On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 04:27:42 +0200 Olivier Nyssen <[email protected]> said:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 05:23:50 +0200 Olivier Nyssen <[email protected]> > > said: > > > > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:42 AM, jezra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Define "better". Tizen with a top-notch web browser would be equal to > > > > ChromeOS for most users; but what could be done to make Tizen superior > > > > to ChromeOS ? > > > > > > Good question. Let's have a look at some recent reviews of Chrome OS: > > > > > http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/software/operating-systems/google-chrome-os-1082513/review > > > > > > > > http://www.computerworld.com/article/2893364/is-chrome-os-right-for-you.html > > > > regardless, we'd need a "desktop ui" in tizen. whilst at least > > enlightenment is > > capable of this (and has been deconfigured to hide this, as well as efl as > > a > > toolkit) it'd take a lot of work to fix up tizen to work as a > > multi-windowed ui > > due to a LOT of assumptions people have made about a one-app-at-a-time > > like ui. > > someone has to devote the resources to this. at this time no one has. > > > > in generally i think having a tizen "desktop ui" would be immensely > > positive > > for tizen. > > > > 1. it'd force the above things to be fixed and done properly. > > 2. it'd open up the possibility to make chromebook/netbook like products > > with > > tizen > > 3. the biggest bonus - it'd make tizen a productivity-capable os. you can > > do > > office work but more importantly you could use it as a development rig - > > develop tizen apps for tizen ON tizen (or do development work on tizen > > itself... using tizen). this is truly eating your own dog food. this is not > > something we have done to date (imho that is a real shame). > > > Agreed but Chrome OS's main selling point is simplicity, something which is > almost impossible to grasp for geeks ;) you would still need the "desktop ui" as i said. geeks need/want that for productivity reasons. until someone wants to make "products for the average joe" - we need to serve ourselves. in the process we happen to work on nuts and bolts for a "pc" profile if it ever happens. > A "tizenbook" should be able to run web apps and native apps in a > transparent way. > > Since Chrome OS is Google-centric, a localised Tizen alternative could be a > very interesting proposition for all Google competitors like: > Alibaba/UC, Tencent, Baidu (India, China), Yandex (Russia), Facebook, > Amazon, Yahoo, rollApp, Sandstorm, etc (global) > The same strategic partners as for a Tizen phone or TV btw take this discussion to those companies then. :) i doubt they (or the right people in them for this) are listening on this mailing list. :) here we have people working mostly on tizen as a platform, and at least what i see is a need to strengthen the core platform to make it easier to develop on and for. make it more relevant to geeks who are the people who will work on the platform itself to "scratch an itch" and/or make apps for its ecosystem which is what we need to build. discussing full blown "products for the average joe" i think is far beyond what this forum can and should do. -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general
