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[Zoltán Balogh <zoltan.balogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/09/2013 08:52 PM, Jonathan Meek wrote:
> Well, it seems I'll be the first to say it: thanks for the warm 
> welcome and the interesting landscape ahead!
>
> I'd like to ask a few questions to get the ball rolling if at all 
> possible? (Answer what can be) First up, should we expect an HIG for 
> the phone in the coming weeks? Or the same "anything-goes" anarchy of 
> the desktop? Are there any plans to release any of the currently-made 
> apps source to aspiring developers for inspiration or should we just 
> wait for the upcoming image/ use the basic sample app? Will there be 
> any convergence on the desktop with regards to the toolkit/SDK? (This 
> I REALLY don't expect answered, but I'm dying to know.) I'm personally 
> trying to (again) work on a Library solution for Ubuntu and for a 
> reader, it's natural for a reader to pull from an edge to turn the 
> page, did you consider that the phone will limit some more natural 
> gestures in this way?
>
> Don't let me seem like I'm trying to ride you into the mud, super 
> excited to flash my Nexus in "late February" but these are some of the 
> questions burning on my mind.

Thanks for your questions :)

It takes some courage to brake the ice and post the first questions.

I try to answer some of your questions with my best knowledge.

1. About the apps.

We have the Notepad application's source code for that purpose and we 
have few example apps in the SDK Preview package too. Just follow the 
instructions from the http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/ 
and apt-get source notepad-qml

2. About the convergence

Ubuntu is all about convergence right now. If you put anything in 
context of Ubuntu and convergence to a sentence with a question mark at 
the  end :) the answer will be most probably a 'YES' :)

3. Gesture overloading

In my opinion (but interaction designers should be the best to ask in 
this topic) in every platform the applications need to adopt to the 
environment. So the shell comes first, but there will be solution 
offered for the apps.

cheers and happy hacking with the SDK :)

Zoltan