Re: Touchscreen Compatibility [was: Feature proposal: combined system status menu]

[drago01 <drago01 gmail com>]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org> wrote:

> There are two paths I can see which an application can take to be
> touch friendly:
>
> a.) Distribute a completely separate binary designed for touch
>
> b.) Try to do what gnome-shell seems to be trying, i.e. detect
>      whether the app is running in a touch environment, and
>      make specific tweaks, use separate UIs for the touch environment
>      than the app would use with a mouse driven environment.

Well that assumes that touch and pointer a mutually exclusive, which
they aren't. Think about "laptops with touchscreen" is it a pointer
based device? Or a touch based?
It is neither it depends on how the user currently use it.

I don't know how to solve this but touch vs. pointer are (no longer)
mutually exclusive.