Re: [trinity-users] How to get an onscreen keyboard?

On Sunday 05 April 2015 22.52:45 andre_debian(a)numericable.fr wrote: (...) What onscreen keyboard did you install? I installed kvkdb from the repositories Slavek indicated. The keyboard does not "pop up" by itself as on Android (but then it does not pop up when I have a physical keyboard either, as "onscreen" does). I put an icon in the Panel and "call" it when needed. I don't know how this would work with a lock screen however... I doubt tdm knows about 3 fingers and I also doubt it would be easy to teach it. That's probably what KDE 4 devs meant when they justified the new version because KDE 3 was impossible to make "touch friendly". It comes from the fact that, if you use Trinity, you're basically using year 2000 software, and there were no tablets (at least running Linux) at the time. It's a little like criticising a 1970's car for not providing airbags... I don't know how or when KDE4 / Gnome 3 / Unity will get "tablet ready", but I must say I'm quite pleased with the fact that TDE "can be used" on a tablet, although it was not written for one! Basically, what I always thought proves to be right: those that are despreately trying to develop a user interface supposed to "scale" from a Desktop to a Tablet will fail, because a good Table interface will always feel clumsy on a big screen with a mouse (things too big, set up too streamlined) and a Desktop interface is quite unusable on a Tablet (unless you are fitted with stylus-like fingers, which is not my case). So if you put a desktop system on a tablet, you should not expect the same experience as Android. Apple is the only one to do it right: IOS is quite different from the OS X desktop. A pity it's made by Apple and suffers from Apple's policy. Thierry