I got fedora KDE with surface-kernel working but the touchscreen usability is LACKING. is there a way to improve the touch interface?

  • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 hours ago

    What do you mean by lacking?

    I think QML apps are meant to be designed to work on touchscreens but whole pre-QML apps prioritize a mouse+keyboard interface I’d be curious as to how that sucks for touchscreens?

  • Maiq@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    9 hours ago

    My touchscreen is pretty spanky, might be because i have a surface 9 or might be me using garuda an arch derivative. Newer kde and kernel.

    In what way is the touchscreen lacking?

    • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Stuttering, two finger support is missing (I guess , I haven’t seen an option for it ). And I can’t switch desktops and such.

      • pewpew@feddit.it
        31·
        7 hours ago

        My Thinkpad touchscreen works great on Plasma with multitouch support. Multitouch should be enabled by default, try doing a pinch to zoom in Firefox or a three finger up or down gesture to show the desktop overview

      • Maiq@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        8 hours ago

        3 finger swipe switches desktop for me. I keep the desktop switcher widget in my panel for when I use the stylus.

        What OS are you using? just reread your post. I didnt have a great time on fedora. It was my first OS I tried. Then I went with garuda.

        • prunerye@slrpnk.net
          1·
          1 hour ago

          Yeah, I agree. “Stuttering” doesn’t sound like a touchpad-specific issue. My guess is there’s something funny about Fedora, either drivers or kernel flags or default plasma settings, that just isn’t playing well with that specific device. I wouldn’t be surprised if another distro magically fixes it.

          Edit: Or there’s a hardware issue. Gnome caused the device to grind to a halt?

  • Zak@lemmy.world
    23·
    9 hours ago

    My solution in the same situation is to use Gnome. I strongly prefer KDE on a desktop/laptop, but Gnome is an outstanding tablet UI and KDE isn’t… except that Gnome’s onscreen keyboard is crap.

    • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      8 hours ago

      I was using gnome but it made my surface pro 4 basically grind to a halt. Decided to try KDE. It’s much quicker but I get a somewhat stuttery touch screen session. And trying to switch desktops is terrible.