Re: Touchscreen support

[Stefan Monnier]

Po Lu [2021-12-17 20:36:20] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> What I don't understand is why we need to (re)implement this.  I mean,
>> obvious all other applications will want/need something similar, so
>> isn't there some standard library offering the functionality already?
>
> There isn't one we can acceptably use on X, and the other platforms
> (such as GTK and NS) offer very different meanings of what constitutes a
> "gesture" which are difficult to abstract around in a useful manner.
>
> Other cross-platform programs I examined such as Mozilla Firefox also
> implement gesture recognition from scratch.

Hmm... that sucks.  Hopefully this will improve in the longer term,


        Stefan