have you looked at fedora's plasma mobile spin? https://fedoraproject.org/spins/kde-mobile/
This has helped tremendously!
What do you mean by lacking?
I think QML apps are meant to be designed to work on touchscreens but whole pre-QML apps prioritize a mouse+keyboard interface I'd be curious as to how that sucks for touchscreens?
My touchscreen is pretty spanky, might be because i have a surface 9 or might be me using garuda an arch derivative. Newer kde and kernel.
In what way is the touchscreen lacking?
i second this, using garuda on a number of 2 in 1 machines. all touch input working as expected.
It's a great arch introductory distro. All the advantages of arch and 1/2 the learning curve.
Stuttering, two finger support is missing (I guess , I haven't seen an option for it ). And I can't switch desktops and such.
My Thinkpad touchscreen works great on Plasma with multitouch support. Multitouch should be enabled by default, try doing a pinch to zoom in Firefox or a three finger up or down gesture to show the desktop overview
3 finger swipe switches desktop for me. I keep the desktop switcher widget in my panel for when I use the stylus.
~~What OS are you using?~~ just reread your post. I didnt have a great time on fedora. It was my first OS I tried. Then I went with garuda.
Yeah, I agree. "Stuttering" doesn't sound like a touchpad-specific issue. My guess is there's something funny about Fedora, either drivers or kernel flags or default plasma settings, that just isn't playing well with that specific device. I wouldn't be surprised if another distro magically fixes it.
Edit: Or there's a hardware issue. Gnome caused the device to grind to a halt?
It did but I'm using a surface pro 4 with a special surface-kernel to make it work. so it's probably my own fault for playing god.
(Well maybe a lesser god)
My solution in the same situation is to use Gnome. I strongly prefer KDE on a desktop/laptop, but Gnome is an outstanding tablet UI and KDE isn't... except that Gnome's onscreen keyboard is crap.
I was using gnome but it made my surface pro 4 basically grind to a halt. Decided to try KDE. It's much quicker but I get a somewhat stuttery touch screen session. And trying to switch desktops is terrible.
I am surprised. I've run both KDE and Gnome on a Surface Go 2 (8100Y), which is either slower or barely faster depending on which CPU you have, and I've had no UI lag.
what's the problem? if you want bigger buttons and stuff you could try gnome?
It ground my computer to a halt, which sucks because I REALLY liked the interface.
really weird, my touchscreen laptop worked fine
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