Mono/C# is available in Moblin. Maybe that could be an alternative to writing in C and making things a bit easier to develop an app in Moblin?
I dabbled with writing C# a couple of apps in Windows and seeing how they would work in Linux, so there is an opportunity to use a higher-level language like C# for Moblin apps, especially since the Mono packages are there in Moblin 2.1. > Interested at your ideas about enabling engineers to create apps on Moblin > platform. > > Is that something like java environment? > > > William > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > David Woolbright > Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 2:42 AM > To: Moblin > Subject: [Moblin Dev] User experience strategy > > Moblin dev team, > > I love your os. From a visual design point of view it puts jolicloud > and chromeos to shame. > > I'm new to the project so if I get my facts wrong please forgive me. > The one weakness I see with the project is level of difficulty in > developing new applications. > > Chrome os is used to access new and existing web applications. They > demoed running the web versions of ms office and running gmail and > google apps. Anything that'll run on the web will run on chrome os. > > Jolicloud takes a slightly different approach. You can add web > applications to the desktop from their app library. This uses Mozilla > prisim to wrap the site so it behaves like an app. They also support > the adobe air runtime so you can run any air app. > > The problem I see with moblin is that if a developer wants to write an > app for the os, it has to be written in c. > > Unfortunately, technical merits don't always win with capturing > mindshare with the market - look at os/2 and windows 3.1. What counts > is the number of apps available for the platform. It wasn't until > Microsoft lowered the barrier of entry to developing Windows apps from > c to visual basic that Windows took off. > > You've got a great product and a great looking product. I'd love to > see it become widely successful. What I think would help that would be > a user experience strategy that supports the ease of designing and > developing new applications. > > I've been a developer for about 15 years, have been working as a user > experience designer for the last 5 and have a foot in both worlds. > I've got some ideas for how to do this if anyone's interested. > > If I've misunderstood the situation, I apologize. Like I said earlier, > I'm new to the project so if my analysis is wrong, please ignore this. > > This is one of the most elegant operating systems I've seen and would > love to help out if possible. > > Thank you, > > David > _______________________________________________ > Moblin dev Mailing List > [email protected] > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on > http://moblin.org once logged in. > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists > _______________________________________________ > Moblin dev Mailing List > [email protected] > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on > http://moblin.org once logged in. > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists > _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
