I got your point and I agree with you now :-) but I think we should take a look on it later and define default gestures for the main applications.
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Harald Sitter <apachelog...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > 2011/5/17 Rodrigo Belém <rclbe...@gmail.com>: >> Would't it work on touchscreen devices, which are evdev too? > > Sure it would, however I do not think the usage paradigm makes much > sense. At any rate we'd need to be careful with what we do by > default.... > On a touchscreen you are suggested to interact with things as they are > presented. So you have a window, if you want to drag the window you > press on the window's occupied space, hold and move. Having a gesture > that goes like "swipe two fingers from left to right to switch track > in amarok" does not necessarily match up to what you would expect it > to do as there is no visual connection between what you do and what > you do it on (i.e. plasma or a currently focused window). > > For touchpads this is a no-brainer as the touchpad itself is not > directly linked to the screen space, or what you see there (e.g. by > default you will not have a 1:1 mapping between screen space and > world/touchpad space, meaning you might need to move >1 one times from > top of your touchpad to bottom to get from top most point to bottom > most point of the screen space). > > So, what I am saying is not that it does not work, but we should be > verrryyyy careful about what we do by default on a touchscreen setup. > In my opinion gestures only make sense on an application level for > touchscreens. Like in marble you might want to have pinch-to-zoom, if > you had the same gestures defined for touchegg, but doing something > entirely different that would cause problems. Additionally if the > touch interactions are not global but scoped to a widget/element > within an application it maps perfectly with the whole usage paradigm > of touchscreens with having a 1:1 mapping from world space to > (visible) screen space. > > I hope this was somewhat understandable, I fear I might have been > thinking faster than I was writing ^^ > > regards, > Harald > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > kubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > -- kubuntu-devel mailing list kubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
