On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 13:35, 4ernov <4er...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a proposal about different user input styles e.g. touch input > devices and pointer/mouse input devices. > > I think it's obvious that they differs considerably. As I can assume, > Qt and KDE move to be more touch-friendly. Due to MeeGo or something > else. And that's good. But sometimes it hurts mouse usability so much. > In some cases these two concepts are simply opposite. > > I think the current way to find some common behavior fails as it > ignores strengths of each concepts. I think some kind of global > setting should be added to KDE to allow applications to know what > input style to use. And application is free to implement both or only > one by itself. This can keep all the strengths of one (current) > concept without sacrificing another. And user can always change the > desired behavior. > > Just a couple of cases for now: > 1. The feature that was introduced in Qt 4.7 - you can drag the window > clicking on unused area. Quite cool on touch devices. But the sense
I thought this was an Oxygen feature, not a general Qt feature... Am I wrong about that? - Jeffery MacEachern > unclear for mouse. I can always hit Alt and do the same if I want. > I'll do it on purpose this way. And now hundreds of errors every day > when you just clicked wrong or didn't pointed very well and the window > went the opposite display corner just by one click and minimal > movement. Personally me it disturbs very much. > > 2. Microblogging plasmoid. The list of messages uses kinetic > scrolling. Very good for touch devices. But I can't select any text of > message and copy it. > > I hope this proposal can improve user experience and can make the > whole KDE ecosystem more user-friendly. > >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
