Do you also have problems with the Confluence skin?
Currently there is a beta test going on for Kodi v17 which includes both a new OSMC skin and also a Kodi skin especially designed for touch screens called eTouchy.
You can participate in the beta trial by following the instructions in this thread:
You should have a better experience on the touch optimised skin. It is hoped that this will launch as the default stable version (with kodi v17) in the first few months of 2017.