Multitouch

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1. News and Social Media
2. Additional Background
Community Help
Multitouch In-Depth

About

This resource features information about multi-touch 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.

The uTouch gesture framework includes several different components:

libutouch-geis - ("Gesture Engine Interface and Support") which provides a consistent platform independent interface for any system-wide input gesture recognition mechanism for toolkits and applications
libutouch-grail - ("Gesture Recognition And Instantiation Library") which handles the raw data processing and provides higher-level gesture abstractions for developers to consume * gesturetest - which helps show the streams of events and data, useful for debugging and planning

We're also exploring gesture support in legacy applications with the assistance of this project:

ginn - ("Gesture Injector: No-GEIS, No-Toolkits") a deamon with jinn-like wish-granting capabilities: it gives applications the ability to support a subset of multi-touch gestures without having to integrate uTouch-GEIS or multi-touch GTK/Qt libs

See the "Community help" and Ubuntu 10.10 specific information below for help on getting started with multitouch in Ubuntu.

You can also subscribe to the Ubuntu Multitouch dev mailing list

News and Social Media

Multitouch in Maverick - Mailing list announcement

If you want to contribute / find the latest bookmarked and popular Ubuntu multi-touch information , please use the following tags: utouch multi-touch ubuntu demo

Here are some feeds with such tags:

Additional Background

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