Gestures With Multitouch In Ubuntu 10.10

jitendraharlalka writes "Mark Shuttleworth recently announced on his blog that the first cut of Canonical's UTouch framework is ready and will be available in Ubuntu Maverick. He goes on to talk about the development of 'touch language' by the design team. The 'touch language' will allow the chaining of basic gestures to create complex gestures. The approach is quite different from the single magic gestures implemented elsewhere. In Maverick, a few Gtk applications will support gesture-based scrolling."

Re:Hardware support is still weak

[Ethanol-fueled]

Speaking of drivers, I bought an HP printer with claims to support only Mac and Windows. Lo and behold, turns out there is a 'NIX driver, HPLIP, [wikipedia.org] that is very similar to typical Windows drivers in that it is a unified center of settings and even shows the HP logo in Ubuntu's taskbar.

Familiar-feeling stuff like that goes a long way toward spreading desktop Linux adoption. Yet, for some reason, they don't simply add it to their standard driver CD.

Re:Hardware support is still weak

[JohnFluxx]

> My dad didn't need a SINGLE DRIVER, those that Windows 7 HP didn't have it got from windows Update at first boot,

Yay, anecdotal evidence! There are plenty of people for whom Ubuntu installs perfectly too. That is why you are being a troll.

I've always had problems installing Windows - I think I'm unlucky.

I recently bought a usb WIFI device from Japan to get on the internet. Windows did not have the drivers and the drivers that came with it only worked on the Japanese version of windows. I had to spend several days doing registry hacks to force it to install.

On Linux I plugged it in and it worked.

Re:Good job Mark, you've overcomplicated it ...

[ToasterMonkey]

You are clearly of the "Apple" school of thinking where "Simple" means "Remove functionality". Most of the world doesn't work like this, making something "simple" means "a series of easy to follow steps in a logical order" or simply not requiring specialist knowledge.

To do this, you'll eventually end up hiding functionality, and be accused of doing the same thing Apple does for the exact same reasons...
You should think long and hard what "simple" is in the real world instead of the anti-Apple echo chamber where somehow they successfully sell devices that do nothing, easily.
    EX: a car - how much functionality is lost in an automatic vs. manual?

Re:Hardware support is still weak

[kiddygrinder]

that's absolute bullshit, my current new windows install has about 4 missing drivers till i bother tracking down my motherboard disc, EVERY SINGLE REQUIRED DRIVER downloaded from the ubuntu repo for my dual boot linux partition and on all 3 linux installs in my house. the only thing that is stopping me from running ubuntu only with no issues is native versions of blizzard and valve games.