From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Touchscreen support Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 23:42:49 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87czlxkntg.fsf.ref@yahoo.com> <87czlxkntg.fsf@yahoo.com> <87mtkziwhi.fsf@yahoo.com> <87wnk3h0hn.fsf@yahoo.com> <877dc2xsjn.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40121"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 20 05:44:55 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mzAXf-000AJA-Er for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 20 Dec 2021 05:44:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37038 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mzAXe-0002sV-H8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 23:44:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45680) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mzAVe-0000Wz-1G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 23:42:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=57032 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mzAVd-0005mX-Md; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 23:42:49 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=clOy1hp7jAnnSMGf/Y8hjTsPAZGf4XFLtEwn2fSTVZA=; b=HHzfIZ13RmUD EzSbzvbHcb3Ezr0lto46kDfn93xoIwu3D/v6KPty/3XiEtAdXsEhOaAarRk7B9eyCcY5C5KF/wdJR 8Ga2h9qVIEtE9wBWmHqeUxErPYjkZg80YiX6ag1rJFSz/9v2x2JcVRrATaMLSCvIl2g4dWop1Trks 08zQHFJ5QS/1PSAKmduVgtdudVKbQ4Q1a6ZTIn7cd276jFytzRJwN4ymqDnYjaMtPsnQHVBjT4hqt 4KuWdHLMYfJaScWv7ySILAvU21FwLl0/KPrVUOS7UGrZEJQVqcXY/vHwVQo3T4FRbMQaJa28tT0Q8 fWkpf5hyVjYChURfcH+vfA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mzAVd-000561-O5; Sun, 19 Dec 2021 23:42:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <877dc2xsjn.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat, 18 Dec 2021 08:48:12 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:282498 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > It's unlikely -- they've instead been removing what little gesture > support that originally existed, leaving it all to the applications to > figure out. (I had some rudimentary gesture support going in Emacs > about half a decade ago, and it stopped working as they removed those > bits from... was it Gnome or was it X? I forget.) Is there a library for this that we should consider using in Emacs? We should allow a sufficient time to consider the question -- at least a month. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)