repos and kickstarts for pa4

[Paul S]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org>wrote:

> I'd just like to initiate a shift in mindsets: From "PA on Mer does not
> work correctly on my device!", which we hear from pretty much everyone who
> tries to use it on a device where nobody used it before, to "I see that a
> lot of work still has to be put into making it work on this device. How do
> we get that work started?"
>
> Of course the problem is: How do users distinguish bugs related to
> hardware integration from actual PA- or Mer-Bugs? This is a problem I have
> no solution for yet. One indicator might be that it's a fairly obvious and
> critical bug which has not yet been reported on bugs.kde.org. In this
> case, it's unlikely that it happens on the devices we use as well without
> having been reported yet.
>

I think there's big potential for the x86 users like my lenovo s10-3t to
use pa4. However, there's a an xorg bug holding back x86 users since
January 2012. But, the bug is close to being fixed.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56578 for you info. Perhaps it
will be done for the fall distro updates.

Right now the best x86 touchscreen experience is androidx86, but it has the
same problems that mer does, for example, you can't even print and the eth0
does not work on android.

Now that I understand mer better, let me ask the question, would it be
possible for the xorg server used on mer to be ported to another distro?
For example, if kubuntu-active ran like mer, I think it would attract a
huge touchscreen user base.
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