This is a very good start. Just a few comments:
- Not just cell phones and tablets, either. "Converged and
specialized devices of all kinds." Cameras, location and navigation
devices, media players, etc., all of which are going to be benefiting
from increasingly pervasive wireless connectivity. Note that some
aspects of some of these functions will continue to converge, e.g.
cameras which include GPS support, automatically geotag photos, and
upload them to, say, Flickr on the fly, etc...
- Also, not just individuals, unless it's already understood
somehow that many corporate organizations stand behind GNOME Mobile as
well...
- (And I hope we're doing more than providing the infrastructure
for _discussing_ this stuff. That sounds sort of like providing chairs,
flipchart paper, markers and lunch to me... "Charting out",
"understanding", "road-mapping"...?)
Stormy Peters wrote:
So I'm hearing that:
GNOME Mobile is a project to make GNOME technologies effective for
mobile devices. Using existing GNOME technologies the GNOME Mobile
project supports mobile solutions from cell phones to tablets. GNOME
Mobile provides the infrastructure for discussing the needs of mobile
technologies and making changes to GNOME technologies to support mobile
solutions. GNOME Mobile members include individuals working on GNOME
technologies to companies providing mobile solutions built on GNOME
technologies.
Obviously some wordsmithing is in order ...
Stormy
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Murray
Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>
wrote:
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 06:35 -0700, Stormy
Peters wrote:
> You immediately made the vision GNOME components optimized for
mobile.
> That
> works. But I've heard people say repeatedly that they aren't
changed
> for
> mobile.
They definitely are improved for mobile use. But the changes did not
make them less suitable for desktop use. Some changes are good
everwhere, such as reduced power use. Other changes are optional at
build or runtime, allowing mobile developers to use them the changes
when necessary.
It's the same with the Linux kernel. It runs on large and small devices,
apparently without disadvantages to either. It's still Linux and that's
good.
Roughly, we have extended the range of possible hardware platforms for
these parts of GNOME, and sometimes extended the range of possible UI
experience.
> The problem is if we say they are standard desktop components,
then
> what is GNOME Mobile? How is it any different than GNOME? Are we
> driving
> change into the standard components to make them more mobile
friendly?
> Are
> we developing additional desktop components targeted at mobile?
_______________________________________________
mobile-devel-list mailing list
mobile-devel-list gnome org
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-devel-list
|
