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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."

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  1. Re:Hardware support is still weak by Yvan256 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Where I can buy a USB pad currently to add multi-touch support for a Windows desktop?

    http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/

    They mention "for your Mac" but a quick search shows that Apple has Windows drivers available.

  2. Were can I buy... by Just_Say_Duhhh · · Score: 3, Informative

    where I can buy a USB pad currently to add multi-touch support for a Windows desktop. Thanks

    From Wacom. I have one of these, and use it on a Windows system. I haven't plugged it into my Lucid system...yet.

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    1. Re:Were can I buy... by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 2, Informative

      From Wacom. I have one of these, and use it on a Windows system. I haven't plugged it into my Lucid system...yet

      We have a Bamboo One and a Bamboo Fun on two of our Ubuntu systems, and they work fine. In fact, they worked straight out of the box in Jaunty, without any need for extra drivers etc.

      To take advantage of stylus pressure etc., the application must be aware of the stylus, and the pressure/tilt features must be enabled inside the application. Both Gimp and Inkscape support various features, including assigning different tools to each end of the two-ended stylus.

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  3. Re:It's just a toy by xianthax · · Score: 1, Informative

    clearly you've never used swype

  4. I thought HP made a multitouch ALL-IN-ONE by Alanonfire · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe it was right around $1000, looked ridiculously like an iMAC and ran Win 7. I remember touching it at the store and being like "wow, now if this was only useful...."

  5. Ubuntu is the Windows me of the Linux world by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 0, Informative

    "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"

    You can't show me ANY OS that meets that criteria. Windows certainly doesn't, but Mandriva Linux comes closest. It certainly supports all your hardware and when you plug a new device in it helpfully offers to grab the driver and support software and install it. It takes longer to install Windows than Mandriva, and when you are done installing Windows your job has just begun, since you still don't have any useful applications installed. With Mandriva I follow a few simple prompts and when I am done pretty much every application I could want is already installed, and it is easy as point and click to put anything else I might want on it. Seriously, the 1990s called and they want their Anti-Linux troll back.

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  6. Re:Hardware support is still weak by Stormwatch · · Score: 2, Informative

    plenty of Macs run Windows.

    Plenty of PCs runs Mac OS X too... it just takes a lil' hack.

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  7. Re:Hardware support is still weak by Minwee · · Score: 3, Informative

    Then I want some of whatever he is smoking.

  8. Re:Hardware support is still weak by westlake · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

    True story.

    Not long back I tried the Ubuntu Windows Installer

    The installer appeared to hang on an indecipherable hard drive error. It could not be closed or canceled short of killing the process in Task Manager.

    The Ubuntu site and forums were no help - so on to Google.

    A half hour or so later I found a solution. It seems that the installer treats any internal or external, occupied or unoccupied, flash card slot as a hard drive.

    The work around is to click "Cancel" as often as necessary to get the job done.

    65 clicks later I began to see daylight.

    25 clicks later I had 32 bit Unbuntu dual-booting with 64 bit Windows 7.

    It did not make a good first impression.

  9. Re:Hardware support is still weak by ToasterMonkey · · Score: 2, Informative

    Speaking of drivers, I bought an HP printer with claims to support only Mac and Windows. Lo and behold, turns out there is a 'NIX driver,

    Call HP and ask them why it's not printing with the highest DPI setting (even if it is.. humor me). Then you'll learn the meaning of support.