Hello all, I want to inquire about the state of touchscreen development in Ubuntu. I recently built a touch-screen-only system running Karmic and I'm generally happy with it (the OS is pretty heavy weight, lots of caching to disk, etc, but that is the way of things in this Aero-Aqua-world) but the touch screen support is lacking. I'm using xorg-input-evtouch.
1- No click and drag!! This is an absolute killer. Many UI features don't work at all without click and drag. What's worse, I *know* the capability is there because when I move a window using right-click-> move, or resize using right-click->resize, click and drag works (albeit awkwardly). 2- I have to start Xorg twice in order for the touchscreen calibration to load. I don't know why this is, but I suspect that the config settings (which are currently loaded in /etc/init.d) should be loaded from somewhere within the Xsession (doesn't X handle the touchscreen?). This problem is very bad because, when the touch screen doesn't work the first time, it is impossible to exit gnome. I have to restart gdm via ssh. I have to do this every time the computer boots. If I didn't have sshd running, I would not be able to use the system at all without a physical mouse. 3- I'm using onboard for my onscreen keyboard. It takes 5 seconds to start. Surely I could do with a bit more RAM in the machine (1GB not enough?) but is there some way for me to force it to stay in memory? 3a- it would be really nice, since it's so much trouble to move the onboard window (no click and drag), if onboard would show the text that's been typed so far in some kind of display space, since often onboard itself appears in front of the cursor location. 3b- onboard doesn't have a man page. Mostly I'm sending this post as a trial to see if I should file bugs for any of these. Thanks for your input. Thanks for making ubuntu. -Brandon -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
