I have an 7 inch tablet with Android 2.3. I use the thumb keyboard in landscape mode, which is good to use. If you have a 10 inch tablet in portrait you have nearly the same width than I have with the 7 inch in landscape, so a thumb keyboard would probably be useful for larger tablets, even in portrait. I sadly have no 10 inch tablet to get some experience.
Am 30.01.2012 15:36, schrieb Ian Santopietro: > > 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 > <mailto: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 > <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tablet> > Post to : ubuntu-tablet@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:ubuntu-tablet@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tablet > <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-tablet> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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