Yes, the touchscreen is very important and is a complete gamechanger. The natural reaction for everyone is to try to use the screen as a touchscreen, especially children nowadays.
Painting activites like colors are more natural and it becomes easier to use point-and click games/activities that don't use the keyboard with a touchscreen. Touchscreens are just so... natural, ergonomic and, usable. Here's another big, big, big thing with regards to schoolwork: With a touchscreen, you can draw diagrams & doodles when taking notes which are essential in school + the creative process and are why laptops as they were cannot replace notebooks. It's a big shame the stylus for the XO-1 was never built and functioned. That would have solved it. Also, everyone here has to remember that despite the world going digital, penmanship is still a skill young children need to master, especially for every different culture - moreso chinese with its complex writing system. Writing is just too awkward with the touchpad. Did I mention drawing & coloring is an important skill for young children? (I want to build a coloring book app - I can easily do it in Flash/AIR) If the stylus will still not be made to run on the XO-1.75, a touchscreen is a *must*-have. It's just broken without it and will make the machine a bit less relevant. IMHO it's better to delay the release of the 1.75 and force putting in a touchscreen. With the onslaught of cheap Android tablets coming from China, IMHO the next XO would be irrelevant to the public without it as it would offer no significant change outside the hood from the 1.5. There's just so many creative things app-wise one can do with multitouch :-/ That being said, congrats on the progress! -Naz > > Back in July there were plans to have a touchscreen in the XO-1.75: > > "the XO-1.75 will have a touchscreen, as will future OLPC tablets based > on > its design" > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2010-July/025376.html > > So this has been tabled? > > - Bert - -- carlos nazareno http://twitter.com/object404 http://www.object404.com -- core team member phlashers: philippine flash actionscripters http://www.phlashers.com -- poverty is violence _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
