I got fedora KDE with surface-kernel working but the touchscreen usability is LACKING. is there a way to improve the touch interface?
EDIT: I’ve come to realize some of my frustration come from the shitty screen protector the dude before me put on the thing. Also downloading KDE-mobile has helped TREMENDOUSLY
have you looked at fedora’s plasma mobile spin? https://fedoraproject.org/spins/kde-mobile/
What do you mean by lacking?
I think QML apps are meant to be designed to work on touchscreens but whole pre-QML apps prioritize a mouse+keyboard interface I’d be curious as to how that sucks for touchscreens?
My touchscreen is pretty spanky, might be because i have a surface 9 or might be me using garuda an arch derivative. Newer kde and kernel.
In what way is the touchscreen lacking?
Stuttering, two finger support is missing (I guess , I haven’t seen an option for it ). And I can’t switch desktops and such.
3 finger swipe switches desktop for me. I keep the desktop switcher widget in my panel for when I use the stylus.
What OS are you using? just reread your post. I didnt have a great time on fedora. It was my first OS I tried. Then I went with garuda.
Yeah, I agree. “Stuttering” doesn’t sound like a touchpad-specific issue. My guess is there’s something funny about Fedora, either drivers or kernel flags or default plasma settings, that just isn’t playing well with that specific device. I wouldn’t be surprised if another distro magically fixes it.
Edit: Or there’s a hardware issue. Gnome caused the device to grind to a halt?
It did but I’m using a surface pro 4 with a special surface-kernel to make it work. so it’s probably my own fault for playing god.
(Well maybe a lesser god)
My Thinkpad touchscreen works great on Plasma with multitouch support. Multitouch should be enabled by default, try doing a pinch to zoom in Firefox or a three finger up or down gesture to show the desktop overview
i second this, using garuda on a number of 2 in 1 machines. all touch input working as expected.
It’s a great arch introductory distro. All the advantages of arch and 1/2 the learning curve.
what’s the problem? if you want bigger buttons and stuff you could try gnome?
It ground my computer to a halt, which sucks because I REALLY liked the interface.
My solution in the same situation is to use Gnome. I strongly prefer KDE on a desktop/laptop, but Gnome is an outstanding tablet UI and KDE isn’t… except that Gnome’s onscreen keyboard is crap.
I was using gnome but it made my surface pro 4 basically grind to a halt. Decided to try KDE. It’s much quicker but I get a somewhat stuttery touch screen session. And trying to switch desktops is terrible.
I am surprised. I’ve run both KDE and Gnome on a Surface Go 2 (8100Y), which is either slower or barely faster depending on which CPU you have, and I’ve had no UI lag.
