Is there any part of GNOME you'd like me to test on a tablet?
It occurred to me that I happen to have a development tablet that I could install GNOME on to and test software on, so I did (Fedora 17). Initial issues have been:
- no auto rotate. Perhaps my device lacks a sensor for orientation, though.
- no swipe to scroll
- no two-finger zoom or resize
- after manually rotating the screen, the touch cursor gets confused so where I touch is no longer synced up with where the cursor goes. I touch the top-left in portrait mode, and it goes to the top-left if it was in landscape.
- clicks are weird. I can successfully click many things on the interface and have them respond, but not folders in nautilus or buttons in Rhythmbox (UPDATE: sometimes they do, sometimes they don't). A USB mouse works, though.
- the on-screen keyboard will pop up when you focus a text field, but when a number of apps open, they have a text-field focused by default, resulting in the keyboard popping up, like System Settings.
- display off after N minutes doesn't actually turn off the display (like "$ xset s activate" does but just gives it a black overlay) (NEW)
- lock screen doesn't let you bring up the on-screen keyboard (I think that's fixed in a GSOC project this year though :D) (NEW)
- on-screen keyboard has no arrow-keys (so trying to use it for a terminal where you want to navigate it's history is hard) (NEW)
- the on-screen keyboard currently wants presses/mouse clicks to be exactly within a key, let alone on the right key. It would be nice if it could accept presses next to the key nearest, or even get some intelligence. (NEW)
