[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar future (was Re: Re: [DESIGN] Single instance activities)

[Daniel Narvaez]

On 13 April 2013 01:36, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Anish,
>
> that's interesting.
>
> First impressions from a quick look. There isn't really much documentation
> so I won't promise this is fully accurate :)
>
> Ubuntu is running in a chroot on the top of a modified android kernel.
> That's a bit of an hack and I wouldn't recommend it if we had to maintain
> the thing. Though having a company, and another community, deal with the
> mess makes it more viable.
>
> They don't have X11 but apparently they ported gtk3 to mir. So at least
> gtk activities should be fine. It's not possible to run Android
> applications along linux ones but an OLPC like dual desktop thing might be
> possible in the future.
>
>
 Bah, it looks like gtk3 support is planned for 13.09 but not there yet.

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/client-1303-mir-converged

So nothing to see for at least a few months.
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