ubuntu-tablet team mailing list archive

[Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx>]

A quick note on the thumb keyboard. It's an awesome idea, but on a
widescreen (16:9/16:10) tablet, the keyboard is workable in portrait
orientation. The thumb keyboard is much more useful on the iPad, which uses
a 4:3 screen ratio, and has a much wider portrait keyboard.
On Jan 30, 2012 3:03 AM, "Markus Burrer" <mb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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