Ubuntu Wiki

• 2011-02-24 - GEIS 2.0, XInput 2.1 (Xorg MT), Qt4 Touch Support, and Ginn (gestures for legacy apps) landed in Natty!

• 2011-02-21 - GEIS v2.0 C Bindings Released

• 2010-12-01 - New GEIS v2.0 C Bindings posted

• 2010-11-23 - uTouch Architecture for Natty

• 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

• 2010-08-16 - Gestures with multitouch in Ubuntu 10.10

• 2010-08-16 - Multitouch in Maverick

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:

• https://launchpad.net/canonical-multitouch

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

• https://launchpad.net/~utouch-team/+archive/utouch

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

• http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfkkjjcj_1482g457bcc7

Joining the Community

• Join our live webchat channel on IRC at #ubuntu-touch

• Ask your questions about multitouch in Ubuntu

• Check the growing Ubuntu Multitouch FAQ

• Ubuntuforums.org posts tagged with "multitouch"

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

• History - Work done in previous versions of Ubuntu

• 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