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Originally Posted by compurandom
If calibre had better touchscreen support, I'd probably use it more.
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If MS had kept a separate OS for touch, then people might be still using Windows phones and Windows Tablets. The sales of Windows tablets are tiny and mostly used as netbooks, i.e. with keyboards. Lots of people are annoyed at MS because of Windows 8 and 10, the bad attempt at hybridizing Touch and conventional WIMP GUI. Despite the fortune thrown at it, and $11 Billion on Windows phone since Win8, touch on Windows is a failure. The problem isn't Calibre, which also runs on Mac OS and Linux and till recently the Windows 7 was supported.
I tried loads of PDF viewers on my Windows 10 Tablet. None were useable in with touch, either in "Tablet Mode" or in regular mode. The menus etc ghastly to use. None could use the volume buttons. Almost every Android ereader app and PDF viewer can swipe, tap or use the volume buttons. Does a programmer writing for Windows support the 99.5% using it with a keyboard or the 0.5% never using a keyboard? The Interface formerly called Metro is the "proper way" to do write touch applications for Windows 10. Designed for a platform now dead, the windows phone.
I'm amazed that Kovid bothers to do any programming for touch at all.