Hello all,
I found a second hand Acer Iconia TAB W500 - for those who don't know the
beast, it's an X86 Tablet with an optional usb keyboard and relatively modest
specs (an AMD dual core C-50 at 1GHz).
The fun of this project was to see if a Linux Tablet is usable.
It turns out (not surprisingly) that Linux does run very happily on this
machine, but that as good as no distribution (that I have found) offers a
sensible user interface for a touch screen.
Debian stable + Gnome 3 is unusable (stays stuck all the time).
openSuSE with KDE 4 looks nice but I could not find a way to get the UI
elements in a size usable with my fingers.
The best I got yet is Ubuntu with Unity. It's a disaster when it comes to
administrate the computer, but it's the best UI for usability.
While researching for this project I re-read what KDE 4 devs had said about
having to give up KDE 3 because it was not "touchfriendly", so I tried TDE on
Ubuntu. Now, TDE is actually very usable on a touchscreen. There is ONE
problem - I can't find a way to activate an onscreen keyboard.
Ubuntu/Unity starts a tool called "onboard" that works almost as expected
(does not always seem to see if an external keyboard is present). It seems to
be linked to lightdm.
I can try to run Trinity with lightdm. Or has anyone a suggestion as to how to
get an onscreen keyboard with tdm?
Ah, and there would also be the problem of emulating the right mouse button
click. Without this it's very difficule to work in tablet mode.
Happy easter!
Thierry
Hello,
On TDE Desktop, Debian Jessie, with a computer tactile (touch) screen,
the tactile virtual keyboard does'nt appear.
I can open applications and close applications,
but no virtual keyboard.
Also, impossible to zoom a a piece of the screen with
the 3 fingers.
It does't come from the computer, because everything
works well with Windows-8.
Thanks.
André
(as requested by lizi)
(sorry for spamming)
hi list,
i am using an overlay for gentoo: https://bitbucket.org/mgebert/gentoo-trinity
and i am stuck compiling tdelibs.
the only error given is
/usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib libtdehtmlrender.a
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/trinity-base/tdelibs-14.0.0/work/tdelibs-14.0.0_build'
/usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_progress_report /var/tmp/portage/trinity-base/tdelibs-14.0.0/work/tdelibs-14.0.0_build/CMakeFiles 45 46
[ 26%] Built target tdehtmlrender-static
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/trinity-base/tdelibs-14.0.0/work/tdelibs-14.0.0_build'
Makefile:116: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
* ERROR: trinity-base/tdelibs-14.0.0::trinity failed (compile phase):
* emake failed
*
does anyone know whats wrong here?
tia
k
Ubuntu 14.04 , TDE 14.0 - first install here w/Trusty and TDE 14.
This is puzzling...
$ kiconedit
The program 'kiconedit' is currently not installed.
You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install kiconedit
Well, I know if I do _that_, I'll end up with all of KDE 4.
(I was bitten by something similar to that once on Ub 10.04 and TDE 13)
So,
$ sudo apt-get install kiconedit-trinity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
kiconedit-trinity is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Huh?
Maybe:
$ kiconedit-trinity
kiconedit-trinity: command not found
So, I poke around in the TDE Menu and find it as TDEIconEdit.
So, in fact, the CLI /bin name is `tdeiconedit`.
How many more 'surprises' are there like that in TDE 14 versus TDE 13?
And, how is a neophyte linux user (which my First Wife is about to
become) suppose to know how to conqueror (or, is it TDEKonqueror?) such
problems as they arise?
Ok, ok ... so it was really just a rant. :-)
Jonesy
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Hello,
On a Jessie-Debian, last version of Trinity,
the package "kmail-trinity" cannot be installed :
"a lot of librairies are uninstallable" :
Is it au bug ?
(I use "synaptic" or aptitude install kmail-trinity)
I see on the trinity web site, that the package
"kmail-trinity.deb" doesn't exist.
Thanks for your answer.
André
L.S.
After upgrading my Debian desktop from wheezy to jessie, and trinity to
r14.0.0, Kxalc-trinity no longer starts properly.
From the commandline it looks like this:
roel@roel-dt1:~$ kcalc
kcalc: error while loading shared libraries: libtdeinit_kcalc.so: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
roel@roel-dt1:~$ dpkg -S libtdeinit_kcalc.so
kcalc-trinity: /opt/trinity/lib/libtdeinit_kcalc.so
roel@roel-dt1:~$ ls -ahl /opt/trinity/lib/libtdeinit_kcalc.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 452K dec 4 07:03 /opt/trinity/lib/libtdeinit_kcalc.so
It looks like Kcalc is searching in the wrong place for its library.
Is this a known problem?
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