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You cant figure out how those kinds of requirements might influence or curtail development in the non touch parts of the system?

We saw the same thing happen with mobile first on websites.

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The introduction of the mouse led to developers paying less attention to keyboard shortcuts and function keys, but I don’t see anyone seriously saying computers should not have mice.

Or for that matter, that adding support for game controllers (something that has actually happened with Linux desktops) would led to curtailed development of non-controller parts.

> The introduction of the mouse led to developers paying less attention to keyboard shortcuts and function keys, but I don’t see anyone seriously saying computers should not have mice.

Well, a lot of devs did move back to the terminal ;)

I encourage it! I think having to deal with switching between mouse and keyboard actually accentuates why the terminal is nice as an interface so often. If it does nothing more than make someone building a terminal app think just a bit harder about where to be intentional about user workflows so that a mouse is not even required then it may even have helped keyboard-only uses.

Have you found some kind of performance or other detriment of the mere support of touch screens or is this just theoretical?

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