On 16-01-11 01:26 PM, Lorn Potter wrote: > > imho, we need some way that contained apps know if the device is desktop or > phablet mode, which I assumed the QInputInfo > API was helping to detect. Right now, phablet mode becomes desktop mode when > adding a bluetooth keyboard. Where as it > probably should be keyboard + external display on small display, because > windowed mode on small screen is horrible to use.
We need contained apps to be written in such a way that they don't need to know if they are on a phone, tablet, a laptop, or a desktop. They should only need to know that they have a certain size of display surface to render to. Yes, there are exceptions for things that need certain hardware. A step counter needs an accelerometer, for example. Just the like one I have in my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro laptop. Detecting available codecs in a gstreamer pipeline might also qualify. None of these are phone/desktop checks, they're checks for available system functionality. *Thats* where solutions need to live, not in an unreliable and poorly-defined proxy like "form factor." There is just no such thing as a phone or a desktop as separate entities. I can turn my phone into a desktop at any time, and I have laptops I can turn into a tablet at any time. There is only one Ubuntu Personal. -- Stephen M. Webb <stephen.w...@canonical.com> -- 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
