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Gestures With Multitouch In Ubuntu 10.10

Posted by Soulskill on from the touchy-feely dept.

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."

2 of 185 comments (clear)

  1. One gesture by dasdumper · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Minigames! by VortexCortex · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.