maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Implement / emmulate / port Swipe UI N9 to Maemo5 N900 ?

	pelago	2011-07-12 , 13:06
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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur

You don't need touch sensitive edges. You just need *proper* gesture detection. E.G. MicroB - you CAN get the swipe from right/left gestures to work just fine in portrait mode. It's just harder to get the touch to come in from "off screen" with so little room on the 'top' and 'bottom' edge.

So long as the gesture is recognized as "from-very-edge-of-screen-inwards" it's going to be virtually indestinguishable to the end-user.

So, does anyone know if it's possible to write a daemon or similar for Maemo 5 that would allow detection (system-wide) of the "swipe in from outside edge" gesture? That is, something that would detect that gesture and not pass it onto the app, so that the app didn't scroll for example. As a start, we don't necessarily need the fancy transition effect, just something that will detect that gesture and then bring up the app launcher or task switcher or desktop.

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