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."

Comments

One gesture

[dasdumper]

Maybe I can stop using the same gesture when my wifi card does not work.

Minigames!

[VortexCortex]

They are introducing multi-touch in 10.10 because in 11.04 the close and minimize buttons
will run around the borders of your windows and you'll need two hands to catch them.

This is much better than the current 10.04 "Memory" min-game where you try to remember which side the buttons are on.

Re:Minigames!

[VortexCortex]

Awesome! You just beat level 1.

Now you get to play Level 2 of the minigame!

It goes something like this:
"Buttons are on the left in this versi -- oh yeah I changed them back to the other side with this theme."

<spoiler>
In Level 3 you get to add another computer -- "Which computer is this with what button config?"

In Level 4 you use VNC to provide tech support. Bonus points if your frantic mouse movement causes the client motion sickness.

Boss Level: Using only your phone you explain how to get the buttons back on the right to your mother-in-law.
</spoiler>

Re:Hardware support is still weak

[Narksos]

"Show me ANY Linux where I can take a mix of totally random hardware thrown together and hand my 67 year old clueless dad the disc and have him install it PERFECTLY, without a SINGLE fuckup or hardware issue, and then we'll talk."

Show me FIRST the Windows where I can take a mix of totally random hardware thrown together and hand my 67 year old clueless dad the disc and have him install it PERFECTLY, without a SINGLE fuckup or hardware issue.

And then let said 67 year old clueless dad on the internet for 30 minutes and see if it still runs.

Sweet move, Mark!

[Rogerborg]

Hey, the RT2700 and open source Nvidia drivers are shagged sideways in 10.04 again but fuck fixing that legacy shit, right, because we can focus on adding bells and whistles for hardware that two, maybe three of the actual competent devs and testers currently own! Rock on, buddy!

Re:It's just a toy

[fishexe]

Totally useless for anything that is not chatting or emailing. Which is fine for most, but not so great when you are using ssh.

I consider ssh a type of chatting. When I use ssh, I'm just chatting with my honey...I mean computer...