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    Ubuntu finally getting multitouch

    The next version of Ubuntu will get multitouch interface abilities
    http://aatechno.blogspot.com/2010/08...+Technology%29
    Last edited by aysiu; August 17th, 2010 at 05:49 PM. Reason: Changed short link to long one
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    Re: Ubuntu finally getting multitouch

    Firefox 4 too, but only for Windows 7 so far. I don't know when is going to be available for Linux.

    See the video at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4.0b3/whatsnew/

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    Ah, very good.

    Although I do have one comment to the OP, why the short link? Short links are useful in services such as Twitter which thinks it adds value by limiting you to 140 characters, or IRC where you wouldn't want to spam the whole place with a link that's 4 lines long, but in a forum like this? Even if the link was too long VBulletin would simply not show the entire link in the actual post. (Sorry, I just think shot links are in general, bad, unless their really needed).
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    Re: Ubuntu finally getting multitouch

    Quote Originally Posted by LeifAndersen View Post
    Ah, very good.

    Although I do have one comment to the OP, why the short link? Short links are useful in services such as Twitter which thinks it adds value by limiting you to 140 characters, or IRC where you wouldn't want to spam the whole place with a link that's 4 lines long, but in a forum like this? Even if the link was too long VBulletin would simply not show the entire link in the actual post. (Sorry, I just think shot links are in general, bad, unless their really needed).
    there's also the url tags where you can hyperlink text to a url.

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    Re: Ubuntu finally getting multitouch

    Quote Originally Posted by LeifAndersen View Post
    Ah, very good.

    Although I do have one comment to the OP, why the short link? Short links are useful in services such as Twitter which thinks it adds value by limiting you to 140 characters, or IRC where you wouldn't want to spam the whole place with a link that's 4 lines long, but in a forum like this? Even if the link was too long VBulletin would simply not show the entire link in the actual post. (Sorry, I just think shot links are in general, bad, unless their really needed).
    I use short links here to post images from picasa, because for some reason the forum censoring system replaces part of some URLs with asterisks. Probably not the case here, but I just wanted to show a valid example of it's usefulness here in the forums.

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    Re: Ubuntu finally getting multitouch

    Cool, but I've seen multitouch videos for years. Hmmmm....
    Quote Originally Posted by lovinglinux View Post
    Firefox 4 too, but only for Windows 7 so far. I don't know when is going to be available for Linux.

    See the video at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4.0b3/whatsnew/
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    Re: Ubuntu finally getting multitouch

    Quote Originally Posted by Dustin2128 View Post
    Cool, but I've seen multitouch videos for years. Hmmmm....
    Lots of those involve experimental multitouch systems thrown onto Linux. The difference here is it's aiming to be a standard, well supported, top-to-bottom solution to last and coexist on the desktop. It distinctly isn't a tech demo.

    When I first read someone was doing multitouch (I forget where…), I wasn't expecting much. I was pleasantly surprised to see how much is going on, and now super excited :)
    Last edited by Mr. Picklesworth; August 17th, 2010 at 05:59 PM.

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    Re: Ubuntu finally getting multitouch

    Nice. Its about time.

    Its because they are using the new kernel.

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    Re: Ubuntu finally getting multitouch

    YAY!!!

    I have an HP-Tx2-1275dx, and I'm hoping for some more functionality.

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    Re: Ubuntu finally getting multitouch

    This isn't just for touchscreen devices, but it can also be used for my laptop's touchpad too, right? Like in OSX you can use two fingers on the touchpad and scroll. Will this be a standard option in Ubuntu within the next year?
    Also, is this going to be integrated in both GNOME and KDE within Ubuntu?
    Is this going to soon be an option in all major Distros? Like Debian, Red Hat, Mandriva, OpenSuse, Fedora, etc, etc?
    Will this be more of a standard through KDE/GNOME or the Kernal or is it going to be purely something extra that the distro puts in?

    All I really care about is that I can use my touchpad on my laptop to do things like you can in OSX, because I really like that feature... But this is really cool if it can be well supported, and works... I'm kind of excited.

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