Jaunty: Netbook-remix Confusion for new users with them thinking their device has a touchscreen

[Dave Morley]

Binary package hint: ubuntu-netbook-remix

In Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix alpha5 there are two menu items that are specific to touchscreens.

Most Netbook don't have touch screens I believe it would make more sense and confuse new netbook/Linux/Ubuntu users less, if this is removed and a simple touchscreen-meta-package added to the repos which pulls in all the calibration stuff.

This is what I can see happening else:

Joe Public: I'm returning this netbook the touchscreen dosen't work
Sales: Oh this device doesn't have a touch screen
JP: Yes it does look here's the facility to calibrate it
S: No really it doesn't why don't you have the xp version instead and go away

[Federico Vera (fedevera)]

Yeahp I agree, something similar must be done with the bluetooth icon (or at least make it appear only if bluetooth actually exist in the pc)... I usually remove them, but last week I forgot to do so in an acer aspire one... it was awful I spend almost 1 hour (YES one hour) trying to explain to the owner (my dad=) that the pc has no bluetooth... (I'm pretty sure he didn't believe me...)

[Rob Haines (rahaines)]

Agreed, however, my aspire one does, in fact, have blue tooth. The activate button is above the F2 and F3 keys. You may want to recheck your dads. I have an aspire one 250 us edition.