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Re: Debian tablet computer



Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<markMLl.debian-arm@telemetry.co.uk> wrote:

I wonder if I could ask a generic question at this point: how good is the
touch handling on (affordable) current and upcoming tablets,

 from what i can gather, capacitive touchpanels don't have "pressure
sensitivity" - it's too complex for the DSPs to handle: they're barely
keeping up with being able to calculate the picofarad-level charge
drops and distinguish this from stray capacitance from things like AC
current, charging, nearby objects and so on, as it is.

 i could be (and often am) completely wrong about that, though :)

and would they
support something like http://risujin.org/cellwriter/ which is claimed to
recognise arbitrary Unicode characters but is designed for something like a
Wacom pad?

 i don't see why not.  it's an absolute inputdev with crude but
reasonable accuracy (after plenty of de-bounce processing).

Thanks, interesting. I've got a hankering for a tablet on which I can enter APL or similar notation. (A number of languages now have limited support for non-ASCII operators, and apparently you can define custom operators in Perl 6).

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