Multitouch
2010-11-07 - Canonical and Codethink at Bostom GNOME Summit
2010-10-19 - Probabilistic Input for uTouch?
2010-10-16 - Multitouch and Qt
2010-10-13 - Ubuntu 10.10 Multi-touch Video
2010-10-07 - Multi-touch at UDS-N in Orlando, October 25th-29th
2010-09-21 - The Growing Linux Multi-touch Community
2010-09-02 - HCI at Canonical
2010-08-16 - Multi-touch Support Lands in Maverick (Canonical Blog)
2010-08-16 - Gestures with multitouch in Ubuntu 10.10 (Mark Shuttleworth)
2010-08-16 - Multitouch in Maverick (mail list announcement)
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
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:
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.
Current Work - What's happening this cycle
History - Work done in previous versions of Ubuntu
Additional Resources - Information on research, Ubuntu brainstorming, and other related material
Definitions
Multitouch/Definitions - A glossary of terms we use when discussing uTouch technology, both at the user-experience and engineering levels
Multitouch - Wikipedia entry