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0 pointsbigyabai2mo ago0 comments

> How is ubuntu support for touchscreens these days?

GNOME supports multitouch gestures, and the GTK4 toolkit is overall very touch-native. It strikes a nice balance between overpadded and touch-accessible, IMO: https://www.gnome.org/

(some of the newer Libadwaita widgets that GNOME is using: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libadwaita/doc/main/wid... )

> How does it compare to an ipad in terms of fidelity / responsiveness

With Wayland, it's borderline identical.

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awongh2mo ago

> GNOME supports

I've heard that there's *support* -but is the experience of having a touchscreen on an ubuntu device actually usable and good?

For example some random GUI app you're likely to use on ubuntu is the experience not broken?

I guess Chrome is the first thing that comes to mind.

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akdev1l2mo ago

>With Wayland, it's borderline identical.

Come on lol. I have a couple steam decks and both are really clunky.

Most applications are not built using GTK4 nor Qt6 for that matter.

On my steam deck the keyboard never pops up by itself so I have to use a key combination and it feels like I am moving a ghost mouse around the place (rather than proper touch screen support)

I ran gnome on the deck for a while but anyway the on-screen keyboard provided by the gnome sucked so bad that I gave up (sucked as in, it groups all the keys around the center of the screen tightly together and very small)

I also have an M1 iPad Pro. No comparison because those issues simply don’t exist on iOS.

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