All that is also assuming that the laptop won't be shared with someone able to use a display
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Benson Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Matt Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: >> It occurred to me that for blind people, who use a screen reader such as >> Speakup or Orca, a laptop housing without the screen or the touchpad would >> be quite convenient. > I don't know anyone in that situation personally, but it's not clear > to me that the touchpad should go. Sure, using it for pointing input > is unhelpful with no screen, but I would expect it could still be > useful for gesture input, right? > > Seems there's not much benefit from removing the touchpad, as it > doesn't buy you any space savings, and it should have pretty small > impact on battery life compared to the screen. (Especially if you can > run it as input without powering the touchpad display -- I assume this > is possible, but haven't really looked.) So I wonder if even a little > usefulness for gesture input means it should stay. > > Benson > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] -- Vincent Legoll _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
