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[Markus Burrer <mb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think, it's more "natural" to swipe with the thumb because normally
you hold the tablet with both hands, thumbs on top. You just need to
move your thumb to launch or switch apps. Thats what I don't like at
Android. You need a lot of actions to switch between apps.

With the  four finger tap you need to let loose the tablet with one hand
to make the gesture or the tap. With the "left thumb swipe" you don't.
I'm holding my tablet right now and try the four finger gesture and it
feels uncomfortable. Or is there a "swipe with the thumb patent"
somewhere so you can't use it?

Also the screen keyboard should have a "thumb mode" like the MultiLing
Keyboard from Android because even on a 7 inch Tablet with big hands
like mine it is uncomfortable to type with the standard Android keyboard.

http://macoymejia.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/wpid-cap201107121734.jpg?w=549
http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/ab307/mobilesat/android/ThumbKeyboard.jpg

With the "left thumb reveal" and a thumb keyboard you can launch
applications from the launcher or switch between them without the need
to let loose the tablet. You also can open the Dash and type to search
with both hands on the device. Especially with bigger and heavier
devices (10 inch Atom Tablets) this would be an important convenience

Hope you understand what I mean, my english is worst

Markus


Am 30.01.2012 09:51, schrieb Mitchell Reese:
> A lot of this is already implemented in the multi-touch gesture stack
> built on top of Ubuntu. I.e., a four finger tap opens the dash, while
> a four finger swipe unhides the launcher (or dock, depending on what
> you call it), etc. From what I've read, it shouldn't be too hard to
> remap these if your preferences are different. The main thing we need
> is a multitouch device we can actually /install/ Ubuntu on natively
> that supports multitouch at this level.
>
> Plasma Active looks really interesting, as does the Mali graphics
> core. I'm interested to see where it goes. For myself, I love the 7
> inch tablet form factor.
>
> On 30/01/12 19:19, Markus Burrer wrote:
>> I think, the easiest way to reveal the launcher on a tablet would be a
>> gesture like at the dolphin browser for Android to open the bookmarks.
>>
>> Just wipe right from the left border. The launcher should stay open.
>> Wipe left to hide. Wipe up and down to scroll and tap to open the Dash
>> or run an application.
>>
>> Markus
>>
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