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Quick Start

Impatient? Don't want to read the "Overview" or "In-Depth" below? Then read these pages Smile :-)

If you have questions, be sure to come back here and finish reading the wiki! Also, these links may help:

About

The Wiki

This resource features information about multitouch support for Ubuntu, including:

  • drivers for a range of hardware
  • a gesture processing system which does the heavy lifting of gesture analysis
  • APIs for developers who want to build gestures into their apps
  • support for gesture-based window management in Unity

uTouch Overview

The Ubuntu uTouch gesture framework includes several different components and is associated with various tools and projects:

  • kernel drivers (evdev, mtdev)
  • a display server (currently only X is supported; there are future plans for Wayland)
  • Grail - the gesture recognizer
  • GEIS - platform/distro agnostic API for gestures
  • Support in toolkits (Qt, GTK)
  • Support for legacy applications (Ginn)

See the "uTouch In-Depth" section below for more information on the projects various aspects (including current work). Architectural information is available there as well.

For the full list of projects related to uTouch, be sure to see the "Projects" section on this page:

The latest supported versions of our software is always available in our PPA:

A overview of the gesture interaction UX architecture is available at:

Joining the Community

You can also subscribe to the Ubuntu Multitouch dev mailing list

For information on getting started with uTouch, see the links below to the "Hardware Support" and "Testing" multitouch wiki pages.

uTouch In-Depth

The main Multitouch page was getting quite long, so we've split content out into dedicated pages for easier reading and reference.

  • Hardware Support

  • Testing - This covers getting started, checking your hardware (and our stack), and community-driven QA

  • Development - How to contribute and related resources

  • Current Work - What's happening this cycle, including information on the current architecture

  • History - Work done in previous versions of Ubuntu, including information on previous architectures

  • Additional Resources - Information on research, Ubuntu brainstorming, and other related material

  • News and Social Media

Definitions

  • Multitouch/Definitions - A glossary of terms we use when discussing uTouch technology, both at the user-experience and engineering levels

  • Multitouch - Wikipedia entry

Multitouch Pages

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