On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 11:16 +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: > Hi, > > The Dell Canvas 27 has a new tool called the Totem[1]. > This tool is aimed at popping up a menu right around it and the user > can select the desired menu by turning the tool and pushing it (it > has > an embedded button). > > Microsoft has a similar one[2] known as the Surface Dial. The one > from > Microsoft works with BLE so it is possible to use it without an > touchscreen (from what I've seen on internet, the menu will pop up in > the middle of the screen). > > I think it would be good for Fedora and Gnome to support such a tool, > given that studios are the main target for it. > > However, this requires quite some effort in all the layers as it is a > new type of tool. > > I started creating a few bug trackers: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1511846 (kernel) > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1511851 (libinput) > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1511854 (mutter) > > Feel free to clone those in the respective upstream projects. > > My guess is that we need changes in the kernel, libinput, wayland and > mutter. I might be wrong, please correct me if I am. Well, thats the low-level plumbing. It can certainly be done for f28. But if you want this to be useful to users, it needs some serious design, toolkit and application work. Those circular menus don't exist, and we have the paint tools we have are probably not ready for two- handed operation. _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
