Re: implementing touchpad gestures under gnome.

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

Hi,

For something a little easier, here is an app I've been wanting to 
re-write/rip-off for GNOME for quite some time:

http://www.flyingmeat.com/flygesture/

The popup pushpin display is like UI butter.

-Alex


Davyd Madeley wrote:
> 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 :).