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... . > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Voice By Computer (for Universal Access): http:/www.thought.org/vbc The 8.57a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org Twenty-five years of service to the Unix community.
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