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Carlos, Thanks very much for your response. I have jhbuild building the target gnome-world-3.12 . Is that the correct target? I built jhbuild from source, the one in Debian unstable is out of date and fails. Jhbuild wasn't able to find the dependency for iptables, although Debian unstable has "iptables" and "iptables-dev". So, after it nicely installed all other dependencies, I had to run "jhbuild build --nodeps". It's been chugging along for an hour without failing, given one core of the core i5-3437U on the toughpad. Nice to be able to build Gnome on a tablet while all of the interactive stuff keeps working! Thanks Bruce On 02/26/2014 04:16 AM, Carlos Garnacho
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Hi Bruce!, On lun, 2014-02-24 at 21:35 -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:Hi folks, Is there a mailing list for tablet issues or tablet developers? I didn't see one. Indeed the mailing lists that aren't for developers seem to be for specific applications rather than the system itself. So, please forgive me if this is misplaced.It is true that there is no specific ML around touch/tablet support, most activity happens in the wider desktop-devel-list gnome org , or on specific clutter/gtk+ mailing lists.I've set up Gnome 3 from Debian unstable on a Panasonic Toughpad FZ-G1. This has two sensor surfaces on the screen: a stylus that is or emulates a Wacom, and an eGalaxy Touch which is a multitouch finger touchscreen. Both are using evdev, the eGalaxy also has mtdev. Kernel is 3.14 . If anyone has tested this device with Gnome or indeed Linux, there isn't any web evidence. It works, with a few little issues that I am now running down. The Wacom works correctly. The eGalaxy Touch mostly works, but something is different about the button events. On the screen keyboard, the buttons highlight when I touch them but they don't act as if they've been pressed. This also happens on all of the shell panel buttons. But finger-touch on a dock icon correctly launches the program.This was a known bug in gnome-shell 3.8, which is fixed in gnome-shell 3.10.In xev, button press and release events look identical between the two devices.xev reports legacy events that toolkits don't use that much anymore nowadays... "xinput test-xi2" will report the more modern events that gnome-shell and gtk+ applications see, XI_TouchBegin/Update/End between those, it is the interpretation of those what was causing the trouble here.Nice to see that Gnome 3 is mostly usable on tablets. I can probably test multitouch when I get through this issue.That's something that's improving over the late/future release cycles :). Unfortunately, this also means that having the latest and greatest would help in testing here... Cheers, Carlos |