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> From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 16:28:42 -0800
> 
> >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > I think a basic touch screen minor mode would be handy for some newer
> > laptops. Like, "pull down" to scroll a page, and "swipe right" to enter a
> > directory, and... stuff...
> 
> Sounds pretty useful, as touch screen laptops become more commonplace.

Doesn't X produce normal events from touch-screen gestures, like
scroll from pane, etc.?  AFAIK, MS-Windows does that, to allow legacy
applications to react to these gestures.