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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by avodonosov on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:12PM (#14045675)
While interfaces should not be the same across devices, being able to dock you phone and continue using its applications on normal monitor of your desktop, with keyboard and mouse would be convenient.

I mean when you walk it's a phone, when you at the desk, the same device is connected to monitor, keyboard and mouse.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by flukus on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @07:54PM (#14046790)
But then each application is essentially 2 applications in one.
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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by yorwba on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @08:35PM (#14046978)
It's the same application, but with 2 different interfaces. Of course, a UI toolkit that can do "write once, interact in any way" would be helpful for the implementation.
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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by flukus on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @09:42PM (#14047272)
Which is essentially two applications as I said. The only difference is that they may share some state, but there are other ways to handle that too.
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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by avodonosov on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @10:53PM (#14047556)
What I mean is that "convergence" benefit is not same UI on different devices out of pure whim, but the ability to use the same application from phone directly or using desktop monitor mouse and keyboard.

I don't mean the interfaces should actually be different. Just that "the same interface" is not the motivation by itself.

Unified interface would be good for that. If the interfaces are actually different, the app could be adopted automatically by its UI framework, or by "window manager", etc.

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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by Shorel on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @09:39PM (#14047252)
Just like any responsive website is.
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Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and C... by flukus on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @09:47PM (#14047291)
So it's easy with what is essentially a document viewer, it's much harder when it comes to real apps, the desktop interface is dumbed down for the limitations of a phone.
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