Thread: Half-year review of Stskeeps's work as distmaster
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2010-04-29 , 12:39
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Originally Posted by karmaflux View Post
From the perspective of "I want my device to continue to run programs at all" you're entirely wrong. Half the time on my n810 I'm running a regular x11 app over ssh forwarding, and I haven't got many problems.
So, for that time you don't need a new OS! ;-)

I'd be perfectly happy running regular desktop applications on my tablet, if it came down to it. Mer was a great platform for that.
It was. So's Easy Debian. Doesn't the position Mer got to deliver that functionality for you? i.e. it's stopped at a perfect point.

From the perspective of "I want my device to continue to run programs that are perfectly hildonized and integrated" then you're only slightly wrong ...and only because it's possible to fake it a la sugarization.
Having played with LD_PRELOAD hacks to get HildonWindow used instead of GtkWindow, I'm aware of these things.

The approach taken by the page you link to isn't necessary on Maemo/Mer (it's basically run-standalone.sh). However, no-one's succeeded in auto-Hildonisation using LD_PRELOAD. Perhaps you'd like to run with it and deliver something workable?
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