Thread: An 'internet' tablet or a Linux computer?
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sjgadsby is offline sjgadsby
2008-10-16 , 19:07
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Originally Posted by lcuk View Post
...a nice smooth finger friendly front end (which is also stylus friendly) and more indepth applications within.
I don't disagree with this ideal. In fact, I'd like to subscribe to your newletter and all that jazz. However, it often appears during...
Originally Posted by SD69 View Post
...the debate of maemo specific apps vs. ported desktop apps...
...that a vocal portion of the pro-desktop-ports contingent isn't interested in Hildonization or any UI tweaking beyond the bare minimum needed to get a new desktop application mostly working. To them, the tablets are just more Linux boxen, if unusually small ones, and Nokia's finger friendly efforts just get in the way.

As building your multi-mode UI would require even more work during a port, I don't see it being universally embraced.
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