I hear you, loud and clear :). Thank you. Ping
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark.shuttlewo...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 05/10/10 19:13, Ping Cheng wrote: >> Peter said: "With the new approach the recognition happens purely >> client-side and is done by a library or a daemon. This allows for >> multiple different gesture recognisers be active at the same time, a >> scenario that is quite likely to happen (I do envision GTK, Qt, >> Mozilla, etc. all wanting their own system). Whether that's a good >> thing for the UI is another matter, consistency for gestures is >> important and especially Ping Cheng was not happy at the prospect of >> having multiple, possibly inconsistent, systems. We need to find some >> common ground here between desktop environments and toolkits." > > This smacks of the old X inability to make a decision and commit to a > direction. We can be very clear about this: Ubuntu won't support > multiple simultaneous competing gesture engines. We're already in > conversations with Qt et al to ensure they can work with utouch, and > we'll enhance the interface to allow apps to leyer their own > interpretation on the raw data. But there will be a single gesture > engine, and it will see the data before anything else does. > > Mark _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev Post to : multi-touch-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
