Reminder: One Month Until UI Freeze

[Allan Day]

Hi everyone,

It is exactly one month until UI freeze. Things you might want to
consider doing to mark this special occasion:

 * If you are responsible for a feature proposal [1], please make sure
you have updated its status recently on the wiki.

 * It would be useful to know what changes have landed - please add to
the release notes wiki page [2].

 * It would be great to have more features, so please take a moment to
figure out if there is anything you can get in before the freeze.

Thanks, and happy hacking!

Allan

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointEleven/Features/
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointEleven/ReleaseNotes
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Re: touch screen support

[Andreas Nilsson]

On 01/17/2014 04:07 PM, Richard Henwood wrote:



I would appreciate guidance on the first steps I can take to help the 
gnome touch screen support effort.


Hi Richard!
Thanks for testing this!
The very first step would be to file bugs on the two issues above 
against the gnome-shell and gtk+ products in the bug tracker.

gnome-shell: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-shell
gtk: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gtk%2B

- Andreas
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Re: touch screen support

[Carlos Garnacho]

Hey Richard,

On vie, 2014-01-17 at 18:07 +, Richard Henwood wrote:
 Hi All,
 
 I have been using gnome 3.10 with a touch screen and gnome 3.8 with a
 stylus+tablet using absolute positioning.
 
 With both interfaces, I have the following pain points:
 
 + I can't access the bar at the bottom of the screen (gnome-shell?)
 that has the eject functionality etc. I typically get this by running
 the mouse off the bottom - which is not possible with a touch screen
 or stylus/tablet with absolute positioning.

That is a known problem... fixable when gnome-shell gets to handle
desktop-level gestures.

 
 + The scroll bars are tricky to use when I have a long list (like my
 email). A single pixel movement on the scroll bar can sometimes mean
 more than one new page of the list is displayed. Button at the top or
 bottom that support small increments do not exist.

Most scrollable contents in GTK+ applications should be touch-friendly,
with the notable exception of WebKitWebView based widgets. You should be
able to scroll by doing 1-finger touch atop the contents, not only
touching on the scrollbar. What hardware is that? Stylus+tablet sounds
Wacom, but that about the touchscreen? What xorg input driver are those
devices using? what email client is that?

 I would appreciate guidance on the first steps I can take to help the
 gnome touch screen support effort.

There's definitely a few rough points, you can check the general state
of things in https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/Touchscreen , issues are
quite scattered as you see so there's a few ML and IRC channels involved
unfortunately, #gnome-hackers should have most of the involved people
around though.

Cheers,
  Carlos


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