<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>You can go grab the QML toolkit preview now and have a play. It's kinda cool. Still a long way to go but I for one and certainly looking forwards to seeing how this pans out. It seems like the first time since Metro/Modern UI started to appear that something that really looks like it could provoke some positive responses from other software providers to move away from the now somewhat aged desktop paradigm and start to move towards a better method of interacting with out devices. What will be interesting is to see how this would fit in with a mixed device family not many people have a single family of screen devices.</div><div><br></div><div>W </div><div><br></div><div><div>On 3 Jan 2013, at 12:01, Brian <<a href="mailto:bradlug@techchico.org.uk">bradlug@techchico.org.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><div><span>Yes, I am aware that they have been working on touch screen for a while. It seemed like there was a long way to go before it was perfected. Now that it has been announced, in the way it has, looks like it will be more than just vapourware. I am looking forward to trying it out on my Zenithink/Samsung tablet.</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>Brian<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Alice Kaerast
<<a href="mailto:alice@kaerast.info">alice@kaerast.info</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Brian <<a href="mailto:bradlug@techchico.org.uk">bradlug@techchico.org.uk</a>> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> BradfordLinuxUserGroup <<a href="mailto:bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk">bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 3 January 2013, 8:22<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bradford] The countdown on <a href="http://ubuntu.com">ubuntu.com</a> has ended<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv82249645"><div dir="ltr">There's no big news here, they've been working on it for a while and its still about as real as the TV they were making. The countdown should still read 336 hours since that's when they expect to release some actual software.</div>
<div dir="ltr">Plus have you seen the screenshots? <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://i.imgur.com/c43ks.jpg">http://i.imgur.com/c43ks.jpg</a> the Amazon one-click purchase is a nice-touch :-p</div>
<div dir="ltr">Regards<br>
Alice<br>
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