Aaron Seigo's Blog on Another OS's Phone

[menotu]

If a mod wants to "lock" this please do; if it's left "open" please, please no OS bashing etc.......

https://plus.google.com/107555540696571114069/posts/HSL2C21DJt7

[muungwana]

To me,mr. Seigo made no sense in his views and came across as being critical of the "convergence" because he thinks canonical plans will overshadow KDEs since KDE has the same "convergence" vision.

KDE already has the underlying infrastructure in place but they seem to be struggling to come up with user visible parts.I also think some of his complain come from canonical not using KDE technologies,something that will lead to unnecessary duplication of incompatible parts and spreading out of resources that will lead to inferior products.

The KDE table(vivaldi) is still vaporware and it looks like canonical will be first in having their technologies run in dedicated hardware.

 

[µT6]

last time i mentioned this topic, it or vanished or moved to tz, so well, not much interest on it

i'm more interested on tizen or firefox

[Just17]

IMO, it is all in the reading of the blurb.

As Canonical is a large company, one expects their blurb to be exactly as they intend and not like something one of us might write in a post.
In other words, punctuation, grammar and selection of words used are expected to be well considered before release, to convey the intended information and/or impression.

Considering the above, the first sentence below is very clear, and is, IMO, just as Aaron Seigo interpreted it.

The release also marks the start of a new era for another distro, with true convergence between devices. When complete, the same another distro code will deliver a mobile, tablet, desktop or TV experiences depending on the device it is installed on, or where it is docked. another distro 13.10 (due in October) will include a complete entry-level smartphone experience.

IMO it says the release has true convergence between devices.

The second sentence says that this is not complete.

It does not imply the convergence has not really started in the release ....  which is what I understand A. Seigo to be pointing out.

If Canonical got their wording wrong, then it is up to them to correct it.

Apparently they have not done this, so one is left with it as is ........  

[muungwana]

In KDE,you have the same underlying infrastructure.

On a desktop system,you get plasma-desktop
On a netbook system,you get plasma-netbook
On a touch based system,you get plasma-active.

3 different form form factors on 3 different types of devices.He seem to be OK with this while criticizing them for having QML based UI on phones and gtk based UI on desktop and say this is contrary to "same code base".It could be that when canonical said "same code base",they did not mean the UI code but the underlying infrastructure that for example connect to their cloud storage service.

In Gnome you have the same thing,you have the same underlying system and then gnome-shell on some distros,unity in another and the UI elements mint distro is coming up.They all use gnome infrastructure underneath and technically,they all use "same code base".

[menotu]

Well, here it is.........
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heise Open - 22 February 2013, 10:42

Canonical has, as promised, delivered the "Touch Developer Preview" images and tools, an early, partially functional, release of another distro for Phones and for Tablets. The preview images, in a directory labelled "mwc_demo"  presumably because it was also created for demonstrating features of the new mobile operating system at Mobile World Congress next week, includes the basic shell of the operating system, Gallery, Phone, Camera, Browser, Media Player and Notepad. It also comes with a number of non-functional app mockups, for Music Player, Weather, Calculator and the commercial title Ski Safari and is loaded with example contacts, pictures, videos and music metadata.

Installing the developer preview is a simple process, documented on the Touch/Install page of the another distro wiki  (please see the heise blog for link to the Touch/Install page)

Initial testing at The H found a heavily un-optimised operating system which will need a lot of work in the next nine months if Canonical are to deliver on schedule. The Nexus 7 tablet variant looked very much like the phone edition scaled up, only working in portrait and lacking the multi-user logins; Canonical says the Nexus 10 version works in landscape and thus enables the "Sidestage" multitasking feature. Keyboards lack predictive text options and navigation gestures involve a mix of swiping and precision that could take a lot of practice to get used to.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/another distro-for-tablets-and-smartphones-previewed-1808221.html