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" <m...@embedit.de> 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 > > > > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet > Post to : ubuntu-tablet@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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