Reskinning Apps for Mobile
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(11-22-2021, 06:07 AM)beta-user Wrote: @biketool I'm sorry, but you are not saying anything new here. Everyone wants this, but very often it's not possible. Many apps have badly written UI and it's impossible to make changes to it without rewriting major parts of the application. If it's an Electron or GTK app (I don't know about other frameworks), it's usually not too difficult to make the UI mobile friendly if the UI is written properly. There are many apps like that already.

I'm sure you've seen many desktop applications with outdated or terrible UI. They are often like that, because the UI code is badly written and changing it would require a lot of work. It's not because no one thought about changing it. Not always at least.

If you want something done about this, you should talk to the developers of a specific app and tell them about specific problems you would like to be fixed.

Some do some don't, the example which lead to this post is Kodi; it is more a collection of plugins than a single app; all it would need is a few keyboard or android gestures emulated and it would work well with the default skin, or it needs a reskin which I also have planned to investigate.  This is more about starting a discussion that needs to move over to Debian and Mobian to normalize a mobile UI in the whole catalog, a journey starting with the first step.
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Reskinning Apps for Mobile - by biketool - 11-22-2021, 04:31 AM
RE: Reskinning Apps for Mobile - by beta-user - 11-22-2021, 06:07 AM
RE: Reskinning Apps for Mobile - by biketool - 11-22-2021, 08:42 AM
RE: Reskinning Apps for Mobile - by ragreenburg - 11-23-2021, 10:21 AM
RE: Reskinning Apps for Mobile - by biketool - 11-25-2021, 05:38 AM
RE: Reskinning Apps for Mobile - by beta-user - 11-23-2021, 05:33 PM
RE: Reskinning Apps for Mobile - by biketool - 12-05-2021, 02:30 PM

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