After a bunch of comments pointing out to the fact that my GNOME touch issues were linked to Ubuntu, I did another try, on Fedora, this time, and yeah, it's MUCH better.
I also gave a shot to Plasma Mobile (excellent), and Phosh (less excellent on a big screen):
@thelinuxEXP I genuinely love to see this. You're willing to actually take comments seriously and consider them, test them out, verify them yourself, and then change your conclusions on that basis without a second thought, and we all get to benefit from all of your work as you publish it.
You're a beacon of good will in a community unfairly dominated by toxic gatekeeping. 💙
@alvaroburns @thelinuxEXP Well, I guess it still is a good starting option for majority of newbies...
Please do not rush to conclusions based on one broken functionality, which is - tbh - quite niche...
It'd been a hot minute since I updated the thing, but it was still on GNOME 47 so I think the fixes came down the pipeline fairly recently.@thelinuxEXP Thank you for making this follow-up video and included Fedora Plasma Mobile. While not many people seem to be interested in Linux tablets at the moment, I was one of the few that watched both videos.
I do have a Lenovo 2-in1 tablet running Auora, although if they ever do provide Plasma Mobile images, I would rebase to that.
@thelinuxEXP Hi,
Maybe it's not upstreamed (or maybe next gnome release?), but a lot of the issues you had with gnome shell OSK aren't an issue with the mobile fork: It has modifiers only on terminals, has an emoji key, etc.
Also, I think even in upstream gnome, you can chsnge nautilus to open things on single click.
Great job responding to the comments and making a new video though!
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Thanks for the follow up video!
I use Phosh on my StarLite V and the OSK is appropriately sized for the width of the screen in portrait mode. The scaling of OSK seems to be based on the scaling of the screen and I don't think it likes scales except 100%, 200% etc. It's a little funky but way more usable than what you experienced!
@thelinuxEXP huge props for following up on this, and that was such a quick turnaround!
It's kind of frustrating to see how broken some things can be on Ubuntu, especially when they have such a huge user base. GNOME and everyone working on the whole stack work so hard to make everything work well, and then a ton of users get a broken experience thanks to extensions and downstream configuration changes. 🫠
@thelinuxEXP just a nitpick: phosh is not: "some kind of fork of gnome shell."
Its a wayland and gtk shell that does use gnome technologies, sure. but was built from ground up. It does not have code in common with gnome shell itself.
Also there is another keyboard that can used with phosh that is better for tablets.
One of the central pieces on small screens without physical keyboards it the on screen keyboard (OSK). Ever so often people want to experiment with alternative keyboards to e.g. explore alternative ways of text input (via speech or swipe) or look into how to support languages and scripts that aren’t supported by default. An alternative on screen keyboard in Phosh Requirements Link to heading Due to Phosh’s modular design (the on screen keyboard runs in a separate process) exchanging the OSK is simple.
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