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Indeed I have. If you want to start such a project, I would certainly be |
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interested in joining. Plasma Active is basically untested because I |
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don't have a mobile device with Gentoo and installing it on a normal |
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computer leads to display sizing issues, but I welcome any suggestions |
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or bug reports you have for that. What I would really like to see come |
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out of this is some pre-made Gentoo stage4s for different kinds of |
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devices, which I think would be a big draw for users. |
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Chris Reffett |
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On 8/13/2013 1:09 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> Benda, |
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> |
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> while I won't have the time to contribute much, I would like to tell |
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you that |
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> this is definitely a very cool and worthwhile project! I think you |
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should make |
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> a project page and sign yourself up as team lead immediately... :) |
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> |
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> Chris Reffett from KDE team has done already a lot of work on |
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packaging Plasma |
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> Active, see http://plasma-active.org/ - it's in the KDE overlay but |
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mostly |
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> untested so far. You might be interested! |
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> |
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> Best, |
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> Andreas |
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> |
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>> Dear Fellows, |
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>> |
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>> Canonical is raising money by pushing their concept of Ubuntu for |
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>> Android[1][2]. The idea is to put GNU environment (esp. Ubuntu userland) |
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>> in parallel to Android to drive the external HDMI output with X11 |
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>> protocal, so that desktop applications can run on the smartphone. |
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>> |
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>> The idea is cool, but not new. The idea is general to all android |
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>> devices, while Canonical is binding the concept with its own new device. |
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>> |
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>> The project is developed underground by Canonical, so far nothing, not |
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>> to say repository, is available except advertisements and the call for |
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>> people to donate. |
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>> |
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>> As a natual consequence of the on-going Google Summer of Code project, |
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>> Gentoo on Android[3], we can run native Gentoo on *all* the Android |
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>> devices. Compiling out an Xorg and output to HDMI has no theoretical |
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>> difficulty. Furthermore, sharing of graphic output with Android (instead |
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>> of a separate HDMI output) can be explored with wayland x11[4]. |
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>> |
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>> I feel sorry to the behavior of Canonical. We, people from the Gentoo |
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>> community, can show the general public what is the cooperative way to |
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>> develop desktop/smartphone hybrid to benefit all. |
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>> |
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>> I would like to kick out a sub-project of Gentoo targeting smartphone |
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>> and tablets. It would be nice to find out a solution based on Gentoo for |
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>> desktop/smartphone hybrid *before* Canonical's release. |
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>> |
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>> Comments welcome. |
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>> |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> Benda |
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>> |
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>> 1. http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android |
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>> 2. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge |
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>> 3. http://www.awa.tohoku.ac.jp/~benda/projects/android.html |
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>> 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29 |
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