Thanks for the replies, guys. A wifi tablet has many advantages imo: it's a very simple device, it can be made rapidly and it doesn't interfere with existing marketing programs. This device would be a real "community" device, 100% open and experimental. Carsten: couldn't we use an Enlightenment UI on a Tizen tablet ?
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:06:28 -0700 jezra <[email protected]> said: > > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:44:40 -0700 > > Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 19 August 2014 08:20:28 Olivier Nyssen wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > I would like to make a suggestion for the next developer device: > > > > a Samsung tablet with an Intel Atom CPU would a nice symbol of the > > > > Tizen project. > > > > Tizen Common with Samsung's SAP and OSP would be a great OS imo > > > > > > Hi Olivier > > > > > > A tablet with Tizen Common would make little sense. There isn't much > > > you can do with Tizen Common except develop more Tizen. People would > > > be a little frustrated that they'd boot their devices to the X > > > checkerboard-and-pointer screen. > > > > > > Also, we don't have a Tablet profile. We could consider it to be > > > "large mobile" but the UX might not be right. More to the point: > > > until one of the Tizen member companies is considering doing a Tizen > > > tablet, there's no point in giving tablets to developers: their > > > designs and solutions would not match the desired device type. > > > > > > > Why couldn't the tablet have the Tizen 3 Gnome UI? > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU1v56cmzKI > > unless you're willing to do a lot of work on gnome to support things like: > > rotation protocols/hints between wm and clients > indicator services (with shm + protocol) > vkbd support (with all the extensions on scim we have added etc.) > and more... > > gnome isn't viable as it'd be nothing like tizen. > > > In regards to a mobile device for developers, why not offer a > > device that is an actual usable phone that developers will use daily? > > It is more likely that a developer will "scratch the itch" for a usable > > device that is in their pocket than they will for a device that sits on > > the shelf. > > i wish we did. i have been yelling/grumbling/complaining/writing emails and > more to people for years. since before tizen 1.0 even was out. it hasn't > been > done. it should have been the first thing we did at tizen 1.0 - a reference > phone that you can buy and use. updated every year or so to stay > representative > of what hardware is at today. it has nothing to do with making money and > all to > do with seeding ecosystem. but hey - no one is doing this, or has done it > for > years, so what do you think the chances are of someone doing this now all > of a > sudden is when even the insiders can't get any movement on it? > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general > > > > > -- > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general >
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