[Under consideration] Spinning Zoom as universal Maemo gesture
 

Would be great to use the same gesture in maps app, image viewer, where it is feasible. Developers shouldn't be bothered to implement it, this gesture should be transparent to application.

http://europe.nokia.com/EUROPE_NOKIA...cs/07_zoom.jpg

Vote here:
http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...maemo_gesture/

Re: Spinning Zoom as universal Maemo gesture
 

Yup, simple idea, and would be very helpful :)

Re: Spinning Zoom as universal Maemo gesture
 

Great... looking forward to it being implemented.

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Sounds logical. Voted.

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Nice and simple idea. Voted;)

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what about additional gestures? what about having spinning as input method like for text size and not only zoom? I dont know if you are able to assign a function to the gesture yet; there is always another use case I can think of.

A topped framework accessible like buttons would be a very feature used by developers I think.

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Yes, great. I hope it would soon be possible at images and PDF Documents!

Voted...

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Actually, it would be much smarter (and imho easier) to implement the spinning gesture on a device driver level. it should simply send buttons 4 and 5 (mouse wheel up and down), just like synaptics touch pads would on edge-circular scrolling. That way it would be universally implemented and really any app would already have scrolling implemented using this spin gestures. Devs would then only need to care about remapping input for buttons 4 and 5 to zooming instead of scrolling.

But I'm unsure if the community has any influence on the touchpanel device driver.

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Yep good call - voted

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The spinning gesture should be made to work identically to "pinch-to-zoom" on Maemo 6. That way, applications will zoom consistently without modification between Maemo 5 and 6.

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Yeah, very good point.

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Contrary to solution #1, I really think it should work everywhere, be it only for the benefit of people with a weaker vision (think slightly older, say 50-65; that's an age bracket where you find high-level executives that can get the budget for an expensive device approved...).

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Having a general zoom functionality (schould it be rezizing of fonts or zooming in a lower level) would be an important stop towards accessibility. With the exception of the Browser, Maemo 5 is not usable for many people with (even light) visual impairments. Since I am in the "happy" position to be one of those poeple (need a huge magnifying glass for the description Text in application manager) I would be VERRY THANKFUL for a solution. The zoom function of compiz on PCs is a great exsample how this can work.

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Disagree, I don't want it in paint-like apps :)

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It'd likely be optional in developer built apps anyway. But it'd be nice to see it standard across Nokia apps (email, RSS feed reader, etc..)

Re: [Under consideration] Spinning Zoom as universal Maemo gesture
 

this is a great feature i have seen it on iphone very useful

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Yup, having this in a paint app could occasionally result in a mess.

BTW, I hope this will be available in maemo since you can't zoom wit one hand unless you're superman.

"Pinch zooming" is a gimmick on cellphones anyway and it's copied from microsoft that proposed it for larger displays.