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One of the things I find curious here is that there's no mobile story to speak of. Drag the window narrow, and all that happens is that the taskbar icons look s

One of the things I find curious here is that there's no mobile story to speak of. Drag the window narrow, and all that happens is that the taskbar icons look squished. Is there a mobile mode coming? This would be dope af if I could get a mobile-esque UI on mobile-like devices, or opt into one on tablet-like devices. In all honesty, this is perfect for people like me (who are rarely away from a keyboard) but less than ideal for people who live a more 21st century computing lifestyle. If this thing had a mobile mode it would be revolutionary. As it stands, it's still definitely revolution-friendly :)

ametrau 3y ago
What is a “mobile story”? Can you deliver some messaging in a comment story?
- 1attice 3y ago
  Charming. What I mean is: - there are strong, empirically tested usability reasons why a desktop-style UI is the pits on a mobile device - generally, the move to mobile devices inclines to a different UI paradigm -- something finger-friendly and un-windowed (think iOS, Android, etc.) - if there was a way that Puter could look kind of like a phone with some of the de-facto standard UI motifs and paradigms when it's on a phone, you could do cool shit like replace the Android shell with Puter, and have a pure web UI for your phone that runs web apps - next step would be to add e.g. the ability to run Puter apps when offline, when reception is going in and out, etc. Sort of like Google Apps used to be (in Chrome) - now you've got a cross-platform one-UI-to-rule-them-all breakout industry moment. As it stands, Puter is already really cool, but if it turned into something that behaved a bit less like MacOS and a bit more like iOS at narrow resolutions, you'd have something that would make a lot of people very upset (and this is a good thing, they deserve to be upset)
NikolaNovak 3y ago
Did you try it on mobile? Seems to work fine on my iPhone.
- 1attice 3y ago
  Yes, it works, but it looks the same. Remember Windows CE? We've been down this road -- a windowing desktop on a phone is... hard to use, actually.
anon373839 3y ago
I was a little surprised to see that it doesn't have the few extra tweaks necessary to work as a PWA in fullscreen mode: a manifest, some tags in the <head>, and CSS to lock down the body to prevent unwanted pinch zooming, scrolling and other gestures (which would also benefit the in-browser use case as well). But still, really incredible work.
kerneldeimos 3y ago
A proper mobile UI is something we're looking towards adding. It's been coming up in conversation more frequently lately and we'll probably announce on Discord when we start developing that.
- 1attice 3y ago
  great! Be careful. If they're paying attention (and you just buried the needle on HN, so assume they are,) you're about to make some very powerful people very nervous. There will be offers, I predict. Not all of them wholesome.

ametrau 3y ago

What is a “mobile story”? Can you deliver some messaging in a comment story?

1attice 3y ago
Charming. What I mean is: - there are strong, empirically tested usability reasons why a desktop-style UI is the pits on a mobile device - generally, the move to mobile devices inclines to a different UI paradigm -- something finger-friendly and un-windowed (think iOS, Android, etc.) - if there was a way that Puter could look kind of like a phone with some of the de-facto standard UI motifs and paradigms when it's on a phone, you could do cool shit like replace the Android shell with Puter, and have a pure web UI for your phone that runs web apps - next step would be to add e.g. the ability to run Puter apps when offline, when reception is going in and out, etc. Sort of like Google Apps used to be (in Chrome) - now you've got a cross-platform one-UI-to-rule-them-all breakout industry moment. As it stands, Puter is already really cool, but if it turned into something that behaved a bit less like MacOS and a bit more like iOS at narrow resolutions, you'd have something that would make a lot of people very upset (and this is a good thing, they deserve to be upset)

NikolaNovak 3y ago

Did you try it on mobile? Seems to work fine on my iPhone.

1attice 3y ago
Yes, it works, but it looks the same. Remember Windows CE? We've been down this road -- a windowing desktop on a phone is... hard to use, actually.

anon373839 3y ago

I was a little surprised to see that it doesn't have the few extra tweaks necessary to work as a PWA in fullscreen mode: a manifest, some tags in the <head>, and CSS to lock down the body to prevent unwanted pinch zooming, scrolling and other gestures (which would also benefit the in-browser use case as well). But still, really incredible work.

kerneldeimos 3y ago

A proper mobile UI is something we're looking towards adding. It's been coming up in conversation more frequently lately and we'll probably announce on Discord when we start developing that.

1attice 3y ago
great! Be careful. If they're paying attention (and you just buried the needle on HN, so assume they are,) you're about to make some very powerful people very nervous. There will be offers, I predict. Not all of them wholesome.