Full Touchscreen/Pen Support on PC builds of Obsidian?

[Ruq]

Use case or problem

I have a Dell Inspiron 7306 (2-in-1), that comes with both a touchscreen and dockable pen. I run Arch Linux (btw, sorry I had to) on it and Obsidian works just fine in the traditional keyboard and trackpad mode.

When using the touchscreen, touchscreen-style scrolling works, but that’s about the end of touchscreen support so far as I can tell.

On mobile, you can, for example, pinch to zoom on the graph view. On PC no such functionality exists. And, like the related feature link I embedded, I don’t believe you can touch-drag resize panes either.

Also, this is probably an electron issue in general, since discord/vivaldi does this too, but I cannot touch-drag/resize the window on Linux. I use Wayland with GNOME 4x, so I do have really great native touch-support. Other windows that are not Electron work just fine for touch-drag.

Proposed solution

Improve/add touchscreen support where possible. The electron window dragging bit might be out of your reach and I completely understand that.

Current workaround (optional)

Just use obsidian in the traditional laptop mode. Works like a breeze, love it.

Again, scrolling works on touch screen just fine.

Related feature requests (optional)

Unable to adjust a pane's size with a pen( of Surface Pro)

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Thank you.

[carterjoshua603]

The biggest blockers for me on touch devices are:

• Ability to resize panels
• Ability to drag tabs

It would be great to see this enabled.

[trunestor]

on windows 11 you can only drag, the pinch to zoom is broken

[Kepler-69c]

More than two years after this discussion began, are there any updates on touchscreen support? Is it even being considered?

Drag and drop still does not work on Linux (Gnome 46 + Wayland), and pinch to zoom and resize panels does not work on either Linux or Windows (11).

[hoodyE]

This post is from two years ago, but we haven’t seen any plans for improvement.

Given the growing demand for touch-friendly applications and tablets Windows like MS Surface, Lenovo IdeaPad, Minisforum V3, Chuwui, etc. It would be great to know if there are any plans to enhance this aspect of Obsidian. Many users, including myself, would appreciate a more seamless experience on touch devices.

Thanks!