I’ve been using KDE Plasma on my Levovo Thinkpad Yoga, and while it’s my favorite DE on my desktop where I have a physical mouse and no touchscreen, it’s not great for a laptop plus tablet “convertible” PC. Plasma doesn’t seem to “get” touchscreen input. There’s no automatic on-screen keyboard that pops up when you highlight a text field, you can’t tap and drag, no long-press to right click, and you can only scroll by swiping on the actual scrollbar. Is there another DE, or extension to a DE, that handles inputs more like “Android for laptops”, Chrome OS, or even Windows 10? That is, has a fairly intuitive touchscreen input (it doesn’t have to be perfect like an iPad or something), while still having good support for standard mouse and keyboard. Can anyone recommend anything?
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Definitely GNOME. From my experience, it has by far the best touchscreen and gesture support from any mainstream DE
Yeah, GNOME on Wayland. Not only the DE, some GNOME apps also utilize the touch gestures.
But also if you use Firefox (or forks), make it to run on Wayland
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1(or simply enabling wayland on FlatSeal if installed via Flatpak). They you can have pinch-to-zoom feature in the web view. It’s pretty good.About the OSK, you can enable the screen keyboard on the gnome-settings in accessibility section, the OSK will appear when a textbox is clicked.
but about the long-press to right click, I don’t know anything. But just like in laptop touchpad, I think you can just do two-fingers touch to right click. Basically various gestures are to be used with some variation of finger count and swipe movement.
Definitely GNOME. From my experience, it has by far the best touchscreen and gesture support from any mainstream DE
Definitely GNOME. From my experience, it has by far the best touchscreen and gesture support from any mainstream DE
Here are some repos for touch input drivers and utilities
GNOME 100%. No question. It already looks like something that would be on a tablet.
Hmm, I’ve never tried it, but I believe Plasma could fare better than that. For example, an on-screen keyboard definitely exists. Are you on a recent Plasma version and using it under Wayland?