Ubuntu 10.10 Multitouch Support Demo 104
Timothy found a news report and a little video demonstrating the multi-touch capabilities of Ubuntu. It's attached below if you're curious what the new Unity Netbook UI is looking like these days.
What multi-touch? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Nifty (Score:3, Informative)
That's pretty good so far. Hopefully we can configure the icon bar on the left to hide by default the same way you can hide the task bar on any desktop.
Probably. I use Docky set to autohide, it would work fine with a touchscreen.
Speaking of the task bar, how is task switching accomplished on this thing? I may have missed it in the video. Is there a gesture that does the same thing as Alt-TAB?
If you can do the expose style view with multitouch, I don't see why you couldn't set the alt-tab style switch in compiz to use the same gesture.
My biggest concern, what happens when you want(yes, want) to use the terminal?
Same as when you want to type anything else in? Use the onscreen keyboard, or connect up an external one..
Re:Touchscreen keyboard? (Score:3, Informative)
That video had an awful lot of editing ... and some 'instant response' from the device ... almost like the commercials for iDevices & Droids on TV. It would have been nice to see a longer video with the actual response times for everything. I'm just sayin'
Yeah, definitely a lot of editing. When I run the Unity interface on my lowly netbook, it is very sluggish. Click... wait... should I click again...? wait... yes... oops, it just popped up and went away quickly... click again... wait... I didn't use it for very long before going back to my regular interface. Of course, the device in the video may be a whole lot more powerful than my netbook but I thought that the Unity interface was "optimized" for the netbook.
But I want to say that the video looks very nice. The marketing teem did a very good job putting together a very nice, short video.
Re:What multi-touch? (Score:3, Informative)
There were several multi-touch gestures, but it would have been nice to have him move his hand a little more slowly and make it more obvious which finger(s) were on the screen at any time. For example, he appeared to call up the desktop split view by using two fingers, and tapping all five fingers of one hand on the screen seemed to call up a tasklist or somesuch.
As the article itself stated, the multi-touch gesture library is very limited at the moment in 10.10, but 11.04 should expand that library considerably.
Re:Best looking dead OS I've seen (Score:3, Informative)
As soon as Lotus won't run ;-)
(Yes it's still out there, marketed under the Smartsuite label from IBM)