On 12/17/2014 05:50 PM, Forest Bond wrote: > I'm wondering what sort of issues you are running into?
Unfortunately, I haven't been keeping notes. I assumed some WM would just work, but apparently Linux is lagging in this area, or my config is just bad, or my Arch-fu is lacking. I'm going to grab that computer... I actually had a bunch of things running on different virtual terminals. Not to pick on KDE, but it looks like plasma-next happens to be up front, so I'll just play around a little: 1. I am at a lock screen. No virtual keyboard pops up, so I am stuck. 2. Rotating to portrait mode doesn't work. 3. I am snapping the keyboard to the screen so I can log in. 4. Touching to move a firefox I accidentally chased it down behind the menu bar at the bottom. There are also two terminal windows open. Trying to touch to move them (with my finger or a passive stylus) is erratic, most often it tries to resize them. 5. It seems to be really good at highlighting text anytime I touch inside a window (you might expect scrolling). 6. I can sometimes scroll touching the scrollbars, but I'm left handed, so I can't see anything behind my arm. And it is erratic. 7. Touching buttons works well. I guess this is just mouse emulation. 8. Typing "touch" into their just-type-to-search start menu gives me a "Run touch" option, but it doesn't seem to do anything. That might not even be a kde application, not sure what they are searching? Scrolling apps manually in this menu is very frustrating, even with the (single-touch) mousepad. The scrolling is weird, there seems to be some magic to make the scrollbar appear, but then it fades out as you try to grab it. It is easiest to just use the up and down arrow keys. Also if you accidentally move the mouse pointer off the start menu (trying to hit the scrollbar), the menu closes. 9. BONUS: I figured out that I can scroll by using two fingers in "System Settings", but that doesn't work in firefox, where it highlights, or drags a highlighted region. 10. I can't even seem to figure out how to switch my keyboard to dvorak. If I could figure the keymap out, maybe there would be some touchscreen settings nearby? But anyway, you get the idea. NOTES: A. I may have a bad/weird/incomplete install. I don't totally understand Arch's "pacman". Am I actually using plasma-next? It isn't trivial to switch between the two KDEs with pacman (but at least they have plasma-next package available to try). B. Plasma-next is obviously cutting edge, not sure what is actually supposed to be working. C. The pastel colors are very soothing when you get frustrated. D. I need to figure out if KDE can't see my touchscreen, or doesn't actually know about touchscreens in general. Even so, the mousepad experience isn't that great (see the start menu comments). E. I probably have totally bad config, but out-of-box seems rough. Could be user error. F. Don't seem to have KDE docs installed, back to pacman. Also, I AM NOT RANTING, just reporting. I know people are working hard on these projects. Maybe I shouldn't be using Arch, a KDE specific image might sort out config issues. That should give you some idea, Forest. I guess I should pop the USB stick and try Ubuntu again... -- Anthony Carrico
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