Touch-friendliness

[David Edmundson]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:09 PM, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> I warned martin that I would rant about this topic, so here goes:
>
> KDE is currently used by every school in Brazil (52 million children)
> on the desktop, every university in Portugal and Russia (another
> hundred thousand or so) every German embassy (another 11 thousand) and
> be countless more all on the desktop as part of their day-to-day
> lives.
>
> KDE mobile/active devices are used by a few hundred devs, and then
> only to shove in peoples faces not to actually do anything productive
> on.
>
> In terms of cost vs gain, I don't give a crap about touch devices,
> though I've no objection to other people making them - but we should
> definitely NOT make the desktop widgets a worse experience for
> millions of people for the sake of the few mobile users. IMHO this
> applies to all KDE.
>
> </rant>
>
> Dave
>

Related: Can I pleeeease get rid of the pointless "send" button in the
text-ui. No-one in the history of the world has ever pressed it. And
it's only useful in the use case where someone is using an onscreen
keyboard which for some reason doesn't have an enter button. Which is
quite a small subset of users. (probably around 0)