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Wait, you want to *encourage* people to put their tablets face-down? In the
absence of some kind of protective cover, that is disastrous!

On 31 March 2012 01:17, Henri Sundelin <henri.sundelin@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Yes, I agree on that, it is much easier to imagine such gestures with the
> phone. Nokia's only current Linux phone, the N9 does that silencing stuff
> as well.
>
> For tablet, for example switching virtual screen by tapping the tablet
> sides is kinda fun. I could also imagine if I'd but it face down on a table
> it could go to sleep.
>
> Thing I'm most concerned is the rude fact that this _must be fixed in the
> kernel, current situation is that you have to do device detection in user
> space, and attach to wildly different api:s. The nice ones have human
> readable stuff over sysfs, others are binary..... So this has to be
> rationalized.
>
> Other fact is that "phone people" are the ones with the dough, at least
> for the moment. That might create some pull.
>
> //HS
>
>
>
> On 30 Mar 2012, at 22:34, Ian Santopietro wrote:
>
> > Some of this would be arguably more useful on Ubuntu Phone; some
> > Android phones have the option to silence the audio when they're put
> > down face down (I know HTC do, and I remember having a Motorola that
> > did as well).
> >
> > There's a got lot of potential for these too, like muting the ringer
> > while it's sounding if you nudge the phone. Activating the camera
> > flash when shaken at the lock screen to act as a flashlight. That sort
> > of thing. But a lot of these have more use on a phone rather than a
> > tablet. I'm not saying they couldn't still function normally on a
> > tablet, it's just I don't see it ringing often, if you know what I
> > mean.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:04, Henri Sundelin <henri.sundelin@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> You might know the iPad has "shake-to-undo" gesture. I've been thinking
> that we should be able do at least similar, maybe lots better!
> >>
> >> We could have many kinds of gestures based on movement & position:
> >> - shaking
> >> - pick device up
> >> - putting it down
> >> - putting it down face down
> >> - nudging from sides
> >> - and lots more..
> >>
> >> I think this might have a good potential on enhancing the user
> experience, if it would be properly integrated to Unity etc.
> >>
> >> I did some quick checking, there is some academic research on the
> subject, and I believe this could catch on quickly if done properly and
> generally enough. I thing the research activities could be a good starting
> point to generalize the API and have a good library, maybe someway related
> to uTouch stuff.
> >>
> >> There is however a big technical challenge on Linux kernel side. There
> is none whatsoever standardized interface to
> accelerometers/gyros/magnetometers etc. All the drivers are all around the
> kernel, some in hwmon stuff, some in someplace else. It probably needs a
> new input device -like category. This means lots of work, but IMHO it has
> to be done in any case sooner or later.
> >>
> >> This topic is kinda multi-disciplinary - at least tablets & other
> mobile devices (Ubuntu phone, anyone?). Maybe table/mobile side could be a
> driver for this kind of activity. But please forward to who/wherever this
> may concern!
> >>
> >> //HS
> >>
> >>
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