El día Friday, February 27, 2009 a las 01:15:01PM +0100, Friedrich Clausen escribió:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Helge Hafting <[email protected]> wrote: > > Friedrich Clausen wrote: > > > >> As far as I can see, the ultimate goal of the OpenMoko project is to > >> give everyone the chance to use a phone with a completely free (as in > >> freedom) software stack. > > Right. > > > >> For that to succeed I think a Capacitive > >> screen is better since you only need your fingers and no special > >> equipment. > > Wrong argument. > > The resistive screen doesn't need a stylus or other special equipment > > either. You can use the resistive screen with a finger only - no problem! > > > > The resistive screen gives you the _option_ of a stylus, for precision > > work. The capacitive screen doesn't give you the option. > > > > So the resistive screen has all the same options as the capacitive for > > finger-only use - capacitive has no advantage when it comes to fingers. > > Thanks for your input - I was under the impression capacitive screens > conferred some advantages regarding detecting when a finger is placed > and when I finger is removed with regard to gestures. But I can't back > up this argument because I can't find any solid references. > > So, I am conceding to the resistive argument for the time being and > assuming they both perform the same way when using fingers . If so, > then I too would say resistive gives more flexibility. > > Regards, > > Fred. Ok, as I think that we have now exchanged enough good arguments to stay with resistive in GTA03 and I have not seen any strong argument to move to capacitive screen, IMHO Openmoko should consider our opinion and come up with a clear statement about and some explanation why they want us move to a screen where we will loose precision, at least, if such a decision was really taken. Thanks in advance matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <[email protected]> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
