On 02/02/2014 06:04 AM, Alexander GS wrote:
Touchscreen's on a developer workstation? That sounds more like a
tablet or media consumption all-in-one device. Also the Wayland is
still in alpha on Gnome 3 Shell and nowhere near ready. You're talking
about future events that haven't happened or things that aren't relevant
to desktop workstations.
It does seem like laptops with touchscreens are becoming more and more
common. When I counted for fun at a local computer store here in town it
was 1 in every 3, and according to Wikipedia it's one of the
requirements of the Ultrabook v3 (Shark Bay) specification [1]. Even the
Lenovo ThinkPad that is more popular among programmers comes with one in
the new T440s model [2].
A lot of these new machines also comes with hi-dpi screens, so that is
certainly something that needs to work out of the box using free software.
I hope the above data helps.
1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrabooks#Specifications
2.
http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-t440s.aspx
- Andreas