Hi Bruce!, On lun, 2014-02-24 at 21:35 -0800, Bruce Perens 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.
It is true that there is no specific ML around touch/tablet support, most activity happens in the wider [email protected] , or on specific clutter/gtk+ mailing lists. > > 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. This was a known bug in gnome-shell 3.8, which is fixed in gnome-shell 3.10. > > In xev, button press and release events look identical between the two > devices. xev reports legacy events that toolkits don't use that much anymore nowadays... "xinput test-xi2" will report the more modern events that gnome-shell and gtk+ applications see, XI_TouchBegin/Update/End between those, it is the interpretation of those what was causing the trouble here. > > Nice to see that Gnome 3 is mostly usable on tablets. I can probably > test multitouch when I get through this issue. That's something that's improving over the late/future release cycles :). Unfortunately, this also means that having the latest and greatest would help in testing here... Cheers, Carlos _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
