What’s the next step in creating an easy-to-use Linux-based product for consumers? A touchscreen facade can make back-end Linux applications very usable in such devices as custom digital media centers, DVRs and PVRs, and even control interfaces for household robots. The potential uses are limited only by the imagination. In this article, get an overview for installing an LCD taken from a Sony PSOne, creating a modeline, and installing a touchscreen — all for Linux.
No, the next step in creating an easy-to-use linux based product is to first create an easy-to-use linux based distro, i.e – involving easy to install software – point’n’click, easy to install and setup ( including getting the screen resolution right ), easy to setup peripherals especially usb, easy to setup printing, multimedia including cd/dvd burning, and ACPI support. Eye Candy is a must.
Anon
Done.
Your next problem?
Most distros detect everything during install, you can use a live cd to test before installing. Using Synaptic for package managemnt is point and click. Using K3B for burning always works for me. ACPI has worked out of the box for last few laptops I installed it on.
Of course defineing ‘easy-to-use’ is problimatic, I can find any number of users who will be confused by the simplist of things. I can show you 10 who can not enter a URL into a browser, then can only click on links to navigate.
There, I feed the troll. Lets kick him when falls asleep.
There, I feed the troll. Lets kick him when falls asleep.
He wasn’t trolling, which is why I modded you down. He was stating his opinion, and I agree with him, despite using Linux (occasionally) myself. Why is every disagreement labelled as one side being a troll on this site?
It is funny though, that very rarely do anti-MS comments get modded down on this site, even though a lot of them have less substance than the anti-linux comments.
i installed linux on a sony vaio vgn-u750p and got the touchscreen to work in x. its just hard to calibrate it.
What consumer/desktop Linux really need in my opinion is a kind of hybrid between what it got now (apt-get) and the Mac way of installing applications (drag into program folder to install). More userfriendly for “newbs” than that aint possible to find.
Except for that I think desktop Linux has reached very far, and is more than ready for the desktop…atleast the “corporate consumer” desktop; i.e. people that want to use their machine for Internet browsing, chatting, writing documents, reading e-mail… When it comes to games its not really there, but thats the game developers fault…
why would anyone think that fingertapping a button is more userfriendly than mouseclicking it?
Think about a cool tiny media linux box with the screen as your input device. Who wants a keyboard and mouse in the living room? Or just about anywhere there isn’t a desktop? I think it would be nice to have it sitting there for looking up addresses, or running an mp3 player, or finding recipies. Whatever, it’s not a bad idea.
Think different.
You like ‘mouseclicking’ when you drive your car?
It was indeed a troll, which is why I modded the person who responded back up. First, the comment is off-topic, as it has nothing to do with using a touchscreen with Linux. Second, it is clearly a comment made to spark yet another flamewar on this site. As such, it is a troll.
Why is every disagreement labelled as one side being a troll on this site?
This wasn’t a disagreement since it had nothing to do with the subject of the linked article. It was an attempt at sparking a flamewar.
I have to disagree with your assessment that every disagreement being labelled a troll. There are many disagreements that aren’t trolls, but usually they don’t come from anonymous users…
It is funny though, that very rarely do anti-MS comments get modded down on this site,
You can’t compare anti-MS comments with anti-Linux. MS is a company. You probably meant anti-Windows comments – and yes, many of the latter have been modded down. A simple look at the last Windows thread will prove this.
even though a lot of them have less substance than the anti-linux comments.
Don’t look, but I think your bias is showing…
The biggest flaw in this article is that it doesn’t give you a clue where to get a touchscreen overlay from or discuss the difference between the types to help you choose what to get. Looking online for places to get a touchscreen in the UK, I couldn’t find anywhere that did one to fit this small screen and the few sites that did touchscreens were expensive.
The only problem with touchscreens is finding software
that recognizes/uses it. The price of an LCD monitor with touchscreen is also way out of line, considering that
touchscreen technology is not that advanced compared to the LCD monitor underneath it. Why does having a touchscreen effectively double the price of an LCD monitor? That’s crazy
I don’t know about you but I would rather have a fastfood clerk press the pretty picture of hamburger
then have them try to spell hamburger.
Edited 2005-12-09 05:32
I had to reread a few times to put the PSOne together with Touchscreen – what si a decent touchscreen to buy that will interact with the PSOne screen?