ubuntu / ubuntu/Tiling-Assistant

Add proper touch support (for Wayland only)

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enhancement help needed Wayland
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Description

If I am understanding https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/295 correctly, there is no proper way for me support touch on a Xorg session.

As for Wayland, I don't know how touch works and I also don't have a touch device, so I cannot implement and test it. Someone else needs to do this.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the linked Mutter issue about touch support and researching how touch input is exposed in Wayland. Define the supported Wayland touch interactions for this extension, then test them on a Wayland session with a touch device; done means touch tiling works reliably without claiming Xorg support.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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