12-17-2020, 06:01 AM
(12-16-2020, 10:32 AM)barray Wrote: I think it would be a reasonable requirement for a non-GUI setup to require a USB keyboard.In theory, shells can take touch input, when related drivers are installed. I never had a closer look, but htop takes mouse input, so it should not be difficult to make it recognise touch input as well. GPM could be a start: https://ostechnix.com/how-to-configure-m...-consoles/
Since console-setup is already pre-installed, we can adjust font size to be nicely readable on small screens and reduce our banner sizes a bid. Our console dialogue functions are abstracted already, hence what we then need is a touch-capable replacement for whiptail, or writing one ourselves, when we know how to enable mouse/touch input. I guess many of our menus and texts are too wide/long to display nicely at small screens without scrolling but that is a minor thing. Generally an aim is that our images come with everything that is needed to boot and configure every type of device without any additional hardware or peripheral needs, which is why WiFi support (pre-configurable via config file before first boot) and SSH is always pre-installed. So at least from my end, it shall be possible to use the native capabilities of a smartphone (respectively tablet) to set everything else up, before we ship an image.
@tophneal
Little question: After creating my account, I created three threads, before running into the new users limit, on Pinebook, PINE A64 and here. Yesterday the last two at PINE H64 and ROCKPro64 sub forums. While the last two are published already, the two in Pinebook and PINE A64 are not (yet). Are they still in a moderators review query or did I do something stupid that they are lost? I would re-create them but don't want to mess up with doubled threads
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