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Ask Slashdot: Where Is the Universal Gesture Navigation Set?

Posted by timothy on from the which-finger-does-what? dept.

dstates writes "As a mostly happy new iPad owner, I love having lots of apps, but I have got to ask, where is the universal set of gestures for navigation? Pinch and open mostly mean zoom out and in, but sometimes you tap to open, sometimes double tap. Sometimes right swipe is back, sometimes there is a back button, sometimes you just have to go to home and navigate back down. Reminds me of the early days of GUIs when every application had its own menu set with different top-level menus and different placement of various functions. Made life chaos for users. We have been there, done that, and gestures are much worse. At least with a menu, you had a printed tag you could read. Gestures are all magic handshakes until you know them. Seems like the tablet community should not have to learn the value of consistency all over again." What gestures would you like to see made standard in touch-based interfaces?

8 of 177 comments (clear)

  1. single finger solute by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    i want to be able to flick off my tablet and have it grant root access to me. or at least make me a sandwich.

  2. Same problem with the missus... by Aphrika · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sometimes I poke her and get a giggle. Other times, a slap.

    1. Re:Same problem with the missus... by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 5, Funny

      And if you poke her too hard... *pssssshhhhhhh*

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      "I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)

  3. That's easy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just right click!

  4. Too gay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    As a mostly happy new iPad owner, I love having lots of apps

    Too gay; didn't read

  5. Srsly? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    My two year old niece figured it out fine, dude. I'll see if I can't get her to explain it all to you.

  6. Re:Isn't the problem patents? by The+End+Of+Days · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, the only problems they seem to cause is that they make it harder for people to just rip something off and give it away when somebody else did the hard work of creating it already - which is actually the exact reason we have patents in the first place.

  7. Re:You insensitive clod! by oliverthered · · Score: 4, Funny

    dictionary says that both spined and spineless animals have them.

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    thank God the internet isn't a human right.