Re: Compositor/Window Manager for Multitouch

2011-07-05 Thread Chase Douglas
On 06/28/2011 07:55 AM, Kai Wohlfahrt wrote: > I hadn't actually seen uTouch before, looks interesting. However I think > the difference is that (for now) it seems to be an adaption to use some > multitouch features on a standard gnome/unity/whatever desktop. There's a distinction between uTouch a

Re: Compositor/Window Manager for Multitouch

2011-06-29 Thread Kai Wohlfahrt
Making the desktop environment use all of the possible features would probably be a matter of rewriting many individual apps (file managers, media players, etc), something I'm really not very interested in doing. A desktop and window manager (see videos above) would be much more interesting for me

Re: Compositor/Window Manager for Multitouch

2011-06-29 Thread Josh Leverette
Will everything in GNOME be forwards compatible with Wayland *without* using an X session within Wayland? I didn't think that was going to happen. Therefore we should start over with a clean base that's useful both to those with and without multitouch, and then figure out how to get all the gnome a

Re: Compositor/Window Manager for Multitouch

2011-06-29 Thread Kai Mast
On 28.06.2011 16:53, Kai Wohlfahrt wrote: I hadn't actually seen uTouch before, looks interesting. However I think the difference is that (for now) it seems to be an adaption to use some multitouch features on a standard gnome/unity/whatever desktop. What I'm thinking about is a different UI d

Re: Compositor/Window Manager for Multitouch

2011-06-28 Thread Kai Wohlfahrt
I hadn't actually seen uTouch before, looks interesting. However I think the difference is that (for now) it seems to be an adaption to use some multitouch features on a standard gnome/unity/whatever desktop. What I'm thinking about is a different UI designed around multitouch, something like this

Re: Compositor/Window Manager for Multitouch

2011-06-27 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/27/2011 11:49 PM, Kai Mast wrote: > > P.S: Is anyone else missing the Reply-To element in Mails form this > list? > Reply-To: on lists is an abomination, since it prevents people not on the list from seeing responses to mail they send. Subscriber-only lists can benefit somewhat from Reply-

Re: Compositor/Window Manager for Multitouch

2011-06-27 Thread Josh Leverette
Those are all designed for X are they not? On Jun 27, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Kai Mast wrote: > On 24.06.2011 15:16, Kai Wohlfahrt wrote: >> I have set myself a rather ambitious project to start this summer, and would >> like to ask some questions before I get started. >> The aim is to write a compos

Re: Compositor/Window Manager for Multitouch

2011-06-27 Thread Kai Mast
On 24.06.2011 15:16, Kai Wohlfahrt wrote: I have set myself a rather ambitious project to start this summer, and would like to ask some questions before I get started. The aim is to write a compositor/window manager that will work well with multitouch input (a friend of mine is taking care of th

Re: Compositor/Window Manager for Multitouch

2011-06-24 Thread Josh Leverette
After you get started, let me know of any bitesize fixes I can work on. I've never worked on a large project, so starting small for me would be best, but I am very confident in C++. The main recommendation I have is to start from the assumption that this screen will be projector size and could b

Compositor/Window Manager for Multitouch

2011-06-24 Thread Kai Wohlfahrt
I have set myself a rather ambitious project to start this summer, and would like to ask some questions before I get started. The aim is to write a compositor/window manager that will work well with multitouch input (a friend of mine is taking care of the hardware setup, the plan is optical recogni