The netbook and nettop UI has been specifically designed for trackpad and keyboard input. In the case of a touch screen device then feel free to contact the moblin design team (ie people like me) we'll be happy to help suggest a good workaround.
I'd also note that tapping 'super' on the keyboard will always bring up the toolbar from anywhere. Nick -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kris Warkentin Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 1:53 PM To: Chris Gates Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Moblin Dev] Touchscreen... Again Chris Gates wrote: > Hello Folks, > About once a month someone on this forum asks about touch screens and > Moblin, so I figure it's my turn now! {grin} > Does anyone have Moblin (v2 beta) running on ANY Netbook with a > touchscreen? > I want to purchase a Netbook to use as a demo of what an embedded > Moblin system would look like (think: "IVI"), so I need to know which > Netbook to buy. > So I don't really care about the case (as I will be removing/destroying > it) so I can put the guts of the netbook into a different housing to > create this demo version, but I do need the touchscreen to function. > I don't believe that any of the Netbooks on the "official" list of > approved Netbooks have a touchscreen. > (Acer Aspire*One, Asus eeePC* 901, 1000H, Dell Mini 9, MSI Wind, Lenovo > S10, Samsung NC10, HP Mini 1010 and 1120NR) > Any suggestions? I can't tell you specifics but we have a few development laptops from various vendors that have touchscreens and the moblin UI seems to do reasonably well on them. The only real problem is with the drop down menu at the top. Since there is only one pixel width which is sensitive, it's basically impossible to make the menu come down with the default configuration. It's a very simple thing to increase the width of the sensitive zone at top (which is what we did) but then you run the risk of interfering with other things like close buttons and such. I think it's a problem that will have to be solved for touch screens. Perhaps some sort of gesture recognition? ie. a swipe towards the top of the screen or a drag from the top of the screen. Not sure which would be easier/more intuitive. cheers, Kris _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Corporation (UK) Limited Registered No. 1134945 (England) Registered Office: Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ VAT No: 860 2173 47 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
