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["Mitchell Reese" <mitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, a lot of work has been done to make unity touch friendly, but more needs to be done. Once a keyboard works with the dash, it will be well on it's way.

It's worth keeping in mind that Cannonical's plans are for Unity to work across all devices, so discussions about using gnome shell instead are going to be counterproductive. 

Re mail clients, has anyone else had a chance to look at the current offering from android with ICS? Really well put together in terms of design for a tablet. I use it on a 7 inch hacked kindle fire. It's awesome.

Apart from speed issues with lower end hardware, I wonder if thunderbird could be a good way to go. Rather than rewriting the entire program, we could probably use plugins to customize it. Of course, with mozillas rapid update cycle these could potentially break, but with Cannonical's support, it just might be possible. 

Mitchell

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Markus Burrer <mb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Am 12.02.2012 16:23, schrieb Chris:
>>
>> Why would the Gnome Mail not be usable on a small (smartphone) screen? 
>> I haven't looked at it with much detail, but if they program it 
>> properly (currently they're only designs) it shouldn't be a problem 
>> from what I've seen.
>>
>Right, it depends on the GUI design. The current mockups wouldn't work 
>on a Smartphone.
>>
>> Besides, I think the current GNOME Shell is better for tablets than Unity.
>>
>Until now there is no work done to make Unity touch friendly. I have a 
>10" tablet running Precise. Here is a first impression report (in german)
>
>http://blog.elektronik-projekt.de/?p=1053
>>
>> With metta, Chris
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2012 4:12 PM, "Markus Burrer" <mb@xxxxxxxxxx 
>> <mailto:mb@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     I guess, it really would be better to create a new mail client
>>     special for Ubuntu. Gnome Mail looks nice, but if Unity should
>>     come also to small tablets like the Streak or a Smartphone Gnome
>>     Mail wouldn't work.
>>
>>     The Client needs an interface that fits both tablet and smartphone
>>
>>     Just my two cent
>>
>>     Markus
>>
>>
>>     Am 11.02.2012 11:22, schrieb Nicholas Shatokhin:
>>
>>         I think the better choice it's a creating a new email client
>>         special for Ubuntu.
>>
>>         Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:14:50 +0200 було написано Markus Burrer
>>         <mb@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mb@xxxxxxxxxx>>:
>>
>>             Hi, I wonder which email client shoud be used on a tablet
>>             (or even on a phone). Thunderbird is not really a good
>>             choice. I tried it yesterday, but it's awful. Or is it
>>             possible to make the surface touch friendly?
>>
>>             Regards
>>             Markus
>>
>>
>>
>>
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