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[John Lea <john.lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I have just published version 0.2 of the Unity Gesture UI Guidelines; it 
is available at http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfkkjjcj_1482g457bcc7 .
There are a lot of changes so it is worth having a quick read through, 
but the most potentially confusing modifications are to do with 
terminology.  The interaction levels are now named Objective, 
Application, Screen and Unity.  The term 'Chain Gestures' has also been 
replaced with 'Compound Gestures' which hopefully better signifies that 
the component gestures can be ordered both sequentially and in 
parallel.  I understand that it is a pain to change terminology after we 
have started using it in our day to day work, but if we are going to 
make terminology changes the best time to do it is now while we are 
still early in the development process.  From this point onwards we will 
try to avoid making further changes to already defined terminology.
cheers,
John

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