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[Ping Cheng <pinglinux@xxxxxxxxx>]

I hear you, loud and clear :). Thank you.

Ping

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Mark Shuttleworth
<mark.shuttleworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  On 05/10/10 19:13, Ping Cheng wrote:
>> Peter said: "With the new approach the recognition happens purely
>> client-side and is done by a library or a daemon. This allows for
>> multiple different gesture recognisers be active at the same time, a
>> scenario that is quite likely to happen (I do envision GTK, Qt,
>> Mozilla, etc. all wanting their own system). Whether that's a good
>> thing for the UI is another matter, consistency for gestures is
>> important and especially Ping Cheng was not happy at the prospect of
>> having multiple, possibly inconsistent, systems. We need to find some
>> common ground here between desktop environments and toolkits."
>
> This smacks of the old X inability to make a decision and commit to a
> direction. We can be very clear about this: Ubuntu won't support
> multiple simultaneous competing gesture engines. We're already in
> conversations with Qt et al to ensure they can work with utouch, and
> we'll enhance the interface to allow apps to leyer their own
> interpretation on the raw data. But there will be a single gesture
> engine, and it will see the data before anything else does.
>
> Mark