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Ubuntu 10.10 Multitouch Support Demo

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the isn't-that-pretty dept.

Timothy found a news report and a little video demonstrating the multi-touch capabilities of Ubuntu. It's attached below if you're curious what the new Unity Netbook UI is looking like these days.

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  1. What multi-touch? by InsaneProcessor · · Score: 5, Informative

    I saw no real multi-touch features demonstrated in the video. He just moved the window around with more that one finger. I can do that on any touch screen.

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    1. Re:What multi-touch? by natehoy · · Score: 3, Informative

      There were several multi-touch gestures, but it would have been nice to have him move his hand a little more slowly and make it more obvious which finger(s) were on the screen at any time. For example, he appeared to call up the desktop split view by using two fingers, and tapping all five fingers of one hand on the screen seemed to call up a tasklist or somesuch.

      As the article itself stated, the multi-touch gesture library is very limited at the moment in 10.10, but 11.04 should expand that library considerably.

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