Hi Peter, (re-sending email to the maillist)
On 3 December 2010 07:41, Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote: >> 1. Most MT apps really just want gestures like pinch to zoom or pan to >> scroll. > > Where is this assumption coming from? > > Whenever I get to play with an iPhone (for MT user interface > research only, of course ;), I see plenty of MT input that are not any of > these gestures. Admittedly, most of the apps I've tried lately were games, > but the assumption that "most MT apps just want gestures" is dangerous and > potentially limiting. > > AFAICT, we don't know yet, at least not on the free desktop. We don't have > the number of MT apps to even start talking of "most". Remember, technically > you can claim 2 out of 3 is "most" but 3 apps is not a useful sample. I believe apps can be split into two categories 1. multitouch-powered apps and games - and those I don't expect to use any gestures at all - from what I've seen games want to have more fine-grained control over gesture behavior so I expect them to use raw multitouch events and do what ever they want 2. traditional desktop apps - and they would be the main use-cases for gestures. From what I see on a mac the only gestures people use is pan to scroll and pinch to zoom and rotate and swipe to go back and forward. And _occasionally_ some system-wide gestures like to bring expose or to switch to another app. I believe those are the two main use-cases the api should be targeting. -- Best regards, Denis. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
