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Message #02516
Re: Mir Discussion with Jono
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <
joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11 July 2013 00:28, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> See Jono's clarification :)
>>
>> There is absolutely no reason to believe that not supporting Gtk+ would
>> doom Ubuntu to fail. Android and iOS launched just fine without supporting
>> Windows or OS X apps.
>>
>
> However, neither Android or Ios were designed to be Desktop operating
> systems. Ubuntu is. When you connect a big screen, keyboard and mouse to
> your phone, you're supposed to get exactly that. In order for _that_ to
> succeed, you really do need all the apps you can get. Removing all GTK
> applications from the desktop would seriously limit the chance of success.
>
>
Again, we are *not* removing GTK apps. We will simply be running them as
rootless X apps; the user will notice no difference. :-)
We are however encouraging app devs to use our SDK to build apps, which
includes features for presenting different interfaces dependent on which
device you are on.
>
>> And in fact, this is not so different from our expectations either. A
>> serious OS needs apps that are built specifically around it's platform.
>> Cross platform apps suck.
>>
>
> Then Elementary OS is planning on writing everything from office suits to
> movie editors because none of the current ones are specifically designed
> for Elementary? Good luck with that. Guess it'll take a while.
>
>
>> I would fully expect it to seem odd that someone would try to run GIMP on
>> Ubuntu 16.04 just like it would be odd for someone to want to run Krita on
>> Ubuntu now.
>>
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>
> I don't think that's particularly odd at all, since it's possible now.
> Removing the _possibility_ of running Krita on Ubuntu, however, would be a
> seriously odd thing to do.
>
> Agreed.
Jono
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Jono Bacon
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