Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
écran équipé d’une dalle tactile
English translation:
touchscreen
French term
d’un écran, intégré ou non au PC, équipé d’une dalle tactile,
d’un écran, intégré ou non au PC, équipé d’une dalle tactile,
Sep 4, 2008 09:22: Philippe Etienne Created KOG entry
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Proposed translations
Spain
In the reader's shoes since 2000
Native in: French (Variant: Standard-France) 
Works in: English to French
with stand-alone or built-in touchscreen
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B D Finch
: Neat, though I'm not sure about "touchscreen" as one word.
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Ta BD, me neither actually, but adds to the concise-ness (errr)
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kashew
: touchscreen or touch panel OK!
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pad sounds smallish to me (keypad), I understand dalle as sthg flat and thin like a ...flat screen
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Anthony Lines (X)
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swisstell
: elegant solution
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Angela Dickson (X)
: kashew: what about this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYef50b4TgY
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Native in: French (Variants: Standard-France, African)
Works in: English to French, French to English, French
a screen, integrated to the PC or not, with a touchpad
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Angela Dickson (X)
: 'integrated to' is not English, and it's likely to be a touchscreen rather than a touchpad (which is usually found on a laptop)
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You are right for integrated to.
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kashew
: I'm wrong! Sorry!
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Merci Kashew!//No Problem, you are right now! Thanks!
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Andrew Levine
: not a touchpad at all.
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Merci Andrew!
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Native in: English
Works in: French to English, English
a touchscreen, which may or may not be integrated into the PC
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Note added at 8 mins (2008-08-19 15:01:37 GMT)
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the more literal translation would be "a screen... equipped with a touchscreen panel," but I find the repetition of "screen" redundant.
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Note added at 11 mins (2008-08-19 15:05:10 GMT)
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Note that even though the phrase allows for the screen to be either separate from or integrated into the PC, it does say that the screen is definitely equipped with a "dalle tactile".
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kashew
: I agree with your last line! It's not "écran tactile" in source
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see asker note - it is indeed a touchscreen. A "dalle tactile" is the panel of a touchscreen that receives the touch signals, not a mouse touchpad.
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Claire Chapman
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Reference comments
All things textile
Native in: English
Works in: French to English, English to French, English
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen
UNIVERSAL KEYBOARD WITH TOUCH SCREEN
(EN) The invention concerns a universal keyboard with touch screen comprising a luminous **touch-sensitive faceplate**…
(FR) L'invention porte sur un clavier à écran tactile comprenant **un écran à dalle tactile** ...
http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=2007042629
Today we look at their newest model, the B2 Stealth Bomber [a case for a computer]. Themed after it's namesake, the B2 offers unique "Stealth" styling, with aircraft style detailing in a mid-tower form factor. In-Win's newest case boasts features including a motorized **touch-sensitive faceplate**, a Turbo Cooling System, and the ability to evade radar detection.
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&tas...
Below is an example of a complete industrial flowchart submitted to a customer for the development of a product integrating a TFT display, a touch-sensitive faceplate, a 32-bit CPU card with 8 layers, a WIFI link, a WINDOWS CE or LINUX OS, a thermal transfer
printer, an ETHERNET or USB link to the outside, specific energy supply, various accessories and a design, watertight and strongly-built case.
http://www.eolane.com/images/journal/eCarnets_21_GB.pdf
Discussion
So they use "ecran tactile," and that's the only place it appears, so I think the original tech writer was a little overzealous with their description, because, as I understand it, it's not a touchpad, but a touch screen.
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions.