There are already iPhone apps available for this across Windows/iPhone, but not Ubuntu/iPhone.
Sent from my iPod On Apr 3, 2012, at 11:40 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schins...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been invited to hold a presentation about Ubuntu 12.04LTS to the > Norwegian Unix User Group. So I started thinking about some cool things I can > do to spice things up a bit. The first question that popped into my mind, was > "how can I use my phone as a touchpad over bluetooth?" Because that would > enable me to walk around a little more freely and not have to stand still in > front of the laptop like a statue. > > I couldn't find any existing solution for it. And that was somewhat > surprising to me. After all, mostly all modern phones are touch devices. It > shouldn't be that difficult to make a service and clients to enable the use > of a smartphone as a wireless touchpad for your PC? But it would be very > cool, and highly useful in many situations. > > I bring it here, not because it's directly relevant to Unity design, but > because it's highly relevant to the entire Ubuntu product family, as I see > it. For Ubuntu TV, the advantages of bringing your own touch capability to > the TV is obvious. Having a dedicated remote control app will be nice, but > being able to use it as a touchpad will be more useful in general. And of > course, there's no reason why such an app couldn't be expanded to do both. > Using the full screen as a touch keyboard would also be nice. Just different > pages, like the dash. In the case of IVI, enabling the entire family to > control the car stereo might yield some interesting results too... :) > > So, I figured, since it's likely that many of those who will design those > other products are paying attention to this list, I might as well bring it up > here. What do you think? > > -- > Jo-Erlend Schinstad > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
