[opensuse] Can openSUSE handle Touch Screen input/navigation?
As the Subject heading states, does openSUSE have the ability to use a Touch Screen for operating the system? Anybody know, thanks? BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.11.6-3 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 29 of October 2013 14:09:08 Basil Chupin wrote:
As the Subject heading states, does openSUSE have the ability to use a Touch Screen for operating the system? Anybody know, thanks?
Yes, it does, I'm using it at the moment. In my case, it didn't require any configuration at all. It supports pointing, scrolling, right-clicking, zooming.
BC Regards, Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:15 PM, wrote:
On Tuesday 29 of October 2013 14:09:08 Basil Chupin wrote:
As the Subject heading states, does openSUSE have the ability to use a Touch Screen for operating the system? Anybody know, thanks?
Yes, it does, I'm using it at the moment. In my case, it didn't require any configuration at all. It supports pointing, scrolling, right-clicking, zooming.
Same here. Works fine (out of the box) with my Acer tablet touch screen. UI usability with touch... that's a different issue. C. -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 03:20:22 PM C wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:15 PM, wrote:
On Tuesday 29 of October 2013 14:09:08 Basil Chupin wrote:
As the Subject heading states, does openSUSE have the ability to use a Touch Screen for operating the system? Anybody know, thanks?
Yes, it does, I'm using it at the moment. In my case, it didn't require any configuration at all. It supports pointing, scrolling, right-clicking, zooming.
Same here. Works fine (out of the box) with my Acer tablet touch screen.
UI usability with touch... that's a different issue.
We are also considering adding touch screen support to our product. We have been under the assumption that the hardware works, but getting the components on the screen to play nice would be the effort. Things like controls that are too small or too close. Or getting an on-screen keyboard to appear when the user needs to enter text into a field. I am guessing these are the usability issues. Did the Meego address this at all?
C.
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On 29/10/13 15:12, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 03:20:22 PM C wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:15 PM, wrote:
On Tuesday 29 of October 2013 14:09:08 Basil Chupin wrote:
As the Subject heading states, does openSUSE have the ability to use a Touch Screen for operating the system? Anybody know, thanks? Yes, it does, I'm using it at the moment. In my case, it didn't require any configuration at all. It supports pointing, scrolling, right-clicking, zooming. Same here. Works fine (out of the box) with my Acer tablet touch screen.
UI usability with touch... that's a different issue. We are also considering adding touch screen support to our product. We have been under the assumption that the hardware works, but getting the components on the screen to play nice would be the effort. Things like controls that are too small or too close. Or getting an on-screen keyboard to appear when the user needs to enter text into a field. I am guessing these are the usability issues. Did the Meego address this at all?
@ Roger: You may be interested to read this article- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2478893/How-accurate-iPhones-... BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.11.6-3 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 03:20:22 PM C wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:15 PM, wrote:
On Tuesday 29 of October 2013 14:09:08 Basil Chupin wrote:
As the Subject heading states, does openSUSE have the ability to use a Touch Screen for operating the system? Anybody know, thanks?
Yes, it does, I'm using it at the moment. In my case, it didn't require any configuration at all. It supports pointing, scrolling, right-clicking, zooming.
Same here. Works fine (out of the box) with my Acer tablet touch screen.
UI usability with touch... that's a different issue.
We are also considering adding touch screen support to our product. We have been under the assumption that the hardware works, but getting the components on the screen to play nice would be the effort. Things like controls that are too small or too close. Or getting an on-screen keyboard to appear when the user needs to enter text into a field. I am guessing these are the usability issues. Did the Meego address this at all?
I've been playing with PlasmaActive on my tablet.. kind of. Getting it to install from an ISO is a challenge. What I have discovered recently is that the Netbook remix for KDE works amazingly well. Gnome3 is a hit/miss. Has the same usability issues that KDE has. Neither DE is designed for touch. There are some elements that work well in each and other elements that fail. Comparing... Windows 8... it's about the same to be honest. The Metro stuff in Win 8 works very well on a touch screen tablet/laptop. Once you switch over to traditional desktop, you have the exact same issues as with KDE and Gnome (and since Win 8 is a schizophrenic mess, sometimes you use Metro, sometimes you use traditional desktop... with no warngin of the switch from one to the other). The issues on all 3 are easy to guess... controls too small... features that require click and drag which is hard to do on a touch screen (not impossible though)... traditional menus are not designed for touch etc etc. The default onscreen keyboard is awful in KDE. There, it's a widget, and while I've managed to get it working in a satisfactory way, getting there was not an easy process. I haven't tried the same in Gnome.. it's on my list of things to do :-) C -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 29/10/13 14:20, C wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:15 PM, wrote:
On Tuesday 29 of October 2013 14:09:08 Basil Chupin wrote:
As the Subject heading states, does openSUSE have the ability to use a Touch Screen for operating the system? Anybody know, thanks? Yes, it does, I'm using it at the moment. In my case, it didn't require any configuration at all. It supports pointing, scrolling, right-clicking, zooming. Same here. Works fine (out of the box) with my Acer tablet touch screen.
UI usability with touch... that's a different issue.
Thanks. But still a hassle, eh? :-( (I remember many moons ago [and then some :-) ] when Dragon Speak first hit the scene and everybody was OOOWing and AAAHing but in the end almost everything now accepts voice commands - even my el cheapo satnav unit I bought for the car. But Touch Screen for Linux.....? Ooops.....hassles..... Well, not quite actually, openSUSE perhaps from what you state but it actually works on the Android tablet I bought my wife several days ago. Win some, lose some I guess....) BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.11.6-3 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 29/10/13 14:15, auxsvr@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 29 of October 2013 14:09:08 Basil Chupin wrote:
As the Subject heading states, does openSUSE have the ability to use a Touch Screen for operating the system? Anybody know, thanks? Yes, it does, I'm using it at the moment. In my case, it didn't require any configuration at all. It supports pointing, scrolling, right-clicking, zooming.
Many thanks. The Touch screen is now less of an unknown to me when it comes to openSUSE :-) . BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.11.6-3 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
El 29/10/13 11:09, Basil Chupin escribió:
As the Subject heading states, does openSUSE have the ability to use a Touch Screen for operating the system? Anybody know, thanks?
The hardware should work and if it does not, please file a bug report against the Base System. Now, the UI is another completely different beast.. if something does not work in this case, fill a bug report against the relevant DE. -- "Any real systematist (or scientist in general) has to be ready to heave all that he or she has believed in, consider it crap, and move on, in the face of new evidence. That is how we differ from clerics." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Hi all, Those who write that touch works, do you refer to KDE with the classic UI? As far as I know, GNOME Shell supports touch (and is designed for touch), and KDE plasma active (suitable for tablets, smartphones - doesn't work with mouse). Ioannis Vranos http://www.cppsoftware.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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