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[Markus Burrer <mb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have an 7 inch tablet with Android 2.3. I use the thumb keyboard in
landscape mode, which is good to use. If you have a 10 inch tablet in
portrait you have nearly the same width than I have with the 7 inch in
landscape, so a thumb keyboard would probably be useful for larger
tablets, even in portrait. I sadly have no 10 inch tablet to get some
experience.


Am 30.01.2012 15:36, schrieb Ian Santopietro:
>
> 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
> <mailto: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.
>
>     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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