Excellent article, and a sugestion [LWN.net]

Excellent article, and a sugestion

Posted Mar 8, 2012 7:58 UTC (Thu) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)
In reply to: Excellent article, and a sugestion by daniels
Parent article: The life story of the XInput multitouch extension

daniels wrote:
> The problem is that this would preclude any global gestures from taking place anywhere inside your keypad at all, which would be really jarring.

Daniel, sorry for the really stupid question (never used multi-touch) but what is an example of a global gesture in a touch screen/multi-application context?

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Excellent article, and a sugestion

Posted Mar 8, 2012 9:22 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link]

The most obvious example I can think of is using three or four-finger swipes to switch workspace, or bring up the app/window overview.