Re: Makes sense
@Long John Brass - "The app doesn't need to know jack shit about it's desktop environment."
Yes it does. Trying to shoehorn a complex app written for a large desktop monitor onto a small touch screen is never going to work. Either everything will be too small to see or else windows will get cut off and controls won't be reachable. Look at the disasters on the early netbooks with applications that weren't written for small screens.
@Long John Brass - "I believe that there is now a way for gnome and KDE apps for example to co-exist on one desktop"
You always could. You just had to have the correct libraries installed, which any decent Linux package manager handled completely automatically when you installed the app. Usually the only way that you knew you were using an app from "the other" desktop was by the fact that the theme didn't match perfectly and that the names of the KDE ones usually started with a 'K'. You could have both Gnome and KDE desktops installed, and switch from one to the other and still have all the same apps automatically show up in both sets of menus and run just fine. Some distros (e.g. Mandrake) used to install both Gnome and KDE by default, and have even more as an option.
That's got nothing to do with desktop versus mobile though. The latter relates to a different physical environment and different available modes of interaction.
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