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[Jasneet Singh Kandhari <jskandhari@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Am still bugged about not having the completed compatibility with desktop applications. If I remember correctly, Ubuntu few versions ago became touch friendly right ! ( When it started coming for HP Devices ) & the Unity brought with it launcher as optional back then  i.e. you could switch between the persent launcher look and the old launcher look which was at the top left . Similarly can't we have a simple switch at the Unity Launcher which will enable to give us switch between the phone look & the desktop look ( which will even allow us to switch between the two as and when we like for example when am working on TV Out I might as well prefer the Desktop Ubuntu and work on it ) making my Ubuntu PC Ultra portable and diminishing the line between the PC & Mobile. The term smartphone for Ubuntu devices will be obsolete like PDAs. 

Also while trying to find answers i stumbled across this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1872752 , could be of use if worked upon.

Regards
Jskandhari


> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:10:04 -0700
> From: achiang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: patola@xxxxxxxxx
> CC: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] General questions
> 
> * Cláudio Sampaio <patola@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > I also have one general question.
> > 
> > Isn't Ubuntu Touch going to present a "capabilities" layer,
> > much like that of Android or Blackberry, that says what the
> > application can/will do? "Acess the network", "store files",
> > "read the SMS", "change the configuration" and so on. Like a
> > dumbed-down version of AppArmor or SELinux.
> 
> I am fairly certain we'll be using AppArmor, but whether we
> present any UI to the users or not is still an open question.
> 
> Asking for users for app permissions on Android is an utter
> disaster, IMHO. Approximately no one reads them, and it's just
> one more annoying dialog box to taptaptaptap "ok just give me my
> app".
> 
> Even worse, because no one reads them, it arguably leads to worse
> security because now a malicious keyboard app could request
> permission for front camera and internet and fine-grained
> location and the user would never notice because he/she is just
> tapping through what I like to call the "whatever dialog".
> 
> As in, "whatever, give me my bouncing cows!"
> 
> That being said, I think it would be useful to show the
> permissions granted to an app *after* it has been installed, if
> the user is curious and digs into the app's 'about' menu (or
> similar, standard UI).
> 
> In that scenario, the user is clearly intending to read some
> details about the app and we should show the permissions granted.
> 
> > Android currently shows this to the user, but he is not able to
> > block particular capabilities of the application and if Ubuntu
> > Touch is able to allow it, it would be a darned good
> > differential.
> 
> That would be a nice feature indeed. Perhaps in the magical UI I
> invented above, that would be a good place to revoke individual
> fine-grained permissions.
> 
> /ac
> 
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