touch screens in ubuntu

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 06:18 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote:
> On 10/25/2010 01:27 AM, Thierry de Coulon wrote: 
> > On Monday 25 October 2010 02:15:47 am Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> > (...)
> >   
> > > > touchscreen? Anybody have experience? Are there many linux applications
> > > > around supporting touch screens?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > 
> > > > Kjetil
> > > >       
> > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20013760-264.html
> > >     
> > I would just like to say (nothing to do specialy with Jordon :) that I have 
> > been making some searches these last days and I have come across more 
> > messages like this one (just a link) that were useless because the link was 
> > dead.
> > 
> > I think we should keep in mind that these mailing lists talks stay on the web 
> > longer than many sites keep their stuff online and add a short description of 
> > what we wanted to say.
> > 
> > Thierry
> > 
> >   
> 
> The link isn't dead. From the page:
> 
> August 16, 2010 12:06 PM PDT 
> Ubuntu bringing multitouch to Linux
> 
> The next version of Ubuntu will get multitouch interface abilities,
> catching the Linux operating system up to Windows and Mac OS X in at
> least one domain.
> 
> "Every single major PC manufacturer has been asking for a touch story
> on Linux. This has been one of the major missing points for Linux in
> the PC ecosystem," said Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the company
> called Canonical that develops and supports Ubuntu. But multitouch
> support will arrive in the next version of Ubuntu, 10.10, aka Maverick
> Meerkat.

I thought that old Kiosk effort worked with touch screens. Never saw
one, but I assumed. I know, sign on my back sez "Kick me." Ric


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