Hi Henri, the pen VS touchscreen is definitely an important issue. Thanks for bringing it up!
At the moment I think this is probably more relevant for tablets. If you agree, you could repost it to: ubuntu-tab...@lists.launchpad.net Cheers, On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Henri Sundelin <henri.sunde...@iki.fi>wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I just joined on this list - seems the right place to be as I started my > tablet usability hacking (or should this be posted somewhere else?).. I got > myself a new Samsung Series 7 Slate, and I've been evaluating latest > Precise on it. Works somewhat, lots of more work required though. We'll > see.. > > So, this device gave me some ideas on how different tablet style input > devices like touchscreens, pens etc, should be handled - currently > everything is always "on", which means you cannot use the pen if you want > to lay your hand on the multitouch screen like you do when drawing on paper. > > I think we could be more intelligent, and at least let the user easily > choose. > > I made a quick'n'dirty test on this, so there would be a indicator icon on > the toolbar, and some backend logic. It seems very usable, now you can > actually draw with the pen. You can check it out @ my blog: > http://henris42.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/touchscreen-pen/ > > What do you think - should this kind of functionality be part of Unity? > > Cheers, > //HS > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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