Re: New palm environment

[Florian Boor <florian.boor@kernelconcepts.de>]

Hi,

Alan Carvalho de Assis schrieb:
> Do you know some simple way to make GPE work on non touchscreen
> device? Currently is GPE running on some non touchscreen device?

i know that there are some people working on getting better support for this
into GTK. In theory you could handle this in the applications itself but that
would mess up the code and cause quite some duplication. The most problems of
pointerless device support should be fixed in GTK.
The GTK Bugzilla contains some patches against GTK 2.6 if i remember correctly
and full support for devices without any pointer device should be available in
latest GTK CVS. Some of the basic PIM applications should work quite well
without a touchscreen, but i don't think using e.g. matchbox-panel is fun with
some keys only. Another thing we need to introduce in a useful way is support
for softkeys which are quite common on devices without a touchscreen.

Another problem is text input if you have a numeric keyboard only. We have a
small tool to do this in X but currently not enough time to do much of
development on it:
http://projects.linuxtogo.org/projects/thumbpad/

Greetings

Florian

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