Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:40:17 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet Message-ID: <20120327194017.GA22276@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <4F7117D2.70405@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <4F6FACB5.5030900@dichotomia.fr> <201203260021.q2Q0LpOF084377@mail.r-bonomi.com> <20120326154223.GA11501@hemlock.hydra> <4F70F6AD.4000107@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <4FAC8965-EF32-4857-BA8E-936B357DE308@mac.com> <4F7117D2.70405@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:28:50AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:28:50 +1000
> From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
> Subject: Re: Vivaldi Tablet
> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>
> On 03/27/12 09:32, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> >On Mar 26, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Da Rock wrote:
> >>To explain the major hurdle in porting to a tablet, you'd need to probably find an alternative windowing solution then Xorg (low memory, especially in vivaldi)- I'm not 100% sure what iOS and Android use.
> >iOS uses a descendant of the Display PostScript WindowServer from NEXTSTEP, although the locals have switched over to Core Graphics with Quartz as the 2D compositing engine [1], along with OpenGL ES for 3D.
> Interesting... Android would be using something else obviously FOSS.
you guys have any thoughts about a tiny {7"} keyboard
plugin? i'm wondering if my VBC project might work with
this tablet. i've never seen a keyboard that small. nice
tablet, tho.
gary
PS: i keep looking for tablets with a real keyboard. not
very much. So far... .
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