• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The DE itself is less of a problem than the applications. On my Steam Deck in game mode I use Angelfish as web browser because all the mainstream browsers are just bad for touch controls compared to ones specifically designed for touch. You see a similar complaint in Windows forums were they sag that original Edge was better for tablets than Chromium Edge.

    Cool touch applications like Krita Gemini and Calligra Gemini died because “removed that touch trend, removed QtQuick, GTK forever”. Now we’re stuck with applications that need a touchpad or mouse…

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      Cool touch applications like Krita Gemini and Calligra Gemini died because “removed that touch trend, removed QtQuick, GTK forever”. Now we’re stuck with applications that need a touchpad or mouse…

      Wut… GTK is one of the very few touch friendly toolkits on *nixen. And neither of those apps were ever GTK.

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        GTK is one of the very few touch friendly toolkits on *nixen. And neither of those apps were ever GTK.

        Of course they were never on GTK because at that time GTK was absolutely useless for anything touch and it didn’t really change until libhandy became libadwaita and kinda-sorta became aligned with GTK but is also not part of GTK proper. Gimp is not touch-friendly. Modern Krita somewhat is, Krita Gemini totally was.