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@g1smo I was able to set up #touchegg only to find out that scroll gesture was removed in v2 due to its bad UX 😭 There are workarounds with #xdotool which I'll try out when I find further motivation.

Thanks for help.

Another banger series of updates by #KDE - especially stoked by the new Animations (config) section, that alone is a huge boost to usability/intuitiveness of #KDEPlasma.

Heck, even some of the other updates are positive (and necessary) UI/UX improvements like highlighting newly installed apps in the app launcher, triggering DND when an app is in fullscreen mode (and focused), informing the user if the mic is muted when an application is trying to use it, and even adding a warning/disclaimer when a user tries to, 'presumably' configure the clipboard system tray icon alone without knowing that under the hood, it's actually affecting the service and why they might not want to do what they're doing (they have to fix this tho long term).

All in all, it's always a good time when Nate Graham is summarising these positive changes up :) NOW I look forward to the day when we'd have a dedicated settings page purely for configuring ALL touchpad gestures.. PLEASE. I'm happy all the drawing tablet folks are getting the love from KDE on #Wayland, but it'd be so nice to have this for the touchpad too considering how many people use these on laptops or even PCs with touchpad i.e. #Apple's Magic Trackpad. For now, these people need to rely on hacky workarounds like using #Touche/#Touchegg, which isn't even meant to work on Wayland (but somehow it does, without none of that one-to-one gesture goodness tho unfortunately).

RE: https://floss.social/users/kde/statuses/114403557090038351

I'm looking into ways to scroll on #touchscreen on #debian with #i3. I haven't yet find a reliable solution. Any advice and/or experience? Gestures would be nice, but it looks like #touchegg is not included in debian apt anymore. I guess I'll have to install it manually. #askfedi

I'm testing out boox mira #eink #monitor.

So hyped for this - but I'm still patiently waiting for trackpads to have better support on #KDE, particularly the need for customising gestures cos the defaults on #Wayland are just... not good enough. I'm still relying on my #Touche/#Touchegg config to fix this, and fortunately it somehow still works despite being an #X11 only solution.

RE: https://floss.social/users/kde/statuses/113985000047425897

OK nvm on that first point regarding the touchpad/trackpad gestures on #Wayland/#KDEPlasma 6 - the very #macOS like gestures were still just thanks to my #touche/#touchegg config I made when I used #X11 lol so yea, don't really know yet what's nice/different with using the touchpad with Wayland vs X11.

RE: https://sakurajima.social/notes/9x003d59dz

On the note of not-immediately-obvious benefits I've noticed since making the switch to Wayland:

- My Magic Trackpad works great right out of the box - I think this is bcos of Wayland, including the 3-swipe up gesture to launch Overview and 3-swipe down on an app to open "Expose"-like view a la macOS (UPDATE: It's not, apparently the OOTB experience/gestures is awful, and mine's great thanks to Touchegg which I've already been using on X11). Pinch to zoom was an obvious new addition though which is nice. They worked fine and similar to when I was on X11 though with help using something like #Touchegg to configure my gestures. I'm not seeing "1:1" gestures though that I've been hearing so much about - I wonder what that's all about... I thought it'd be like macOS but maybe I had the wrong expectation.

- Previously on X11/Plasma 5, I'm not too sure what's the cause or what triggers it, but I often get this particular issue when (I suspect) I use too much memory over time - I often could repro it when I open too many tabs too long on Firefox, where I'd then get a bug where windows of all kinds including context menus, app windows, notifications, hint messages, etc. appearing completely black. The fix was then to just restart and as long as I don't use Firefox like a maniac for too long, this issue never occurs. I think I remember seeing people say that it happens when too many pop-ups appear in short periods of time such as notifications or any sort of file-manager dialogs, etc. On Wayland, it doesn't seem to happen at all anymore - even when I'm using something crazy like 28GB out of 32GB of memory. That's really nice.

@playdate From the maker of #TouchEgg!

#Playdate

The second is a curated list of desktop environments (DEs) with the best touchscreen support. I’m not as worried about this one, because the wonderful #touchegg program exists. But built in support is nice.

https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-linux-desktop-touch-enabled-monitor/?amp

#linuxtablet Through all of this, I've been trying to stick to Gnome, because I like it for the most part. Is it perfect? No! I wish the keyboard allowed for terminal commands and function keys and such, rather than a basic character set. But over all, I've liked the look and feel of it, and haven't tried too much else. However, most of the bugs I'm dealing with revolve around GTK and Gnome. It has me thinking... It's not the ONLY way. There are DEs and there is #touchegg. There is KDE Plasma.