Hey everyone, 
I noticed that YouTuber called “The Linux Experiment” tested a Touchscreen on Ubuntu 24.10 and I wanna know about “Enhanced Tiling” included since 23.10 not supporting touchscreen but the mouse and a touchpad and resizing App center using a touchscreen doesn’t seem to work but using mouse or a touchpad does work, will that problem be fixed?
I know GNOME’s own version of Tiling Group called “Active Screen Edges” works just fine for Touchscreens.
romactu1 - ouch
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This topic should be edited by now.
I hope they can follow that properly.
Thanks for the reminder.
Not sure why this was hidden, when it was a legitimate question.
The original video that showed that Ubuntu’s GNOME wasn’t working correctly.
https://youtu.be/C0gxI_cSfaU (timestamp 13:45)
New video showcasing touch screen working on Fedora
https://youtu.be/nCSs4CbxZHk?si=EC6JFTNHMxh1_3kh
I didn’t watch the videos, but here’s my anecdotal counterpoint:
I have three touchscreen computers, one each running Ubuntu 24.04, 24.10 and plucky (will be 25.04). Although I don’t primarily use touch, I’ve never had an issue.
Over the new year the only computer I brought on a short trip was a Surface Go is mostly used by my son for drawing. I used it almost exclusively with touch for entertainment (web reading and a card game) with no problems either.
Moving the The Lounge, a better fit for this topic in its current state.
The question you are asking seems unclear.
I didn’t watch the whole videos. Far too shouty for me.
Also the line “a lot of people argue that GNOME was designed for touch screens”. Who? Who argued this? Clueless internet peanut gallery, that’s who. Just because a bunch of mouth-breathing YouTube commenters say something is true, doesn’t mean it is.
I have a laptop with a touch screen, and I have never attempted anything in that video. If I did, and it didn’t work well, I’d probably file a bug, not make a sponsored youtube video about it, especially not one where a full third of the video runtime is adverts.
Nick is lovely, but this isn’t worth discussing unless you have useful data and can report issues you see with your own eyes to the developers.
End of rage.
I guess its the impression of its design? I remember when I first started Linux around a decade ago back in high school, I thought GNOME was a tablet UI
Didn’t watch the videos, either. In general, I think a post with low content and a link or two is a poor post altogether. If you feel the link has some context you want to discuss, summarize it. Think about Wikipedia. The links there are used as references, not as the actual content. We’re not Reddit here.
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I’ve been around Linux a long time and never thought GNOME was a tablet project. Maybe that’s why: I knew it predated them (well, tablets as we think about them today— pen tablets came earlier). I think at the very least @popey’s “clueless” comment applies here. Maybe it’s best to not assume anything.
That said, I’ve seen a number of tablets with Lubuntu on them. Lots of tablets are low-spec, so it’s an ideal flavor for it. I’ve never bothered with trying one out myself but maybe one of these days.
Yeah, it’s basically that. Everyone sees the big squircle icons and thinks “That looks like my phone/tablet, this is a tablet OS”. But I don’t think it’s ever really been well targeted at that.
Sorry for the initial grumpy initial reply, btw 
For all those that didn’t see the video, the main complain is that menus doesn’t “stick”, but disappear as soon as you remove the finger from the screen. He expects to touch once, the menu appears, and then touch again in the menu to select the option. The odd thing is that in out-of-the-box GNOME it seems to work that way.
Here’s what I discovered on my YouTube video. 
I noticed about how to use a touchscreen correctly, which includes using a finger and a thumb (If needed).
I merged the thread from @romactu1 to the existing thread here in Lounge because they’re both about that YouTube video.
It’s just a basic way, I guess. 
Don’t worry, I’ll think about using OBS with some edits in order to follow very well, it’ll be a great example.
I haven’t done much touch-screen testing myself, either, but in the one touchscreen computer I have - a Lenovo 300e Chromebook mk.2, I had a chance to compare the touch-screen behaviour of the default Gnome install on Debian Bookworm, and the current Ubuntu Oracular Oriole.
Oracular sports Gnome 47, and the difference with Bookworm’s “vanilla” Gnome 46 is huge - G47 behaves much, much better in this realm. In fact, with Gnome 47, the chromebook is as usable in its “tablet” mode as it was back when it ran ChromeOS (barring a couple of gestures).
To my mind, the only real impediment to using Oracular Oriole with a touchscreen is not down to the desktop environment, but down to the fact that most of the apps I use on a daily basis are not really meant to be used via a touchscreen, or are not particularly useful in that state (read: I don’t do much drawing). My best use for the touchscreen is in tablet mode, while reading or browsing.
So these are my 2 cents. Shall I now go and make a YouTube video of me screaming with a screencap of my face after sitting on a hedgehog? 
Here’s another version, but this time, it’s record by using OBS and Blender (For edits).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7LFX47I_js
That’s right @YamiYukiSenpai
I just noticed that, so I have to make tutorial on How to use a touchscreen on Ubuntu 24.10, it seems to be okay, just need another finger or just use a thumb afterwards when holding something with a finger.
I’m happy to see your thoughts about both videos that are How-to article.
Such as mark 1 and 2.