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[Sandy Martin <siegfried_m22@xxxxxxxx>]

Why not have an option for the keyboard that you can switch to either Thumb board or finger board. Thus still giving users options. 



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 From: Markus Burrer <mb@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "satchitb@xxxxxxxxx" <satchitb@xxxxxxxxx> 
Cc: ubuntu-tablet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 10:30:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-tablet] Revealing the launcer on a tablet
 

No, there is no difference. It is just about how you hold your tablet (one hand, both hands...)


Am 30.01.2012 16:27, schrieb satchitb@xxxxxxxxx: 
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).
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>On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>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:
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>>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.
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>>>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?
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>>>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
>>>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
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>>>Hope you understand what I mean, my english is worst
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>>>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. 
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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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