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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
AAARRRGGHHH!!!

<Rant Mode> It's true, zooming photos or web-pages requires more than one finger! Why? Because Steve Jobs said that it does. Therefore, it is a natural law, followed by all of humanity without question.

Wow, it was such a burden back in the days before capacitive screens, when all us poor computer users had to break out our magnifying glasses in order to view small pictures or read tiny text. I mean, we had all sorts of ways of interacting with our computers, such as clicking buttons, moving pointers, pressing keys, and touching screens, but _none_ of these were of any use at all! No, we had to use TWO FINGERS in order to zoom, and since we weren't using any input devices that recognized TWO FINGERS, nobody ever zoomed anything. Ever. </Rant Mode>

Sorry, this just really makes me tear my hair out every time I hear it...
Did you even read literally the next sentence I wrote?

"You could put buttons in there to zoom in/out, but then why are you using Sailfish?"

Besides, as I said, there are other things than that pinch-to-zoom stuff that you would use multitouch for. Holding the Shift key on the keyboard, for example.