On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 02:29, Perky <perkys...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can see from Mark's view that there needs to be an alternative to > tooltips on tablets. However, at the moment such devices are 'toys'.
Not just at the moment, IMHO. You can't turn a car into an airplane - that is different things, even if both are invented for transport. By definition a netbook or tablet will always be substantially different from a desktop or laptop PC. Therefore netbooks or tablets will IMHO never replace a real laptop or desktop. I simply can't go to holiday with my whole family with a Ferrari - even if it looks cool and may go fast (under the appropriate circumstances), it simply does not offer enough room. While you could do web-surfing and email with your netbook, doing CAD or writing long documents etc etc is simply not efficient with a small geeky device. On the other hand, when in inventory where it might be sufficient to type a few numbers (or just use a built-in barcode scanner) and read some necessary information. - Here a tablet could fit very well and better than carrying a laptop. > In comparison to traditional laptops/desktops they are not as good for > getting work done (depending on the work). Indeed - as explained above! > This will probably change as > they mature many years down the track, and you never know - getting work > done may end up being more productive on a tablet I don't think so even in mid-term future because of physical conflict: A small mobile device can never offer a big view (maybe with projecting it into the air only) and a small keyboard is simply not as easy to handle as a bigger one that fits more the human hand. BTW: I do not think that speech recognition and related technology will get stable within the next years, as I notice that neither fulltext indexing does (which is more important yet). > I can also see that to develop a tablet > version of Ubuntu will be tricky because of the small userbase - perhaps > that is why some 'experiments' are appearing in desktop versions of Ubuntu? Isn't it possible to display several things different depending on the device? - Maybe in the future the device can recognize, where we looking at and displaying the tooltip then - that would be the equivalent to hovering with the mouse. ;-) Anyway, the clear mistake that is done is for the sake of good user experience on the netbook, productivity on laptops and desktops is cut down. Maybe Mark thinks, that Ubuntu has more chances on the netbook market than on the desktop market and therefore concentrate on that. But seriously, a netbook is a nice thing, I might carry with me when going to a conference to have less luggage, but for daily work nobody would use it. And I find it a big mistake to concentrate just on that as I think that business is interested in saving plenty of licence fees. -- Martin Wildam -- please include status messages/tooltips https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/527458 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs