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[Zisu Andrei <matzipan@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't see any reason why  you would not be able to run other apps on
Ubuntu. That would even be a disappointment if it didn't happen. The issue
is how do you make gtk integrate nicely in the new qt based UI?

On Monday, July 15, 2013, Michael Spencer wrote:

>
> On 07/15/2013 10:54 AM, Zisu Andrei wrote:
>
> Is this not a bit too ambitious? Although, open soirce could benefit from
> an actually usable office suite (don't get me started on LibreOffice).
>
> On Monday, July 15, 2013, Michael Spencer wrote:
>
>>  On 07/15/2013 10:45 AM, Josh Leverette wrote:
>>
>> I'd be interested in the answer to this as well -- though to be honest,
>> iOS does have a good office suite, and the ones I've got on my Android
>> phone are quite usable but nowhere near as good as iWork. The real problem
>> is that *we* don't have a good office suite for phone or tablet yet.
>>
>> In my opinion, an office suite (or at least a text editor) should become
>> one of the core apps. I wonder if that is possible?
>>
>
> Yes, it would probably be a big undertaking, but it would boost the "one
> OS for every device" idea, since it would allow users to work from multiple
> devices. Plus, it would be developed by the community, so it wouldn't be
> much different from a bunch of 3rd-party developers working on their own,
> except they'd have leaders and maybe designers from Ubuntu/Canonical.
>
> This brings up another question. Will non-Ubuntu Touch apps run on the
> desktop version of the Converged Ubuntu? Will we be able to run apps like
> LibreOffice on the desktop still?
>
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>
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Zisu Andrei