just watch and grin… broadly :)
Watch this.
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August 18th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
Woohoo. Remind me how many decades you’ve been able to do this on Windows?
August 18th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
This makes me think we should make an official video promo like this, except have that real thing on his desk get knocked over by a window he threw off the screen
Then it takes the guy 5 seconds to realize "wait.. that shouldn’t be possible!", followed up with some catchy tag line.
A few years ago, one of my last high school classes was art. I was drawing something with pencil, and just made a line I didn’t like. I tapped Ctrl-Z on the desk. 5 seconds later, I thought "wow. How did I think that would work?" - it was just instinct. But the bigger question is, if it _had_ worked, how long would it have taken me to realize what really happened?
August 18th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
me thinks he needs smaller fingers… and a shirt, but cooooooool.
August 19th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
Now combine this with an MPX enabled X sever
August 19th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
@ Slevin: Of course, stuff like that is in my head all the time!
August 27th, 2006 at 9:25 am
I love the work done with XGL/Compiz but I think that this video only shows 2 minutes and 41 seconds of total waste of productivity. It seems quite a pain for the guy to even close a window… so I guess advertising clips for XGL/Compiz should wait for the touch screen technology to be really precise and unpainful. We have already some really good demos with the ol’ good mouse.
August 27th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
@ ToF: The main issue I see there is that the sizes of the widgets are obviously not set to be "compatible" with the thick fingers (compared to the one-pixel hot-spot of the mouse pointer). Still it makes it very clear to me that once something like MPX finds its way into Xorg I’ll probably be able to get my own home-grown "multi-pointer touch input-device" easily setup for working with lowfat. This is what go me excited mainly when seeing this video initially. Remember I want to get away from typical UI-widgets myself in the long run. Considering the fact, that a normal Gnome-desktop is not designed for being operated by a finger-thick "pointer" it works very well already imo.