Re: implementing touchpad gestures under gnome.

[Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>]

Vincent,

I have absolutely no idea who you could talk to about implementing
something like this. Sounds like it would require support at multiple
levels (application level for forward/redo/back/undo), GTK+ level for
some things and window manager level.

I've CC'ed this email to the desktop-devel-list, hopefully you can share
your ideas there and work out who you need to talk to.

--d

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 09:59 +0100, Vincent Borrel wrote:

> I've been recently considering new touchpad gestures (a la macos-X, 
> scrolling inside windows using two fingers on the pad), and defined 10 
> standard gestures (zoom in, zoom out, rotate left, rotate right, scroll 
> content, move entire window, forward/redo, back/undo, value up, value 
> down) using two fingers and the touchpad. Using the hardware input from 
> touchpads on linux powered notebooks, it could be 
> implemented/standardized under gnome. This would be the first UI to 
> feature these intuitive and powerful user interaction methods. I can't 
> imagine using GIMP with such gestures :).

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