{"id":14495,"date":"2010-08-17T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-17T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T12:38:00","slug":"ubuntu-gets-multi-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/14495-ubuntu-gets-multi-touch.html","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu gets multi-touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu&#8217;s next release will include support for multi-touch input. This follows the release of uTouch 1.0 by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu.<\/p>\n<p>Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth announced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markshuttleworth.com\/archives\/455\" target=\"_blank\">release of uTouch on his blog<\/a> this week, saying that the new touch technology would be included in the Maverick Meerkat (10.10) release scheduled for October: &#8220;I&#8217;m delighted that the first cut of Canonical&#8217;s UTouch framework has landed in Maverick and will be there for its release on 10.10.10.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>uTouch is a multi-touch framework that makes it possible to include touch and gesture controls to all aspects of the Ubuntu desktop, from the kernel through to desktop applications.<\/p>\n<p>Shuttleworth said that Canonical was currently targeting the Dell XT2 as a development environment so users with one of those machines could already get the benefit of multi-touch if they used the pre-release versions of Maverick.<\/p>\n<p>Shuttleworth said, however, that uTouch was designed to be more than just touch input. He said the design team had been &#8220;developing a &#8216;touch language&#8217; which goes beyond the work that we&#8217;ve seen elsewhere. Rather than single, magic gestures, we&#8217;re making it possible for basic gestures to be chained, or composed, into more sophisticated &#8216;sentences&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The growing popularity of mobile devices such as the tablet PCs, netbooks and smartbooks is making touch input highly desirable. Ubuntu already has a customised netbook version of its desktop OS available and by adding multi-touch support is hoping to make further inroads into the ultra-portable market.<\/p>\n<p>Canonical&#8217;s multi-touch support brings Linux in line with other major OS makers including Apple and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/259351-Ubuntu-uTouch\">Ubuntu uTouch<\/a><\/strong> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canonical releases uTouch to add multi-touch support. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}