebelacker wrote: > > > wiki.ubuntu ist a good place but whats with a good structure? > <big snip> > > > > Just trying to understand the goals of the project. The Q1 would run > > regular > > Ubuntu just fine. (Xubuntu perhaps better) so why a special project for > > this. It's a standard PIII Celeron. with 512MB ram and a 40GB hdd... > > It's all about getting a device with a similar form factor to enable > application framework and application development. The samsung screen > is a bit big, but not too big, and you have a lot of the other elements > (like a touchscreen) that allow us to start working on this stack and > enable some creative elements before better suited hardware arrives. > > BTW, even with target hardware, you will have (relative to traditional > mobile devices) loads of resources so you absolutely can run normal > ubuntu. The problem is that a normal full desktop is horribly unusable > for this kind of form factor... not because the device will run too > slow, but that the usage model for full desktop makes all kinds of > assumptions that kill the experience on a small form factor device.
Makes perfect sense. BTW, are you planning to investigate/use hildon-widgets (hildon-1 library) too? What's the preferred method of developing applications for your platform? It's a long discussion we carried on several times here at nokia. Mobile applications need a different UI. Running desktop applications on a small screen, even if possible technically, doesn't make much sense. Some interaction methods don't make much sense on the mobile and vice versa. I think it's logically impossible to have a UI system that automagically scales up and down (I don't mean here graphical scaling but rather functionality scaling). Therefore, a better bet is to write applications in such a way, that the engine is cleanly separated from the UI (which can have many variants). Unfortunately, gtk-apps development model doesn't encourage this kind of separation, and with most applications the UI-flow code is heavily mixed up with the core application logic code. Anyways, coming back to my original question -- are you planning to adopt gtk + hildon widgets as the base development toolkit? > > I tried using a full GNOME desktop on the original Samsung Q1. At best > it was a painful experience. > > --rusty > > -- > Ubuntu-mobile mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile > -- Michael Dominic K. -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
