Re: Out of the box Touchscreen/tablet support.

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On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 15:55 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> There was one tester that drop by the test list and mentioned that the 
> touchscreen on his Lenovo Ideapad S10-3t did not work which raised the 
> question what's the current status on out of the box touchscreen/tablet 
> support ( single/multi ) in the Kernel/Xorg/Gnome in Fedora?
> 
> Given that there are more and more touchscreen/tablets coming of the 
> product line and they are getting increased popularity with end user 
> perhaps it should be considered a F14 feature trying to get the best out 
> of the box touchscreen/tablets experience for the end user?
> 
> Perhaps the project could try to sponsor those that are willing to work 
> on it by providing them with tablets?

I think that particular issue is a development one - it's a missing or
broken driver. Not a matter of implementation at the desktop level. I
agree that the general case warrants consideration, though; assuming the
kernel / X layers provide proper support for a touchscreen device, our
desktop touchscreen experience should be good.
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