Samsung has announced a new app called Linux on Galaxy that works with its DeX docking station to bring a full Linux desktop experience to Galaxy Note8, Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphone users.
Comments from IDC sounded skeptical saying the concept is "interesting at best", but "the No. 1 challenge is that there is no public infrastructure for where you can dock your phone, other than in your home or office... Where you really would like to have that is at a hotel, at an airport, etc."
Samsung is touting their DeX environment as "supremely better than all the earlier attempts to have a smartphone docking into a big screen".
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday October 29 2017, @10:57PM (2 children)
Wikipedia has an internal image viewer on articles.
In the past, when you clicked on an image, you opened a new page detailing the file, other sizes, previous versions, comments, license info, etc. This is that page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Samsung_DeX_dock_with_S8,_plugged_into_monitor.jpg [wikipedia.org]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samsung_DeX_dock_with_S8,_plugged_into_monitor.jpg [wikimedia.org]
But now the default action when you click the image is that a full screen version pops up without you leaving the article page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_DeX#/media/File:Samsung_DeX_dock_with_S8,_plugged_into_monitor.jpg [wikipedia.org]
Notice that everything before the "#" is the article URL.
Now what you did was you opened up the viewer by clicking the image once, and then clicked the arrow on the right hand side of the image. It has title text of "Show next image". Suddenly, a Samsung logo. Where did that come from? It was on the bottom of the article, the part that says "This Samsung mobile phone-related article is a stub." Why they include the "stub" [wikipedia.org] template image in the list of images on the page, I don't know.
The reason for your SVG confusion is that the Samsung logo was indeed an SVG file:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Samsung_Logo.svg [wikipedia.org]
Almost nobody would make a photograph of a desk into an SVG file, and they didn't in this case.
And here's the template:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Samsung-mobile-stub [wikipedia.org]
What do you need to do to avoid this mistake next time? Either click the "X" in the top right corner to close the image viewer, or instead of clicking on an image, middle click or right click to open the image file page in a new tab.
You could also click the "More Details" button in the bottom right corner when the image viewer opens, which will take you to the file page.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 29 2017, @11:21PM (1 child)
The one at the bottom of the page is this little one with the blue oval:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Samsung_Logo.svg [wikipedia.org]
That is NOT the one that shows up as the next image. The "next image" one is just the word, over a transparent background. It has this URL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_DeX#/media/File:Samsung_wordmark.svg [wikipedia.org]
It comes from here:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Samsung_wordmark.svg [wikimedia.org]
So where in the page is that specified? I don't see it in the wikitext. I just see a normal bit of wikitext to specify an image.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday October 29 2017, @11:25PM
I found it. It was inside the other template: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Samsung_Electronics [wikipedia.org]
You only see it when you expand it.
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