Design Team/Proposals/Touchscreen

Touchscreen Support

Feature description	Keyboard only hardware	Keyboard and touchscreen hardware	Touchscreen only hardware
Cursor	show always	show if trackpad used, hide if screen touched	hide always
Virtual keyboard	not required, but useful for accessibility needs	useful in ebook mode	essential, needs to appear automatically when a text field is selected (with optional ability to expose/hide for compatibility)
Cursor hover hints/palettes	accessible	accessible when using trackpad	accessible only if activated by 'right click' (touch & hold)
Keyboard shortcuts	accessible	accessible when using keyboard	not available (must rely on visual icons, HW buttons, or touch gestures)
Frame	accessible	accessible when using keyboard & trackpad	needs a touch gesture (swipe in/out from any edge) and/or new button (top left frame corner most likely), same old issues regarding discoverability of the Frame.... No physical home button on XO-3.0 hardware.
Buttons & context Menus	fine	nice to have: optimized to be touchable	size of buttons and menus needs to be optimized - user testing necessary
Screen resolution	n/a	n/a	XO-3.0 is 1024x768, continue to make sure the Sugar shell, and activities are designed to scale well
Keyboard shortcut hints	continue to add hints	continue to add hints	hide keyboard hints from touch only UI
Scrolling views	n/a	two finger drag to pan/scroll canvas	two finger drag to pan/scroll canvas, essential
Home favourite activity icons			need to increase icon layout size/spacing (larger targets, further apart)
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