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| AlanBell | hi all, what is the aspect ratio and screen resolution of the tablet you are targetting? | 18:39 |
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| Myrtti | too bad there hasn't really been any discussion yet | 19:07 |
| Myrtti | don't even know if everyone is just a lurker end-user or if there are any developers here | 19:08 |
| MrChrisDruif | I'm not a real developer, but before developers get active there has to be some discussion first Myrtti | 19:13 |
| MrChrisDruif | But have you got some ideas, suggestions for Ubuntu Tablet? | 19:13 |
| Myrtti | I know, which is why I'm here, trying to chip in in a small way to get the experience on my ExoPC a bit better | 19:13 |
| MrChrisDruif | Great =) | 19:13 |
| Myrtti | I was just considering should I install 12.04 on it | 19:14 |
| MrChrisDruif | (Sorry I didn't activate this channel much, I've been busy with Ubuntu TV mainly) | 19:14 |
| MrChrisDruif | Myrtti; what is currently lacking for tablets? | 19:20 |
| MrChrisDruif | In your opinion of course =) | 19:20 |
| MrChrisDruif | I hope I didn't scare you? | 19:27 |
| Myrtti | OnBoard needs more work, Gwibber is horrible to use (it is horrible to use on a desktop as well tho) some UI elements should be configurable to be a bit bigger and/or touch-friendly | 19:27 |
| Myrtti | sorry, I started cooking late dinner | 19:28 |
| Myrtti | my udon noodles have gone out of date so needed to put rice to cook | 19:28 |
| MrChrisDruif | Myrtti; late night dinner? What timezone are you? =) | 19:29 |
| Myrtti | the same timezone approximately 1/4 of all IRCers are on (all statistics are lies!): Finland | 19:30 |
| MrChrisDruif | Haha, UTC+2 I think it is? | 19:35 |
| Myrtti | yeah | 19:45 |
| MrChrisDruif | Ever tried Gnome Shell on it? | 19:46 |
| Myrtti | yeah, it was nice, some things in Unity are better tho | 19:54 |
| Myrtti | I like the messaging menu | 19:54 |
| MrChrisDruif | Yes? | 19:55 |
| MrChrisDruif | I forgot how the messaging menu is in Unity, I've run shell for pretty long time already =) | 19:55 |
| imnichol | I love the messaging menu, and webos 3 actually stole the idea(unintentionally I'm sure) | 19:56 |
| imnichol | It's an awesome way to do alerts | 19:57 |
| MrChrisDruif | Hai Ian | 19:59 |
| imnichol | Hi | 20:01 |
| MrChrisDruif | What is better to Ubuntu's messaging menu vs. gnome-shell one? | 20:44 |
| imnichol | I haven't used gnome-shell's message menu so I can't speak to that | 20:45 |
| Myrtti | there is one for gnomeshell? | 20:47 |
| MrChrisDruif | Well, I don't know how it's called, but there is a dropdown-menu for some online stuff | 20:48 |
| imnichol | Any chance you could point me at a screen shot of it? | 20:50 |
| MrChrisDruif | That's easier indeed, I'll do it | 20:50 |
| MrChrisDruif | It looks a bit like this: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QCP_2UKsFgU/TksaT91iIYI/AAAAAAAAG6M/9lAK2X_IVY0/s1600/6.jpg but mine looks differently | 20:51 |
| MrChrisDruif | I'll take a screenshot of it | 20:51 |
| imnichol | Ohhhh | 20:51 |
| imnichol | Ok | 20:51 |
| imnichol | Does it do alerts when someone IMs/emails/tweets you? | 20:53 |
| MrChrisDruif | imnichol; http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3216976/screenshot.png | 20:54 |
| MrChrisDruif | Nope, the thing in the bottom does that | 20:54 |
| imnichol | What thing in the bottom? | 20:55 |
| MrChrisDruif | Yeah, it pops up when you get a mention/tweet/what-have-you | 20:55 |
| MrChrisDruif | And when you got to activities | 20:55 |
| imnichol | OH ok | 20:56 |
| MrChrisDruif | So yeah, you don't really need that messaging menu in gnome-shell | 20:57 |
| MrChrisDruif | Did you notice the accessibility icon in the top? (That small guys in a circle) | 20:57 |
| imnichol | Yes, what functionality does that provide? | 20:58 |
| MrChrisDruif | You can turn on the On screen keyboard, among other things for accessibility | 20:58 |
| MrChrisDruif | I'll take another screenie of it | 20:58 |
| MrChrisDruif | http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3216976/accessibility.png | 21:00 |
| imnichol | That link 404ed | 21:00 |
| imnichol | Nevermind, there we go | 21:00 |
| MrChrisDruif | So if you look at it like I do, I don't think we need do much fancy work for tablets | 21:01 |
| imnichol | I agree | 21:01 |
| MrChrisDruif | I'd actually think we might need to do something for desktop, but either gs or unity are good enough for tablet & desktop | 21:02 |
| MrChrisDruif | Phones on the other hand ;-) | 21:02 |
| imnichol | I think everyone knows my feelings about eating your own dog food, but I would be totally satisfied with a gnome-shell tablet as well, even though Unity is my first choice | 21:03 |
| imnichol | I think that tablets represent sort of a middle ground between the TV and Phone projects | 21:03 |
| MrChrisDruif | How so? | 21:03 |
| imnichol | In that the Tablet project isn't going to see too many problems that are unique to it, and will likely draw solutions from the TV and Phone projects | 21:04 |
| MrChrisDruif | I see Tablet like a Desktop but without a (solid) keyboard and mouse. | 21:04 |
| imnichol | Pretty much | 21:05 |
| MrChrisDruif | The mouse can be replaced with just touching, the keyboard with an onscreen keyboard | 21:05 |
| MrChrisDruif | Made add some fancy multi-touch wizardry | 21:06 |
| MrChrisDruif | Like "pinch-to-zoom" | 21:06 |
| imnichol | Which, I believe, is being developed pretty rapidly IIRC | 21:07 |
| imnichol | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTeUbx_nnM4 that's a pretty cool video from 2009 showing multitouch capabilities | 21:09 |
| MrChrisDruif | Yeah, those kinds of actions =) | 21:13 |
| imnichol | So like I said, I don't think that the tablet project will cause quite as much grief as the tv/phone projects will | 21:13 |
| MrChrisDruif | Indeed... | 21:14 |
| MrChrisDruif | So...shall we continue this conversation over there? ;-) (There being #ubuntu-phone) | 21:14 |
| imnichol | I was just about to suggest that ;) | 21:15 |
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