Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Touch-friend apps in Ubuntu/Debian?
I'm working on a personal pet project and wanted to get some feedback on the best apps to use in a touch only environment. I know that there are a few people who use Debian or Ubuntu on a tablet, and I was hoping to get suggestions on the best desktop environment and apps available. Please leave some comments with suggestions, and with a little luck, I'll have something to demo on this blog in a few weeks.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
GNOME3 has many design features which work really well on a tablet.
Also, take a look at mallit for a nice on-screen keyboard.
You might want to look at the Cordia HD project:
http://cordiahd.org/
Or SHR if you want apps for phones that are touch-friendly:
shr-project.org
A lot of this stuff could use packaging, once the Debian mobile team gets formed. Come join us on #debian-mobile on OFTC to chat about it.
I tryed unity and gnome-shell, and to be honest gnome-shell was more touch-friendly. But a simple gesture to reveal dock (4 finger doesnt work on my screen) + a decent keyboard to unity should make it(All that should be resolved if we have a looks to last UDS). I just read this from gnome planet: http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2011/11/16/maliit-the-only-real-on-screen-keyboard/ .
About the best app:
-You have cellwriter if you use stylus and xournal for notes.
-for web browsing, use a nightly of firefox mobile that switch to tablet UI if your screen is large enought.
-easystroke to create gesture
-KDE/plasma usualy works well with touch
- Qtmoko a debian based distro for phone (maybe the most usable (imho) on the neo freerunner without stylus)
- finally there are many game playable with touch, but my favorite is apt://gamine :D
Librement
Gname 3.2 ships with a new on-screen Keyboard and it looks quite nice actually.
http://justabovethetagclouds.blogspot.com/2011/06/big-success.html
My favourite touch-sensitive Debian/Ubuntu package is mypaint about whose coolness I wouldn't know about if I hadn't had to test it to sponsor it. :-)
Post a Comment