Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Is Ubuntu Phone able to run anything else than Qt/QML apps?

I don't see any reason why  you would not be able to run other apps on Ubuntu. That would even be a disappointment if it didn't happen. The issue is how do you make gtk integrate nicely in the new qt based UI?

On Monday, July 15, 2013, Michael Spencer wrote:

 

On 07/15/2013 10:54 AM, Zisu Andrei wrote:

Is this not a bit too ambitious? Although, open soirce could benefit from an actually usable office suite (don't get me started on LibreOffice).

On Monday, July 15, 2013, Michael Spencer wrote:

On 07/15/2013 10:45 AM, Josh Leverette wrote:

I'd be interested in the answer to this as well -- though to be honest, iOS does have a good office suite, and the ones I've got on my Android phone are quite usable but nowhere near as good as iWork. The real problem is that we don't have a good office suite for phone or tablet yet.

In my opinion, an office suite (or at least a text editor) should become one of the core apps. I wonder if that is possible?

Yes, it would probably be a big undertaking, but it would boost the "one OS for every device" idea, since it would allow users to work from multiple devices. Plus, it would be developed by the community, so it wouldn't be much different from a bunch of 3rd-party developers working on their own, except they'd have leaders and maybe designers from Ubuntu/Canonical.

This brings up another question. Will non-Ubuntu Touch apps run on the desktop version of the Converged Ubuntu? Will we be able to run apps like LibreOffice on the desktop still?

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Zisu Andrei