Ok, I'll take that into consideration. Right now, I'm discussing with John Lee on how to integrate gestures into the framework, so we could definitely add such a behavior.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Great! Thanks for the info. This seems to give applications devs lots of > potential. > > Any chance of you adding "shakes" to the gestures? This would be ideal for > the "ball bearings in a tin can" style of unread email message-count. > > I was about to say "any chance of you adding shaking to the gestures?" but > after I waving my hand around like an idiot it seems to me that one's > natural movement is not to shake with the randomness I initially assumed. > Instead, if I wanted to hear quantity of messages in my inbox, I would > instinctively shake quickly right-and-returning-leftwards two to four times. > > This adds the opportunity to shake forward and back a couple of times for > number of SMS messages or for battery fullness (I like the Glasgow Uni's > idea of using a splashing sound for that). > > (Just read your subsequent posts - I'm glad to read that gestures can > easily be taught to the device. But you also ask for suggested gestures, so > I think these above would be useful. I envision them to be made quite > rapidly.) > > Stroller. > > > On 11 Aug 2008, at 17:46, Paul-Valentin Borza wrote: > > The fact that is currently undocumented is all my fault. Sorry for that - >> I'll catch up this weekend. Till then, I have to work on the release. >> >> Yes, there are 2 daemons, one that processes the gestures and sends >> signals on dbus, and a listener daemon that listens for gestures and runs >> the actions for each gesture. >> >> I'm slightly disappointed that the "shaking inbox" wouldn't be >>> accommodated by the gestures you've made available. >>> http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2007/11/shoogle_gives_your_cellphone_b.html >>> >>> ... >>> A casual search doesn't reveal how your work is supposed to integrate on >>> the device. Presumably it's a library or daemon which is intended to fulfil >>> all gesturing requests from all other apps? Will it be easy to add new >>> gestures? >>> >> >> -- http://www.borza.ro
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