I started a similar project for the n900 with debian and a modified dwm. I find it quite useful and productive to use dwm in a touchscreen..but certainly..not many finger friendly apps out there...
----- Original message ----- > Hi all, > > On a (slightly) related off-topic note, I'm about to purchase one of > those iPad ripoffs (zt180), and I'm curious to find out how far one can > go without Android on it. In particular, I suspect a suckless project > is in order to: > > 1. Emulate the onscreen keyboard (at a lowish X level presumably, but an > ncurses gpm-style cli would be pretty super-rad). > > 2. Emulate all those other "touch screen" options, e.g., two finger > pinches and whatnot. > > I guess first we'd need to get X running on the thing. > It'd be a shame to have to run the java driven android stuff to do all > this. > > Peter >