Re: : Ubuntu Touch

Try looking at http://plasma-active.org/


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:26 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <[email protected]>wrote:

> I asked last night about mainstream distros that could work well on a
> tablet.  I was thinking of the tablet gestures that have instantly become
> normal and useful since the iPad (also implemented in Android and WebOS).
>
> People suggested Ubuntu Touch.  The impression was that it was just a
> minor variation of Ubuntu.
>
> I wish it were.
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/>
> <
> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/04/hands-on-with-ubuntu-touch-14-04-coming-along-but-miles-to-go/
> >
> It doesn't seem actually useful yet and at the app level it has nothing to
> do with the Desktop Environments we're used to (GNOME, KDE, ...).  It
> doesn't run X.  Eventually it is supposed to run MIR and that would
> probably allow X applications, but none seem to know about touch.
>
> I can already run X on a tablet.  My Lenovo Yoga 2 pro is an ultrabook
> that folds up to be a tablet (not that great as a tablet -- too big).
> In Fedora's GNOME, the touchscreen can do some mouse actions, but not
> pinch-zoom or related cool things.
>
> I understand that X recently got support for multi-touch at a low
> level.  I don't know if applications and toolkits have started to take
> advantage of this.
>
> This old article is interesting.
> <http://lwn.net/Articles/485484/>
>
> I have Ubuntu 14.04 with a touchscreen monitor.  It is using the
> standard Unity/GNOME desktop.  Touch just seems to act like an imprecise
> mouse.  I only tested with Firefox (my main use for this machine).
> Two-finger drag doesn't scroll; no pinch-zoom; I don't know how to
> right- or middle- click.
>
> Summary: a mainstream X-based desktop is probably not very good at
> touch.  Although this is supposed to improve, it is taking a long
> time.  Perhaps a lot of windows are being missed.  After all, Win8.1
> supports touch and encourages hardware vendors to include it.
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