I’ve been forced to use gnome on my school laptop as I need tablet support and kde dropped the ball on that front. I hate it so much, but at least it works.
No tablet here, just a large touch monitor, but haven’t had any issues. Tried to search but haven’t come across much, curious about your issues because I’m considering a tablet PC for my kids.
My school requires 2in1 laptops with stylus support (and windows😖) for all engineering students. I picked up a lenovo think book 2in1 to meet the requirements and have been dualbooting manjaro on a seperate ssd as it has 2 m2 ports. I use manjaro because im used arch which I run on my gaming PC. My work laptop has had manjaro using kde plasma for a while now and I generally really like it.
When I loaded up the lenovo with manjaro/KDE it worked great as a standard laptop but whenever I tried to use the stylus or touch screen things started falling apart. Tracking was OK with the stylus but I couldn’t get pressure or tilt sensing to work and the on screen keyboard was pretty terrible. I also couldn’t get it to work properly with a few programs I need specifically for school. I spent about a week trying to get it all sorted but I was never able to get a configuration that worked consitintly and smoothly. After a fair bit of forum surfing the consensus I was able to glean was that KDE was behind the curve on touch/stylus support but gnome was supposedly better suited to it.
I’ve now been running GNOME for a couple weeks and the touch/stylus support does work much better but there are still a few hiccups. I had to install a different on screen keyboard, the one gnome comes with worked fine except for the backspace key refused to function which turns out to be a pretty big problem. My biggest complaints though are with how gnome functions in comparison to kde. The file explorer, console, text editors, menu customizations, and layouts are a lot more frustrating and clunky feeling to me. I’ve swapped most of the original stuff with KDE version wherever I could make them work. Overall its not too bad now, just different I guess. Personally I wont be using GNOME in the future if I can avoid it. Hopefully KDE comes up with functional touch/stylus support so I can switch back.
Personally I wont be using GNOME in the future if I can avoid it.
That’s a sentiment I’ve had since around the mid aughts, so I get it :)
And that explains the gap, my touchscreen monitor doesn’t have pressure sensitivity or a stylus, so just not an issue I’ve run into. I’ll need to keep my eyes peeled for updates on it myself - thanks again for filling me in!
Yeah, what’s the deal with the virtual keyboard!?
Apparently kde plasma don’t have a decent working virtual keyboard for the desktop.
https://discuss.kde.org/t/kde-wayland-plasma-6-has-absolutely-no-virtual-keyboards-for-desktop/35121
At least for now. The new Plasma 6.6 may have fixed that.
I’ve been forced to use gnome on my school laptop as I need tablet support and kde dropped the ball on that front. I hate it so much, but at least it works.
6.6 will release a new keyboard, who knows. https://en.ubunlog.com/KDE-Plasma-6.6-Beta-Release-New-Features-Wayland-Login-Manager/
I really hope so, KDE isn’t perfect, but gnome is just so…weird…
No tablet here, just a large touch monitor, but haven’t had any issues. Tried to search but haven’t come across much, curious about your issues because I’m considering a tablet PC for my kids.
Care to share?
My school requires 2in1 laptops with stylus support (and windows😖) for all engineering students. I picked up a lenovo think book 2in1 to meet the requirements and have been dualbooting manjaro on a seperate ssd as it has 2 m2 ports. I use manjaro because im used arch which I run on my gaming PC. My work laptop has had manjaro using kde plasma for a while now and I generally really like it.
When I loaded up the lenovo with manjaro/KDE it worked great as a standard laptop but whenever I tried to use the stylus or touch screen things started falling apart. Tracking was OK with the stylus but I couldn’t get pressure or tilt sensing to work and the on screen keyboard was pretty terrible. I also couldn’t get it to work properly with a few programs I need specifically for school. I spent about a week trying to get it all sorted but I was never able to get a configuration that worked consitintly and smoothly. After a fair bit of forum surfing the consensus I was able to glean was that KDE was behind the curve on touch/stylus support but gnome was supposedly better suited to it.
I’ve now been running GNOME for a couple weeks and the touch/stylus support does work much better but there are still a few hiccups. I had to install a different on screen keyboard, the one gnome comes with worked fine except for the backspace key refused to function which turns out to be a pretty big problem. My biggest complaints though are with how gnome functions in comparison to kde. The file explorer, console, text editors, menu customizations, and layouts are a lot more frustrating and clunky feeling to me. I’ve swapped most of the original stuff with KDE version wherever I could make them work. Overall its not too bad now, just different I guess. Personally I wont be using GNOME in the future if I can avoid it. Hopefully KDE comes up with functional touch/stylus support so I can switch back.
Appreciate the write-up!
That’s a sentiment I’ve had since around the mid aughts, so I get it :)
And that explains the gap, my touchscreen monitor doesn’t have pressure sensitivity or a stylus, so just not an issue I’ve run into. I’ll need to keep my eyes peeled for updates on it myself - thanks again for filling me in!
That’s… Not what I meant
You can install maliit but it will pull in the entire qt5 kf5 bloat.