I don’t think that special GUI for tablet is required, desktop GUI is fine. Smartphone-like GUI make tablet like big smartphone and pretty useless. Windows 8+ is quite usable on tablet PC. I used Haiku on Acer W500 tablet some time ago, I created screen keyboard and multi-touch patches for it (https://github.com/X547/HaikuUtils/tree/master/ScreenKeyboard, https://dev.haiku-os.org/attachment/ticket/8370/keyboard.jpeg). Some parts of this keyboard is written with itself on tablet. Unfortunately touch sensor is broken and that tablet is not usable as tablet anymore, connecting mouse is required. It is pretty old now so I currently use Fujitsu arrows Tab WQ2/C1 (Computers compatible with Haiku (v3), https://www.fujitsu-webmart.com/image/ui2002/ui2002_im03_1.png, https://ascii.jp/elem/000/004/003/4003638/). In addition to touchscreen it have pen that allows mouse hover, precise positioning and handwritten note taking so paper notes are not needed anymore. Touchscreen and pen are not currently working on Haiku because Haiku have no i2c HID support yet. I plan to make touchscreen and pen working on this tablet: Using new driver API.
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