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It learns what I like, oh perfect, that is exactly what I need. What about a traditional desktop on my tablet that actually works? I mean if you want to bring

It learns what I like, oh perfect, that is exactly what I need. What about a traditional desktop on my tablet that actually works? I mean if you want to bring us fancy features fantastic but what about the basic first?: 1-Could it rotate the screen? I fear it does not. 2-Coult it use the accelerometer-gyroscope-GPS of the tablet. I fear it does not. 3-Could it use multitouch web browsing? It seems is not working. 4-Could it switch off the power of the computer so battery last more than an hour? 5-Could we actually use the fantastic linux software that actually exist for pc on tablets on some way? It seems Windows 8 and mac(I believe the retina display tablet is going to be more professional, more expensive and use macOSX to compete with Windows) will provide some way of doing on tablets what you can do in pcs so linux is getting late(again).

sho_hn 15y ago
FWIW, KDE today offers three workspaces built on Plasma, Plasma Desktop, Plasma Netbook and Plasma Active. These offer increasing levels of touch-friendlyness, but even Plasma Desktop, though built largely around mouse control, is quite alright on a tablet - it tries to be touch-friendly where it can without compromising mouse control, with things like finger-friendly panel controllers, widget drag handles and minimizing reliance on right-click in primary shell components. Re GPS, KDE has a wonderful mapping and routing (including follow mode) app called Marble with GPS support which also has a mobile version, Marble Touch. Re multitouch, I think there is actually some level of support, but I'm not sure. In any case, multitouch on X just recently got properly standardized with the merge of the official implemention in X upstream this month, and Qt 5 should support that when it lands next year, I believe. Run Linux apps: Of course you can run whatever apps you desire in Active.
tikhonj 15y ago
Considering Windows 8 isn't really out and the iPad is nothing like a laptop, I think Linux is actually ahead of the ball.

sho_hn 15y ago

FWIW, KDE today offers three workspaces built on Plasma, Plasma Desktop, Plasma Netbook and Plasma Active. These offer increasing levels of touch-friendlyness, but even Plasma Desktop, though built largely around mouse control, is quite alright on a tablet - it tries to be touch-friendly where it can without compromising mouse control, with things like finger-friendly panel controllers, widget drag handles and minimizing reliance on right-click in primary shell components. Re GPS, KDE has a wonderful mapping and routing (including follow mode) app called Marble with GPS support which also has a mobile version, Marble Touch. Re multitouch, I think there is actually some level of support, but I'm not sure. In any case, multitouch on X just recently got properly standardized with the merge of the official implemention in X upstream this month, and Qt 5 should support that when it lands next year, I believe. Run Linux apps: Of course you can run whatever apps you desire in Active.

tikhonj 15y ago

Considering Windows 8 isn't really out and the iPad is nothing like a laptop, I think Linux is actually ahead of the ball.