Hello, I've got a proposal about different user input styles e.g. touch input devices and pointer/mouse input devices.
I think it's obvious that they differs considerably. As I can assume, Qt and KDE move to be more touch-friendly. Due to MeeGo or something else. And that's good. But sometimes it hurts mouse usability so much. In some cases these two concepts are simply opposite. I think the current way to find some common behavior fails as it ignores strengths of each concepts. I think some kind of global setting should be added to KDE to allow applications to know what input style to use. And application is free to implement both or only one by itself. This can keep all the strengths of one (current) concept without sacrificing another. And user can always change the desired behavior. Just a couple of cases for now: 1. The feature that was introduced in Qt 4.7 - you can drag the window clicking on unused area. Quite cool on touch devices. But the sense unclear for mouse. I can always hit Alt and do the same if I want. I'll do it on purpose this way. And now hundreds of errors every day when you just clicked wrong or didn't pointed very well and the window went the opposite display corner just by one click and minimal movement. Personally me it disturbs very much. 2. Microblogging plasmoid. The list of messages uses kinetic scrolling. Very good for touch devices. But I can't select any text of message and copy it. I hope this proposal can improve user experience and can make the whole KDE ecosystem more user-friendly. >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
