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Re: [trinity-users] Latest on Linux on tablets with (please Lord) Trinity?

From: Rolf Schmidt <rolf.frogs@...>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 14:10:57 +0100
Hi,

> On Saturday 11 November 2017 03:25:28 dep wrote:
>> Greets, folks . . .
>>
>> I once loved my iPad, but Apple has made me hate and despise it, with
>> constant unwanted terrible updates that remove functionality and have
>> reduced battery life from <12 hours to >3 hours. (IoS 11 sucks so badly
>> that it pulls the branches off nearby trees.) I have had it with the iPad.
>> But I have need of a tablet.
>>
>> It's been awhile since I heard anything involving Linux being put on a
>> tablet; for a time I had a version of Linux running on an H-P Touchpad,
>> which has long since died. The X support was semi-decent -- I had either
>> OpenOffice.org or Libre Office running (very slowly) on it.
>>
>> That was probably six years ago. I kind of hope that some sort of Linux/X
>> development has taken place, but haven't been able to learn much. Anybody
>> know if there has been?
>>
>> And the important question: would it be possible to put TDE on it and if I
>> did, would it work?
>>
>> Thanks!
> 
> TDE is for a desktop (mouse/keyboard/monitor)
> For tablets you should use something else
> you are definitely asking advice at the wrong place.
> 
> Like other's have said, sailfish, meego are options
> I don't know if ubuntutouch is still developed by some one...
> You can also use android, open source or stock or lineage OS....
> 
> Also, i think unity, gnome3 and KDE5 are meant to be hybrid....

You are not quite right. I use an all in one computer with a touch
screen with Trinity. It's quite good, because all of the screen elements
(icons, control panel, window frames) could be enlarged enormous, so the
can be used with fingers.
As screen keyboard I use xkeyboard which integrates also very well. Most
problems make websites which work with a fixed size layout. Ok, it is
not a real workstation for day by day work.

Just my 2 ct.
Rolf


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