Quote:
Originally Posted by Quoth
This is why a Touch device and keyboard + mouse device needs a DIFFERENT GUI. The Windows 8 / Windows 10 attempt at a hybrid GUI is a failure.
Touchscreens on real laptops are thankfully rare, except on hybrid models that turn into a tablet.
Touch is a more limited GUI unless there are obvious gestures as there is generally no hover, no right click, no middle click etc and no modifiers.
Applications should either be designed for real touch UI OS, such as iOS or Android, or designed for keyboard+ Mouse, the traditional GUI invented by Xerox in 1976. Used on BSD, Solaris, RiscOS, MacOS, Beos, Windows up till 7, Linux and others.
An application that tries to satisfy touch and traditional WIMP GUI will be an abomination.
Also a TV needs a 3rd kind of GUI.
Monitor screens with touch are only suitable for interactive displays, POS etc and are a waste for normal OS use with a keyboard and mouse.
|
For now we were talking about Calibre on PC, there wasn't any references about development history of GUI, nor about TV, POS etc. Only about Calibre on PC which could be controlled either by keyboard, mouse, touchpad or touchscreen. At the same time touchpad and touchscreen could emulate mouse clicks (single or double click) not keyboard Ctrl, Alt etc.