Hi On 2012-04-20, at 13:54 , Ross Gardler wrote: > On 20 April 2012 12:36, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >> This was mentioned in the ODF Plugfest today, in Louis's presentation, >> an interesting use of OpenOffice configured to run on the iPad: >> >> http://blog.rollapp.com/2012/04/rollapp-launches-free-beta-openoffice.html >> >> Rather than recompiling for a tablet, it looks like they are taking a >> remoting approach with virtualized UI. This allows them to run apps >> like OpenOffice unmodified. > > Great interim technology. If they are not already here I hope someone > is reaching out to them and suggesting they might want to work on > embedding UI hooks for their platform. I imagine many things are > clunky when you don't have real mouse actions (no double click, chunky > fingers etc. Such hooks would be useful in many other ways too.
I am indeed. They are fairly new to open source but clearly deeply interested in it and what can be done with it. > > I guess they are sure they will get it into the app store, but I would > imagine some concerns about them providing an app store separate from > Apples. No such problems for Android though - I want it. :-) For me, there are numerous issues related to distributing open source apps in this fashion but none is insurmountable or particularly critical, just interesting. Cheers, Louis > > Ross > > > -- > Ross Gardler (@rgardler) > Programme Leader (Open Development) > OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
