From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs touch interface Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:28:28 +0100 Message-ID: <87y4azv9w3.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87wpqjpvns.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454660936 14880 80.91.229.3 (5 Feb 2016 08:28:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 08:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 05 09:28:48 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aRbl1-0005VT-DT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:28:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46767 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aRbl0-0004pB-T9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 03:28:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46076) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aRbku-0004nc-D4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 03:28:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aRbkp-0004HT-Ug for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 03:28:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:46597) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aRbkp-0004HP-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 03:28:35 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21CF39D2002; Fri, 5 Feb 2016 09:28:35 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id YjOk1qSg+jQE; Fri, 5 Feb 2016 09:28:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2001:808:114:6:a288:b4ff:fe90:5e24]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3855B9D2001; Fri, 5 Feb 2016 09:28:29 +0100 (CET) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 25.1.50.1 In-reply-to: <87wpqjpvns.fsf@gnus.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:199367 Archived-At: On 2016-02-05, at 06:34, Lars Ingebrigtsen 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, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University