Hi Bruce, I wish there was.
I co-maintain xournal, and we have been struggling with moving to gtk3 for a while (deprecated libraries, performance issues). I am sure that we can share some of the knowledge we have with others, and viceversa, One (or maybe two) questions I posted some time ago regarding touchscreens were unanswered in this list. --dmg On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Bruce Perens <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > Is there a mailing list for tablet issues or tablet developers? I didn't see > one. Indeed the mailing lists that aren't for developers seem to be for > specific applications rather than the system itself. So, please forgive me if > this is misplaced. > > I've set up Gnome 3 from Debian unstable on a Panasonic Toughpad FZ-G1. This > has two sensor surfaces on the screen: a stylus that is or emulates a Wacom, > and an eGalaxy Touch which is a multitouch finger touchscreen. Both are using > evdev, the eGalaxy also has mtdev. Kernel is 3.14 . > > If anyone has tested this device with Gnome or indeed Linux, there isn't any > web evidence. It works, with a few little issues that I am now running down. > > The Wacom works correctly. The eGalaxy Touch mostly works, but something is > different about the button events. On the screen keyboard, the buttons > highlight when I touch them but they don't act as if they've been pressed. > This also happens on all of the shell panel buttons. But finger-touch on a > dock icon correctly launches the program. > > In xev, button press and release events look identical between the two > devices. > > Nice to see that Gnome 3 is mostly usable on tablets. I can probably test > multitouch when I get through this issue. > > Thanks > > Bruce > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list > -- --dmg --- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
