On 10/16/11, Peter John Hartman <> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:13:03PM -0400, Kurt H Maier wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Anselm R Garbe <>
>> wrote:
>> > Do we really agree that touch interfaces do suck less?
>
> I think there's a category error or something here. Touch interfaces,
> indeed, entire touch-driven devices exist. Such hardware might suck
> less or it might suck more (probably the latter). But, granted the
> existence of such hardware, the real question is: which software that
> runs it sucks less? Presumably, the software we write will suck less
> than the going alternatives.
>
> Peter
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setting aside the idiotic and arbitrary differentiation between a
'touch interface' and any other mouse-only interface, we shold write
separate touch/mouse software instead of feature-creeping such things
into keyboard-focused programs like dwm.
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# Kurt H Maier
Received on Sun Oct 16 2011 - 19:12:56 CEST