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Why GNOME3 will never be a player on tabletsWhy GNOME3 will never be a player on tabletsPosted Aug 30, 2011 21:59 UTC (Tue) by ebassi (subscriber, #54855)In reply to: Why GNOME3 will never be a player on tablets by jmorris42 Parent article: The year of the Linux tablet?
No, they would have to break in at the bottom and look at the specs on those, CPU speeds at 1Ghz or lower and 256-512M ram No way GNOME is going to run well in that. GNOME 3.0 runs fine on netbooks, which are single core Atom ~1 GHz CPUs with 1GB of RAM. new smartphones and tablets are coming out on dual core CPUs. the memory usage of the Shell is between 150 and 200 megs of RAM; anything more is a bug. the real issues arrive when you start the web browser, but that has nothing to do with GNOME. so, you're essentially wrong: GNOME works fine on netbooks and tablets.
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Why GNOME3 will never be a player on tablets Posted Aug 30, 2011 23:18 UTC (Tue) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]
I'll bite.
What exactly is GNOME going to do about web browser as core functionality the GNOME OS future? Html5 based apps are only going to grow in importance, especially in the infotainment consumption use case that the tablet form factor seems to fit very well.
Amd there's still a significant point that GNOME as a project needs to address concerning the definition of a coherent API and SDK story that can be breadcrumbed to application developers. Application developers will need to reuse as much of the code silo that underpins Shell to minimize resource consumption as application developers build task specific applications for the post-desktop form factor usage cases. Android and iOS both lay down a pretty strong preferred SDK storyline for incoming application developers.
-jef
Why GNOME3 will never be a player on tablets Posted Aug 31, 2011 3:09 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697592 Only happens in gnome shell.
So, you're essentially wrong: GNOME needs help on some netbooks and tablets.
Why GNOME3 will never be a player on tablets Posted Aug 31, 2011 18:14 UTC (Wed) by tshow (subscriber, #6411) [Link]
> [...] the memory usage of the Shell is between 150 and 200 megs of RAM; anything more is a bug. the real issues arrive when you start the web browser, but that has nothing to do with GNOME.
So, Shell is eating a sizable fraction of RAM, but hey, it's other people's problem to try to make their applications fit in the remaining space? Because, you know, people run computers and tablets to experience the GNOME brand, not to actually *do* anything...
Having the shell eat 15%-20% of system RAM on a 1GiB tablet is not "doing fine" by any reasonable stretch of the imagination.
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