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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Touch interface development
From:       Christoph Feck <christoph () maxiom ! de>
Date:       2014-06-09 10:41:12
Message-ID: 201406091241.12740.christoph () maxiom ! de
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On Monday 09 June 2014 12:15:30 Benedict Yappy wrote:
> Everyone, I am interested in how touch interface support is being
> developed in KDE.
> 
> I just recently installed Sabayon 14.16 which (should) have recent
> KDE build. I find the touch interface rather bland.
> The main weakness:
> 1. Dragging across the screen moves the mouse cursor and/or select
> items. 2. High accuracy needed to perform double-click (double
> tapping) 3. Two finger zoom not working
> 
> I figure that the behavior is not expected on people accustomed to
> touch in Android or other touch OSs. Meanwhile, Android OS support
> additional mouse and keyboard quite natively.
> 
> I'd like to know where touch interface is being developed. I am
> aware of plasma active, but I am using regular desktop KDE in my
> touch-enabled notebook and I don't hope to fully use mobile. Some
> improvements can be made that KDE can be more touch friendly than
> Windows 8 desktop version.
> 
> Please share me what you think, and/or point me to the right place
> where touch developed.

plasma-devel list (for touch support in the workspaces), and
qt-development list (for touch support in applications).

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