Touch

Settings and perhaps instruction for common touch and multitouch operations. Should provide a complete set of configuration options for touch screen devices. Must also be able to coexist with Touchpad settings, as found in Mouse and Touchpad.

Participants

AllanDay

Objectives

  • Allow discovery of multitouch gestures for touchscreens and touchpads.
  • Allow configuration of gestures:
    • Adjust for physical ability.
    • Adjust for hardware capabilities/sensitivity.

Relevant Art

OS X Leopard

osx-leopard-trackpad-prefs.png

OS X Lion

osx-lion-trackpad-prefs1.png

osx-lion-trackpad-prefs2.png

osx-lion-trackpad-prefs3.png

iOS

iOS-4-3-multitouch-prefs.png

Elementary OS

danrabbit-mouse-and-touchpad.png

Discussion

Include a test area?

What is the relationship to mouse and touchpad settings?

Possible settings to include:

  • Touchpad: tap to click, nautural scrolling, two finger scroll
  • Touchscreen - long press delay

An initial review of some of the options to be provided by this panel:

Action

Options

Touchpad

Touchscreen

Tap to click - Single tap

On/Off

Don't include

Secondary click - Long press

On/Off, sensitivity slider

Sensitivity slider

Scrolling - Two finger scrolling

On/Off

Don't include

Zoom - Move two fingers together

On/Off

On/Off

Rotate - Move two fingers in a circle

On/Off

On/Off

Switch Application - Swipe left or right with three fingers

On/Off

On/Off

Switch Workspace - Swipe up or down with three fingers

On/Off

On/Off

Activities Overview - Swipe down with four fingers?

On/Off

On/Off

Messaging Tray - Swipe up with four fingers?

On/Off

On/Off

Tentative Guidelines

Comments

Design/SystemSettings/Touch (last edited 2015-07-09 16:36:36 by AllanDay)