KDE Plasma Desktop and multitouch

[GegoXaren]

Oh god!

Qt... Can we please have the sanitation crew in here to remove this faeces?

[siriuslymessedup]

if i see this on a mac i'm going to scream :X

[daimoni1]

looks buggy and clumsy.

[alexnikotyn]

Looks buggy, laggy and choppy, Nice!

[aydinbey79]

perfect..

[TheJakeDTH]

Buggy as hell. But hey, that's KDE, and Windows for that matter.

[Jester995]

@TheJakeDTH If you mean the poor response to multi-touch, I actually think that's more because the idiot demonstrating it is completely inept and seriously lacking dexterity.

[CoolFire666]

@TheJakeDTH It looks a lot like the machine they're running the demo on isn't nearly powerful enough for it.

[SolarGranulation]

It has been alleged that this demonstration is running on Windows. Could you please clarify this issue?

[maybenotmart]

yes, KDE runs perfectly on windows (i hoped being clear enough that this was a KDE on windows build).

Qt at the moment has support for multitouch only on windows7, due to the fact that X11 multitouch support is actually younger than this feature and the usual lack of drivers, so altough is being worked on is still for a future Qt release.

as soon as The support for X11 multitouch will be good and finalized in Qt, KDE features shown here will automatically work.

[lemone3000]

does this only work on wigets

[svensko]

So how unstable with this KDE release be?

[baglungnepal]

Where the hell have been? Having you even tried i? I doubt it caused u don't know what u are talking about. I think this is the most stable release since the KDE 3.XX

[ibran]

Cool, but let's see some effort going in to practical use. So the browser window can be turned at an angle; how does this correspond to real-world user activities?

[jeroeniskoning]

Ownage.

"The future will be open."

[kyeldon]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Push that solution instead of the Appstore-DRM defective Ipad from Apple....

[drevenkaine]

This concept will really come to fruition once there is further development of holographic user interfaces. The use of this technology on displays of this size seems wholly unnecessary. It makes perfect since on a held held device for the purpose of selecting icons. I can also see it making sense on a huge screen laid out on a table top. But having it on a standard monitor and using it to adjust the size of pictures, it seems unintuitive. It would also tire out the user in the long run.

[Ormaaj]

Apparently we didn't learn our lesson the first time.

See Wikipedia: Touchscreen#Gorilla_Arm

[drevenkaine]

excellent thank you for that. I guess their just repeating the same mistake again. Nothing new nothing old.

[Nphyx]

Newer touch surfaces tend to be mounted on a horizontal plane or be portable (as in this demo) which overcomes that problem. I get a serious "gorilla arm" case when I have this set up on the easel at a comfortable viewing angle for typing, but when I lean it back and bring it up close or pack it around in my arm it's quite comfy. I am using an HP model, not the Dell pictured here, but same/same.