11-05-2025, 05:46 PM
(11-02-2025, 12:37 PM)walter1950 Wrote: Hello,
https://medium.com/@mathias-steiner/mobi...9dd60aee42
Ciao
Walter
quote from site:
Quote:The problems I described above are not abstract at all, but quite specific. Adapting desktop DEs such as GNOME and KDE for mobile devices is a dead end. No matter how hard developers try, desktop and mobile applications differ radically in both user interfaces and usage scenarios. Of course, the idea of creating applications that work on all types of devices is wonderful, but even Microsoft has not been able to implement it properly, despite betting on UWP and investing tens (or rather hundreds) of millions of dollars in the platform. What can the more modestly budgeted mobile Linux offer? As I see it, it’s just a launcher for desktop software, whose main purpose is to fit a desktop application window onto a smartphone screen by hook or by crook. How it will look and work is a secondary, or perhaps even tertiary issue.
i think the opposite mostly. i think if we want mobile linux to succeed, there needs to be unified programs for both desktop and mobile, user interface needs to be different. of course, mobile and tablets apps need to take user interface into account, like touchscreen, smaller screen, on-screen keyboard and so on. even if battery savings are planned, it is helpful for desktop programs as well.
it is weird that person references windows uwp, which refers to windows 8. microsoft literally created different platform for touchscreen interface and desktop interface, thus programs were not transferable. that's why windows mobile had apps poorly.
article complains mostly user interface issues, which are valid in most cases. but writer seems to want different platform for mobile linux and desktop desktop, which leads developers to develop mobile apps from the scratch.