Am Mittwoch, den 21.03.2007, 20:43 -0700 schrieb Corey Burger: > On 3/21/07, Charlotte Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Corey forwarded my previous message about a Tablet PC related project for > > Summer of Code (thanks Corey), but I thought I would try to rephrase my > > request a little more clearly: > > > > 1) Are there many people who actually use Tablet PCs and would like to see > > improvements to Ubuntu's Tablet useability? > > > > 2) What is the most important aspect that needs work? Some ideas I've had > > are: > > - A handwriting input tool (similar to Windows' TIP) > > - A tool to easily configure screen rotation and hardware buttons > > - Handwriting recognition in the background (for searchable handwriting, > > although that is probably beyond my abilities) > > - An annotation plugin to Evince/xpdf > > - Improvements to Xournal > > > > This would be a pretty ambitious project if I tried to do all of it, so I'd > > like to just focus on one subcomponent. Also, if I don't get accepted to > > Summer of Code, I'd still like to do this, so I'd really appreciate your > > input. Thank you, > > > > Charlotte > > As an observer from the previous two SoC's, I can say the biggest > problem is students biting off more than they can chew. One of the > biggest issues with tablets is that GNOME often barfs on the screen > rotation, primarily the panel layout. As such, you possible place > would be work on some new panel work, but that might be best done > upstream. Another option and somewhat more general, is to do an X > config gui, likely porting fedora's system-config-xfree86 to Ubuntu.
You could take a look at displayconfig-gtk that went into Universe lately. It is a gtk frontend to guidance. As a nice side effect both Kubuntu and Ubuntu could use the same backend. It is currently in an early development stage, but it progresses fast. Cheers, Sebastian
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