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[James Carrington <james.carrington@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The comment below is exactly what I was trying to express.  There are deep, domain specific applications (CAD, photo/video editing, etc.) that simply must be able to have their own “language”.  Or they’ll just stay over on Windows where they can have that.

Cheers
James
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From: Mark Shuttleworth [mailto:mark@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 1:14 PM
To: Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar
Cc: James Carrington; multi-touch-dev
Subject: Re: [Multi-touch-dev] Peter Hutterer's thoughts on MT in X


That's true, and it's the direction we're going in. But I think the point about specialist apps is deeper, and we'll need to support it. We provide a mechanism whereby the user can say to the system "don't try to guess what I'm saying in this window here, I'm using a different language".