Ubuntu multitouch wiki update#

If they could get this OS on $250 netbooks from Wal-Mart, maybe the general public would realize that Linux doesn't suck, and isn't hard to use. Why have them in a single distro? On my netbook I ended up hacking in the old netbook interface and it works great, but what I did is out of the reach of most people that the Ubuntu community is trying to attract. Tablet PC's have substantially more horsepower than netbooks, the two projects have completely different goals. I think at this point it might be entirely appropriate to separate the netbook distro from a tablet distro.

It's supposed to be about fast and easy performance on sub-standard hardware. Sure Unity is (or could be) slick and pretty, but the netbook remix isn't supposed to be about slick and pretty. The 10.04 netbook interface was much faster and more responsive. The dock is almost unusable because of the lag, and it launches apps slow as hell. It's supposed to be a distribution optimized for netbooks. I just bought a brand new HP Mini 210 and an Acer AO532h Both have an Atom N450, which isn't the fastest processor in the world, but Unity runs like a slideshow on both of them. I'm not talking about old netbooks, either. I will say from experience that Unity sucks a big fat one on netbooks. I'm sure I could find out the answers, but if you're going to make a promo video for 'multi-touch' show me some 'multi-touching'. Can it do pinch zoom? Two finger scrolling or one finger? Will two fingers simulate a right-click? (It's a mostly desktop OS, so unlike in iOS right clicking is probably pretty useful). He really only demonstrates two gestures, mostly he spends the whole video using a single finger to simulate a left-click on static objects. Honestly this looks nicer (at any rate more open, which is more important to me on a tablet than a phone), but I'd want to see a lot more than a couple muti-touch gestures to be sold. This means that no graphical web app can be used with Ubuntu on a touch screen.

Ubuntu multitouch wiki update#

After the update it is not, but unfortunately Chromium is not reporting touch-events. Two-finger rotate: Touch the surface with two fingers and rotate. Two-finger pinch or stretch: Touch the surface with two fingers while bringing them closer or further apart. Before the 14.04 update, the touchscreen was interpreted as another mouse. Drag: slide a finger touching the surface. Just to get an idea for how much screen real estate it uses and such. This is not a problem with 'multitouch', it is a problem with 'touch'. If it's got a virtual keyboard I'd really like to see it up as part of the video. If it's got a physical KB then they did a fantastic job of hiding the thing while it wasn't being used. Does this device have a physical keyboard or a virtual one. That said I have several questions the video doesn't answer. This device is more closely related to an iPad than a desktop. The article you're referring to also makes a point of pointing out how *well* Linux is doing on portables.