X gesture would be cool.
Stroller 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? > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community