Ubuntu Users Can be Touching, Tapping, and Sliding With Impending Update [Ubuntu]

Multitouch is landing in Ubuntu’s upcoming 10.10 release, with a specific eye on Unity, the netbook-optimized flavor of the favored Linux distribution. The recent features are expected to eventually support plenty of touch devices, including Apple’s Magic Trackpad.

Canonical, Ubuntu’s corporate parent, has already developed a software framework called uTouch, aimed toward simplifying the implementation of gestures. But initial touch functionality in 10.10 can be minimal at best, so much work is still done at some stage in making the Linux landscape touch-friendly-a role Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth hopes 3rd party programmers will look after. ” It’d be awesome to have touch-aware versions of the complete major apps-browser, email, file management, chat, photo management and media playback-for 11.04,” Shuttleworth conceded. ” But that depends upon you!” [Ars Technica]

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