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[Christian Giordano <christian.giordano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Henri, the pen VS touchscreen is definitely an important issue. Thanks
for bringing it up!

At the moment I think this is probably more relevant for tablets. If you
agree, you could repost it to: ubuntu-tablet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Cheers,


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Henri Sundelin <henri.sundelin@xxxxxx>wrote:

> Hello everybody,
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> I just joined on this list - seems the right place to be as I started my
> tablet usability hacking (or should this be posted somewhere else?).. I got
> myself a new Samsung Series 7 Slate, and I've been evaluating latest
> Precise on it. Works somewhat, lots of more work required though. We'll
> see..
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> So, this device gave me some ideas on how different tablet style input
> devices like touchscreens, pens etc, should be handled - currently
> everything is always "on", which means you cannot use the pen if you want
> to lay your hand on the multitouch screen like you do when drawing on paper.
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> I think we could be more intelligent, and at least let the user easily
> choose.
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> I made a quick'n'dirty test on this, so there would be a indicator icon on
> the toolbar, and some backend logic. It seems very usable, now you can
> actually draw with the pen. You can check it out @ my blog:
> http://henris42.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/touchscreen-pen/
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> What do you think - should this kind of functionality be part of Unity?
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> Cheers,
> //HS
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