My target in this case are desktop screens, such as restaurant POS, but
other personal and work scenarios too.
That curtain is a great Gnome3 feature, but I believe it's an error to
force it for everybody.


El 12/08/15 a les 11:58, Hussam Al-Tayeb ha escrit:
> On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 14:09 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> On 12-Aug-2015 8:59 am, "Narcis Garcia" <informat...@actiu.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This doesn't work with touchscreens, because cannot write anything
>> until
>>> curtain is out.
>>>
>> On touch devices, the curtain is the standard way of implementing
>> lock screens for a number of reasons. Such as quick viewing of
>> notifications, to prevent accidental unlocking or several failed
>> attempts that lock the device, etc.
>> I will note that on keyboard devices, you can both turn the screen on
>> and lift the curtain at the same time by pressing the Esc key.
> 
> Esc key actually help a lot here. On large screens, using a touch scree
> n interface is actually more work and far less intuitive than operating
> a keyboard. It takes far less time to press Esc than move my hand and
> swipe the curtain off a large screen (and and even less time than
> dragging the curtain off with a mouse).
> No one wants to wave their hands around a large screen.
> 
> On a small 10" screen or lower, the extra effort needed to operate a
> touch screen is much less.
> 
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