On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:25:02 -0500 Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Set Hallström <sakrecoer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Thank you for your input, Paul. > > > > Tablets have (a) no keyboard (b) no concept of pointer motion without a > >> drag (c) no concept of hover (d) much less screen real estate (e) > >> multitouch (in some cases, at least). that is enough of a set of changes > >> that any desktop application which took advantage of some of the scale of a > >> desktop system will likely need to be reconceived fairly deeply. > >> > >> > > > > What you write makes perfect sense, i guess that would explains why this > > smartphone/tablet thing has been arround for so long and it still is so > > difficult to run alternative non-proprietary software on them...? Just like > > it took several years for GNU/Linux distros to lower themselves to my > > acutaly quite poor level. > > > > In the case of Android, there is also the fact that Google chose to make > Java the runtime environment. It isn't impossible to build and run "native" > (i.e. non-Java) applications for Android, but the platform certainly isn't > on your side if you want to do this. This means that "simple" ports of > desktop applications (at least those not written in Java already) is not > necessarily trivial, and could actually be quite hard. I recently acquired a Sony Xperia tablet (apparently running jellybean) and so far I've yet to find *anything* I can use it for :( -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
