Re: Emacs touch interface

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2016-02-05, at 06:34, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> I spent a day googling and scratching my head, but it seems like the
> support for gestures in Linux is pretty weak.  For instance, by default
> the Unity interface in Ubuntu doesn't let through any gestures to the
> applications, and the ones it does recognise (four-fingered ones) can't
> be remapped.
>
> You have to recompile Unity to do anything with the events, and in
> addition you have to run a separate daemon to translate events.
>
> So I'm not going to proceed any further down that lane for Emacs.
> Unless I'm misunderstanding something basic here, this is all pretty
> immature (on GNU systems, at least).

That's a pity.  I'd *love* to be able to use Org proper on, say, an
Android tablet, and e.g. swipe to change the state of TODOs.

> But here's what I ended up with as a touch interface for my Emacs-based
> music player:
>
> http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/02/05/touchy-emacs/

Nice!

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University