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["Stephen M. Webb" <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The use of 3- and 4-touch gestures in Unity is fundamental to its
design.  Window management and application management gestures are
reserved to the window/application manager.  If an application design
has been chosen such that it does not work with the Unity, then the
application designers have purposefully chosen to provide a second-rate
user experience under Unity.

Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion.

** Changed in: unity
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/898853

Title:
  Touch: Unity hijacks multitouch gestures

Status in Unity:
  Won't Fix
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  It seems that unity hijacks multitouch input, this renders 3rd party
  multitouch apps useless.

  Steps to reproduce:
  ----------------------------

      1 Install touchegg by "sudo apt-get install touchegg"
      2 Start touchegg in terminal
      3 Try out some multi-touch gestures and notice only upto 2 finger touch are recognized
      4 Now either use metacity, gnome-shell or compiz (with unity plugin disabled) as your window manager
      5 Repeat 2, 3 and notice all gestures defined in ~/.config/touchegg/touchegg.conf work fine.

  I think the best solution here is to remove multi-touch capabilities
  from unity and put them in a separate compiz plugin like drag handles
  is now. This would allow easy customization of gestures and the plugin
  can be turned off so 3rd party apps can take control.

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