Re: : Ubuntu Touch

Also here is an article reviewing five distros. Might be worth reading.

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/install-linux-on-your-x86-tablet-five-distros-to-choose-from-1162825/1




On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Bill Thanis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Try looking at http://plasma-active.org/
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> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:26 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> I wish it were.
>> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/>
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>> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/04/hands-on-with-ubuntu-touch-14-04-coming-along-but-miles-to-go/
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> This old article is interesting.
>> <http://lwn.net/Articles/485484/>
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>> 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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