The screen of N900 it have a feature few people know to use, as I saw none of the video recorded use this:
Imagine you want to flip to left workspace/desktop, put one finger on screen - better left side, hold there and quickly put another on its right of the screen, then raise the left one. See, thats how easy to quick switch, no need to against swipe resistance.
That's plain b-cuz N900's resistive touch screen, basically every resistive device has that. The movement emulates a fast "swipe" (when you put 2 fingers on a single-touch resistive screen, the actual action point is sitting in the middle)
Hmm, I thought the forum has only ~100 days to go b4 it's shut for good. Even devs come, 100 days would be a limit. And will they?
That's totally wrong! Please don't spread dis-information without knowing full facts!
By the end of this year, Nokia will give up on Maemo.org (including TMO) but there is a NFP being created which will continue to run this place...So it won't make too much of a difference to the common user here...
Isn't there some sort of hardware magic at the sides of the screen too? I think I read somewhere that it's also sensitive to the touch so swiping actually starts from the edge.
Not really, it's all software. The window manager just creates some fake "transparent"/InputOnly window over all the edges and detects drags that start from there. It would be trivially easy to reimplement (IMHO).
Not really, it's all software. The window manager just creates some fake "transparent"/InputOnly window over all the edges and detects drags that start from there. It would be trivially easy to reimplement (IMHO).
And AIUI it can be not a part of the WM even, maybe an application sitting on the top of all other windows could do the job too.
... 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.
Along these lines, does anyone know a command (terminal or dbus) to open the application menu?
I've searched and searched these forums and haven't come up with it. I was just sure I had read it somewhere before.
