On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Wade Brainerd wrote: > My (unasked for) opinion is that multitouch should not be a focus of OLPC's > development efforts. The real benefit will just come from being able to > touch the screen in the first place. > > Writing a decent multitouch interface requires massive UI design and coding > efforts that we frankly cannot muster right now, and the concept is so > immature in the Linux world that we cannot rely on someone else to do it for > us. A real multitouch device would require a development effort similar to > what Apple put into the iPhone, that is hundreds of engineers over several > years with absolute control over the software stack. Given financial > realities that's just not going to happen with XO-2. > > That said, here's hoping the final solution is pressure sensitive! The > Nintendo DS gets all kinds of wonderful features out of that, and it's > already part of XInput. > > Imagine the possibilities of a screen that can become any kind of keyboard > you can imagine (computer, piano, drum, painting canvas, etc). > > Here's to staying focused,
agreed, but I don't see how you can do a keyboard and not have some multi-touch stuff (shift keys to start with) I am in the group that has serious doubts about the current XO-2 design. I suspect that when push comes to shove the idea of the second screen being the keyboard will go the way of the crank in the XO-1 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
