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Can it understand the difference between a thumb and a regular finger? Else
it's just a one finger swipe (which makes sense as well. Drag down for
notifications, drag right for launcher).

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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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