On 02/24/2012 10:43 AM, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
| One important aspect of project life cycles is the ability
| how projects keep in step with general technical development.
|
| It may be the case that five or ten years from now a lot of computers
| will be equipped with touch screens.
|
| It could be a good idea to think about how FVWM would cope
| with touch screens in the future. Decisions should be made:
| Is FVWM supposed to support touch screens sometime or not?
| If touch screen support is a good idea, how are the steps to
| achieve that goal?
My personal opinion is that we don't currently know what the right
window manager interface is for decent-sized touchscreen displays
(displays that are not going to be single application/window at a
time). Thus I feel that doing anything for touchscreens in FVWM right
now is highly premature; any work on touchscreen window managers is
likely to be highly experimental for years to come.
There was a great multi touch screen demo I saw a few years ago I can't
seem to find but here is something similar, and I would love to be
running fvwm on one of those. Though I do agree that for the standard
consumer such things are a ways off, it still dosen't hurt to start
thinking about such things now. Though I don't think it is a major
project for GSOC at this time.
Yes I would love to be running FVWM on something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfFwgPuEdSk
jaimos
