On Monday 06 April 2015 09:51:58 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Sunday 05 April 2015 22.52:45 andre_debian@numericable.fr wrote:
I installed "kvkbd-trinity", but no onscreen-keyboard, on my touchscreen computer with Jessie. I can open applications and close applications with fingers, but no onscreen-keyboard.
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...
Hi Andre, First, start kvkbd-trinity, then it will stay in the notification area. You just have to click on it hen you need it. I am currently doing a similar setup on my newly received Sagem Spiga mini laptop. It has a keyboard, but the layout is hard to understand and very strange, so I will rely on the touch screen kb. I am almost sure that TDE doesn't support multi-touch features at this moment, but it might be provided by Xorg, so I might be wrong on this one. -Alexandre
Hello,
Thanks for your answers.
"kvkbd-trinity" works if I launch it (icon), (the keyboard is not very "practical" and not easy to use...)
With Windows-8, the onscreen-keyboard starts automatically when we need it. Maybe too with the Desktop KDE4 or Gnome... ? (I will try asap), and also testing the zoom with three fingers.
Very difficult to have the perfection... :-)
André
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 does't come from the computer, because everything works well with Windows-8.
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