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On 06/23/2015 10:50 AM, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jun 23 2015, Christopher Jones wrote: |
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>> Sent from my iPhone |
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>> Regarding the touch screens/tablets, Gentoo has drivers for them. I've |
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>> been using Gentoo on my tablet PC for years now. However there's no |
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>> swipe capability. I've read someone who did it but that was just one |
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>> person and couldn't figure out how he did it. I think they used KDE's |
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>> Plasma. |
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> Thanks. I use gnome and would make little use of the touch screen |
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> capability if it were available. As a result I decided against it for |
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> this purchase since it appears the admin overhead would exceed the very |
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> modest use I would make of it. Hopefully in 3 years, when I buy my next |
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> laptop it will be well supported and "just works" in gnome. |
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> thanks again, |
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> allan |
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I discovered another mark against touchscreens - I tried to repair a |
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friend's laptop with a touch screen (not a Dell) and found that the |
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supply chain for parts for repair is slim to none. They do break and in |
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a couple years you may not be able to find a digitizer (or if you do you |
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can't get it separate from the laptop screen assembly - camera, screen, |
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digitizer). And if you are really unlucky you'll find that the |
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connectors are different from the non-touch to the touch models so |
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swapping in a plain screen won't work. |
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Dan |
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