Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> writes: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 06:19:16PM +0100, michael.gros...@gmx.de wrote: >> Someone asked for project ideas for GSoC 2012. > > That would be me. > >> Would it make sense to let touch screen support be a project idea >> for GSoC 2012 or any other year in the future? > > No -- because I, nor anyone else really knows what "touch screen" is. And > even then I don't understand what the problem is. FVWM isn't an application > which needs changing to work on a touch screen interface; it manages those > applications instead. > > In $DAYJOB for example, I worked on changing our interface to be more > applicable to drag and drop techniques on a tablet device, but that's a > really specific thing to do. FVWM will work fine for showing menus and > FvwmButtons, etc for use on a touch screen. > > So no, I don't see how you can make a project out of this for GSoC at all.
The little reading I did on this tells me the X11 support for touch isn't ready yet. The articles I found were still trying to work out the design. I'm not sure I'll EVER be ready. The very thought of touching my screen gives me the creeps. I hate screens covered in fingerprints. -- Dan Espen
