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Yes, it will. This is actually part of their video about it. Their idea is to have one OS that can smoothly scale up and down to different form factors. They sh
by noahl 14y ago
Yes, it will. This is actually part of their video about it. Their idea is to have one OS that can smoothly scale up and down to different form factors. They show people docking their phone into a tablet shell, a laptop, and a desktop, and having the UI expand to fill each space.
- taeric 14y agoDo you (or anyone) know of a resource where I could try some of these ideas on just a plain convertible laptop?
- noahl 14y agoI don't, unfortunately. I suppose your best bet would be to install the Ubuntu Touch Preview on the laptop, but I don't know how well it would work. As far as I know, it's only been ported to phones so far, although in theory it should work anywhere CyanogenMod does. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices for a list of supported devices.
- taeric 14y agoCool, thanks! From the looks of it, I'm fairly alone in wanting to even try this.
- noahl 14y agoI would be interested. However, I would bet that there are plenty of people at Canonical who are even more interested (or do this already, even). Thinking about it now, since their plan is to have the same software run on the laptop and phone, you can do it just by installing Ubuntu (or really, Ubuntu in 1-2 future versions). The only thing you won't get to see is what it looks like on small screen sizes - for that you'll need some sort of emulator. I don't know much about virtualization - is there a host program that can dynamically change screen sizes, or pretend that you just plugged into a dock? If so, that should do it.