From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: Po Lu via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Touchscreen support
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 08:18:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva6gzfk0h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnk3h0hn.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Fri, 17 Dec 2021 20:36:20 +0800")
Po Lu [2021-12-17 20:36:20] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> What I don't understand is why we need to (re)implement this. I mean,
>> obvious all other applications will want/need something similar, so
>> isn't there some standard library offering the functionality already?
>
> There isn't one we can acceptably use on X, and the other platforms
> (such as GTK and NS) offer very different meanings of what constitutes a
> "gesture" which are difficult to abstract around in a useful manner.
>
> Other cross-platform programs I examined such as Mozilla Firefox also
> implement gesture recognition from scratch.
Hmm... that sucks. Hopefully this will improve in the longer term,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-17 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87czlxkntg.fsf.ref@yahoo.com>
2021-12-16 7:31 ` Touchscreen support Po Lu via Emacs development discussions.
2021-12-16 7:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-16 8:02 ` Po Lu
2021-12-17 6:19 ` Po Lu
2021-12-17 7:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-17 12:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-17 12:36 ` Po Lu
2021-12-17 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-12-17 13:48 ` Po Lu
2021-12-17 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-18 0:02 ` Po Lu
2021-12-18 16:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-18 19:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-18 4:41 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-18 4:53 ` Po Lu
2021-12-20 4:42 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-20 4:59 ` Po Lu
2021-12-21 4:15 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-21 4:35 ` Po Lu
2021-12-22 4:16 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-22 4:39 ` Po Lu
2021-12-23 3:43 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-23 4:46 ` Po Lu
2021-12-26 3:57 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-26 5:02 ` Po Lu
2021-12-27 4:14 ` Richard Stallman
2021-12-27 6:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-12-28 4:19 ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-15 0:17 ` chad
2022-01-15 0:48 ` Po Lu
2022-01-16 5:07 ` Richard Stallman
2022-01-16 5:35 ` Po Lu
2021-12-18 7:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-18 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-19 0:24 ` Po Lu
2021-12-19 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-19 9:24 ` Po Lu
2021-12-19 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-19 9:38 ` Po Lu
2021-12-19 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-19 11:42 ` Po Lu
2021-12-19 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-20 0:54 ` Po Lu
2021-12-20 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-21 1:08 ` Po Lu
2021-12-21 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-21 12:21 ` Po Lu
2021-12-21 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-19 18:26 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-20 4:42 ` Richard Stallman
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