Gestures With Multitouch In Ubuntu 10.10

jitendraharlalka writes "Mark Shuttleworth recently announced on his blog that the first cut of Canonical's UTouch framework is ready and will be available in Ubuntu Maverick. He goes on to talk about the development of 'touch language' by the design team. The 'touch language' will allow the chaining of basic gestures to create complex gestures. The approach is quite different from the single magic gestures implemented elsewhere. In Maverick, a few Gtk applications will support gesture-based scrolling."

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Re:It's just a toy

[acidrainx]

Well at least you'll be getting some exercise to help combat the onslaught of Cheetos-related heart disease.

Re:Hardware support is still weak

[hairyfeet]

You want specifics? Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it...Out of the 4 machines I set up, here is what was broken either on first install or broken upon update, ready? ATI Nvidia GPUs, Realtek sound (1 AC97 the other the new HD) 1 Realtek and 2 SiS networking slots, and the Broadcom, which is the most popular by far on laptops? Never did get that fucking thing to work right. Oh and the Sigma sound took nearly 2 days worth of after hours bullshit to get working, only to be completely FUBARed when it updated. Yeah, thanks Ubuntu. Linux for humans my ass.

As for "Embrace the power of CLI"? I can't remember which forum I got THAT brilliant piece of advice from, but here is something similar. And I quote ""CLI is frankly too strange and complex to the users Linux must attract in order to gain market share." What do you call using Start, Run in the windows environment? This premise the Linux need to be dumb down to get expansion is unfounded. Prior to the Windows GUI we had Dos and a lot of non Techie types ( like myself) found their way. A GUI makes things easy no disagreement here but lets stop with the dumbing down effect. It was this dumbing down effect that lead to virus and spyware that has infested the windows world. Please we need to be creating smarter users not more Techies "

Now do you know what a NORMAL person, one that doesn't find spending all day staring at a terminal "fun" is gonna say to that bullshit? "How much is Windows Home again?". Look don't blame me if your community is bound and determined to keep Linux at last place, I have NO control over you people. I was asked to write an article about what it would take to get Linux out of last place, and I did only to get the same BS responses we have been seeing from the Linux community for the last DECADE.

So if it is all just a troll, oh wise one, answer me these questions: Why will NO retailer in USA touch your product with a 100 foot pole huh? They could make more profit without the MSFT tax, I personally pay on average $100 more per PC simply in fees. so why won't we touch your product? Why are you in DEAD LAST, hell even Win2K which is EOL is beating you, on the desktop, even when you give it away? Why? Give you a hint, it is NOT a "massive conspiracy" involving money trucks from Redmond. It is because your user experience sucks ass, that's why! God forbid you making ANYTHING easy for the user, oh fuck no! God forbid there should be simple fucking GUIs or a stable ABI so every update don't make the thing fall down like a house of cards!

But don't worry, after seeing all the complete delusional behavior, the total denial of the situation, and the venomous hatred spewed towards anyone whose says there is a problem (notice that even though I have been nothing but honest EVERY post in this thread is automatically modded down? Gotta love that Linux groupthink!) I have decided to simply avoid your product like an STD and have blocked the Linux section from my RSS. You can stay here and go "Gee isn't Linux swell, and Ubuntu is the bestest!" all day long, and pat yourself on the back for the 400th text editor, meanwhile the rest of the planet will ignore you like the Amiga guys. It has been 15 YEARS and you are STILL DEAD LAST. Wake the fuck up and find out what you need to do to sell your product!!!!!