Re: : Ubuntu Touch
"D. Hugh Redelmeier" <[email protected]>
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| From: Bill Thanis <[email protected]> | Try looking at http://plasma-active.org/ Thanks. That's interesting. It doesn't seem as if it is going to run traditional X applications. But I could be wrong. I think that it depends on what's underneath it. QT is mandatory. It is built on Mer which is what got created by refugees of Meego. I think that they share stuff with Jolla and (they hope) Tizen. I have a device with an ancestor of this code: a Nokia n800 tablet. It didn't run X. | From: Bill Thanis <[email protected]> | Also here is an article reviewing five distros. Might be worth reading. | | http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/install-linux-on-your-x86-tablet-five-distros-to-choose-from-1162825/1 Yeah, I had looked at that. It's a year old -- I had hoped that the situation had improved. One system they tested was Kubuntu Active (with Plasma Active). The review wasn't too positive. A year and three releases later things might be better. They seemed to like Fedora. I don't sww much tablety stuff in my F20-on-a-tablet. They praised "tapping, swiping and other tablet gestures". I guess tapping is like mouse clicking (works for me). Swiping? All I can do is swipe to the top left corner to get the dock (is that the right name?). I don't know what other tablet gestures. Certainly not pinch-zoom. Certainly not two-finger dragging (but that does work on the touchpad). -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists