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eCS for mobile users?
Martin Iturbide:
Hi.
I don't think that is necessary to critize Eugene for what he does, we all know what he posts and it is not necessary to go into that topic again.
But I think that the general discussion about OS/2-eCS on mobile (tablets and phones) is interesting:
1) We require a tablet/phone that is complete compatible with x86 architecture (not ARM)
2) If it has a UEFI BIOS it needs to have compatibility mode with legacy BIOS.
3) We don't have bluetooth support, which is a basic thing on how mobile devices connect to other devices.
4) The GUI is not optimized for touch screen devices. We will need to use a mouse and keyboard which breaks a little bit the concept of a tablet/phone.
- 4.1) We don't have a touch screen driver with support of "finger swipe" or "multifinger support".
uhm.... I sure there are a lot of other issues.
Martin Iturbide:
Changing the subject a little bit.
Just as a thought I had been trying to find some kind of open source "application launcher" (just something that takes the full screen desktop and put some icons and allow it to re-arrange it) that is GUI is tablet/phone friendly.
For example:
- Windows 8 has that Metro thing that it is not open source.
- Android has its Launcher, but it run over Android to run Android apps.
- Lenovo used to have a software called "SimpleTap" (discontinued) that was a launcher over Win7 to have a more touch screen friendly GUI. This application used to have support for some HTML applications. (Check screenshot) (...also Video).
Do you know any other open source "application launchers"?
It will be interesting to try to evaluate some of that to try to port them OS/2-eCS. Maybe there is a Qt4 launcher that looks good.
Regards
ivan:
Martin we already have something that will do that - warpcenter. The only difference is that it is either at the bottom or top of the screen.
I use it to launch all the common programs from Describe through various file managers to a standard set of utilities.
adam:
The toolbar that has been there since Warp 3 is often overlooked and I think is still quite useful even today. It has a lot of customization and where it may not have some of the graphical fair that some of the other ones out there have it does have some features that other ones in other oses are just now adding or still do not have. If can make a person quite productive on the desktop. I make copies of the desktop icons and place them on the toolbar and then hide them from view on the desktop on the demo cd. I don't care about no bubble help for things since I just turn on the "Text on Drawers" feature and works great. I put all the program icons directly in the Programs folder; give it the same background as the desktop; assign a shortcut to it like "ALT-P" ; hide the menu for that window and have it opened maximized. It works for me but once again it might not have some of the small graphical flair that others have to have.
Boris:
--- Quote from: adam on April 23, 2014, 12:00:44 am --- I make copies of the desktop icons and place them on the toolbar and then hide them from view on the desktop on the demo cd. I don't care about no bubble help for things since I just turn on the "Text on Drawers" feature and works great. I put all the program icons directly in the Programs folder; give it the same background as the desktop; assign a shortcut to it like "ALT-P" ; hide the menu for that window and have it opened maximized. It works for me but once again it might not have some of the small graphical flair that others have to have.
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Sorry, didn't get it.
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