Hi all, Am still bugged about not having the completed compatibility with desktop applications. If I remember correctly, Ubuntu few versions ago became touch friendly right ! ( When it started coming for HP Devices ) & the Unity brought with it launcher as optional back then i.e. you could switch between the persent launcher look and the old launcher look which was at the top left . Similarly can't we have a simple switch at the Unity Launcher which will enable to give us switch between the phone look & the desktop look ( which will even allow us to switch between the two as and when we like for example when am working on TV Out I might as well prefer the Desktop Ubuntu and work on it ) making my Ubuntu PC Ultra portable and diminishing the line between the PC & Mobile. The term smartphone for Ubuntu devices will be obsolete like PDAs.
Also while trying to find answers i stumbled across this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1872752 , could be of use if worked upon. Regards Jskandhari > Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:10:04 -0700 > From: achi...@canonical.com > To: pat...@gmail.com > CC: ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] General questions > > * Cláudio Sampaio <pat...@gmail.com>: > > I also have one general question. > > > > Isn't Ubuntu Touch going to present a "capabilities" layer, > > much like that of Android or Blackberry, that says what the > > application can/will do? "Acess the network", "store files", > > "read the SMS", "change the configuration" and so on. Like a > > dumbed-down version of AppArmor or SELinux. > > I am fairly certain we'll be using AppArmor, but whether we > present any UI to the users or not is still an open question. > > Asking for users for app permissions on Android is an utter > disaster, IMHO. Approximately no one reads them, and it's just > one more annoying dialog box to taptaptaptap "ok just give me my > app". > > Even worse, because no one reads them, it arguably leads to worse > security because now a malicious keyboard app could request > permission for front camera and internet and fine-grained > location and the user would never notice because he/she is just > tapping through what I like to call the "whatever dialog". > > As in, "whatever, give me my bouncing cows!" > > That being said, I think it would be useful to show the > permissions granted to an app *after* it has been installed, if > the user is curious and digs into the app's 'about' menu (or > similar, standard UI). > > In that scenario, the user is clearly intending to read some > details about the app and we should show the permissions granted. > > > Android currently shows this to the user, but he is not able to > > block particular capabilities of the application and if Ubuntu > > Touch is able to allow it, it would be a darned good > > differential. > > That would be a nice feature indeed. Perhaps in the magical UI I > invented above, that would be a good place to revoke individual > fine-grained permissions. > > /ac > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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