08-31-2023, 05:54 PM
The testing I've done so far with the PineTab2 paints a less rosy picture.
The situation for gnome apps seems to be (quite) a bit better then KDE apps (which I've tested the most thus far).
Some work decently, some work a bit and some hardly work at all with touch input.
With phog (at least on mobian on PineTab2), you can only input numbers to login, change the password to contain (also) letters and you can't login without the physical keyboard. And in other places you do get an OSK, but it's missing arrow/Ctl/Alt/Esc/etc keys and only uses half the screen width; thus likely made with only mobile phones in mind.
I was actually pretty shocked about the sorry state of OSKs and I don't foresee me using the PT2 anytime soon as a pure tablet, thus without the physical keyboard.
KMail does seem to work reasonably well, but it's still clear to me that it's optimized for keyboard control.
I did find lisgd and it looks very interesting. But I do get the impression that you'd still have to configure a lot to connect 'all the dots' to make it really usable and easy to use.
My general impression thus far is that some things appear to work, but as soon as you start to get a little further then a very superficial explorations, things fall apart ... fast.
The situation for gnome apps seems to be (quite) a bit better then KDE apps (which I've tested the most thus far).
Some work decently, some work a bit and some hardly work at all with touch input.
With phog (at least on mobian on PineTab2), you can only input numbers to login, change the password to contain (also) letters and you can't login without the physical keyboard. And in other places you do get an OSK, but it's missing arrow/Ctl/Alt/Esc/etc keys and only uses half the screen width; thus likely made with only mobile phones in mind.
I was actually pretty shocked about the sorry state of OSKs and I don't foresee me using the PT2 anytime soon as a pure tablet, thus without the physical keyboard.
KMail does seem to work reasonably well, but it's still clear to me that it's optimized for keyboard control.
I did find lisgd and it looks very interesting. But I do get the impression that you'd still have to configure a lot to connect 'all the dots' to make it really usable and easy to use.
My general impression thus far is that some things appear to work, but as soon as you start to get a little further then a very superficial explorations, things fall apart ... fast.