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Re: Easy things for Android port
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T.V Raman |
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Re: Easy things for Android port |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Jan 2023 07:27:35 -0800 |
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Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
This is awesome progress.
One question re on-screen keyboard:
Given Emacs' heavy usage of modifier keys, simply adding on-screen
keyboard support may not deliver something very useful.
perhaps we should step back and ask "How Can Emacs Leverage Touch Input"
in a broader sense, and use that as the motivation to do some real UI
innovation > The Android port, found in feature/android, is now useful for
editing,
> given that you have a mouse and keyboard.
>
> If someone wants to do easy things for the Android port, they would be:
>
> - make dired.c understand the `/assets' special directory.
>
> - make drawing faster by avoiding the extra canvas save and restore on
> each graphics op, only doing that if clip rectangles really change.
>
> - add support for touch screen events, like in xterm.c, and the
> on-screen keyboard.
>
> - add support for the TrueType Container format to sfnt.c and
> sfntfont.c. This is easy because TTC files are just TrueType files
> with multiple table directories, each representing a single font.
>
> - add support for window restacking and geometry operations
> (i.e. raise-frame, android_reparent_window, et cetera.)
>
>
--
Thanks,
--Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research)
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