| nhaines | Well, to my not inconsiderable surprise, it looks like the goal is to actually ship a phone that gives a desktop experience later this year. | 02:59 |
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| DonkeyHotei | so the whole ubuntu-touch experience is being scrapped? | 03:07 |
| nhaines | Considering this has been the goal of the entire Ubuntu touch experience, no. | 03:21 |
| DonkeyHotei | the ubuntu-touch ui is very much a departure from a desktop | 03:23 |
| DonkeyHotei | ffs it can't even support an irc client | 03:23 |
| nhaines | The Unity 8 phone interface is always going to be a departure from a desktop interface, because that's sort of important. | 03:56 |
| DonkeyHotei | you mentioned "a phone that gives a desktop experience" though | 03:58 |
| nhaines | Yes, a phone shipping later this year will do that. | 03:58 |
| DonkeyHotei | so, without unity8? | 03:59 |
| nhaines | With Unity 8. | 03:59 |
| DonkeyHotei | "The Unity 8 phone interface is always going to be a departure from a desktop" | 04:00 |
| nhaines | It us. | 04:01 |
| nhaines | It is. | 04:01 |
| DonkeyHotei | i am completely confused now | 04:01 |
| nhaines | If you have a large monitor and a mouse and keyboard, Unity 8 provides a desktop interface. | 04:02 |
| nhaines | And if you have a tiny touchscreen with no other input, it doesn't. It gives a more appropriate phone interface. | 04:02 |
| nhaines | And with a mediumish touch screen it gives a tablet interface. | 04:03 |
| DonkeyHotei | many phones now have higher resolutions than large monitors | 04:03 |
| nhaines | And yet a desktop interface isn't appropriate and so Unity 8 doesn't provide one on a phone. | 04:03 |
| DonkeyHotei | so the desktop experience will be when you plug in a mouse? | 04:05 |
| nhaines | And a large monitor. | 04:05 |
| nhaines | And a keyboard. | 04:05 |
| nhaines | There's some kind of manual override, but that's the default. | 04:19 |
| DonkeyHotei | i haven't found it | 04:20 |
| nhaines | It doesn't exist yet, although there's a gconf setting or something. | 04:21 |
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