poma: >> Lately half of the off topic threads ends with some sort of a mobile >> agenda. :) >> Is it really so attractive, or is it just a good job of marketing. :) David: > Perhaps a sign of the times? :-) > > And no I could not replace my desktop with a handheld. But... I can do > one heck of a lot more of my 'away from my desk' business with my > smartphone than just make phone calls. Most of the time that I see someone playing with their $500 smart phone, it's just a toy, or a music player. Business users are about the only ones who actually use it as a tool. It's all well and good developing Linux for these gadgets, but do that as a separate thing. Develop an OS for a portable gadget, FOR those portable gadgets. Don't stuff up an OS for a normal computer to be a poor OS on both. Touch screen type of interfaces, don't work on non-touch screen devices, and are a bad interface for desktop or laptops. And the usual interfaces that go along with them are appalling for multi-tasking. The standing joke that to multitask using an iPad requires using more than one iPad, isn't far from the truth. This is not a good design path to go down. It's probably time to define the desktop model (as in user interface, commonly called Windows Managers) better. If your OS has a desktop interface, it's for a computer. Handheld devices need a differently named interface. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
